Panasonic hmc150 footage to dvd

David, thanks for clarifying. Since I mostly do SD DVD's your comments and critical eye is very helpful. I think the dilemma for folks is the two cameras (HMC150 and HPX170) share a lot of features and components but are $1,500 apart in price.
 
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Barry_Green said:
AVCHD stomps HDV, yes. But then again so does DVCPRO-HD.

HDV is used in $300 to $6,000 prosumer camcorders. DVCPRO-HD is used in the VariCam, the HPX2000, HPX3000, HPX3700, etc. (It's also used in the HPX170/HVX200A range, yes, but it extends way higher up the line than HDV does in any other manufacturer's range).

HDV is limited to 15% of a program's acquistion and isn't allowed for ANY editing or mastering at Discovery HD, whereas DVCPRO-HD is accepted for unlimited acqusition, editing, and final delivery.

DVCPRO-HD is Panasonic's equivalent to HDCAM. Sony has many formats that they consider lower quality than HDCAM. HDV is the lowest-quality HD recording format ever produced. Formats that Sony ranks inbetween HDCAM and HDV would include AVCHD, XDCAM-HD, and XDCAM-EX.

DVCPRO-HD is about as good as it gets in common use in the HD world. To get better than DVCPRO-HD, you'd have to go to HDCAM-SR or HD-D5.
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Barry,

Thanks for explaining - good to know DVCPRO-HD is such a widely accepted format :).
 
best sd workflow from hmc 150

best sd workflow from hmc 150

Hi all,

understand that there are various methods to edit hmc footage to sd dvd.
whats is the fastest method to edit and burn into sd footage?
 
Mac osx 10.5.7, FCP 6.0.6. looking for fastest workflow for project on the day itself.
currently we are converting to sd resolution, before we start to edit in sd sequence.
 
There is no hardware acceleration at all.

However, BitVice 2.7 is a pretty fast encoder.

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There is a demo version as well.

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You can get some pretty fast encodes and it will reduce HD footage to SD faster than Compressor.

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I really don't have anything relevant to add to the discussion, I just wanted to say, thanks. I'm really enjoying all of the information I'm getting from reading this discussion.
 
David S.

You never mentioned whether, or not you transcoded the AVCCAM footage, or imported it natively into an NLE like Premiere CS4. Obviously transcoding the AVCCAM footage would result in some quality degradation even before you began the MPEG-2 encoding.
 
Try using toast 10 to convert the file to SD 10bit uncompress sd for editing . at least i skip the process of log and transfer for fcp .
 
Would Cineform Neo Scene help with any of this? It upscales to 4:2:2, my final product is to SD DVD as well. Working with iMovie 09 until I can afford FCP.
 
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