Re: HDV

[paulingvarsson(at)mac.com]

That's a very Icelandic name Magnus, hopefully a fellow icelander on DS in London?!

HDV cannot be used directly in DS without a converter box from Miranda or Convergent Design that act as a HDV bridge to convert the firewire out of the HDV deck into HDSDI and 422 deck control.  They are still buggy to use by all accounts and are difficult to get hold of (not from personal experience - just word of mouth)

I'm under the impression that it's very tricky to transfer the HDV tapes to Digibeta and retain the timecode of the HDV tapes... Are you sure the HDV and digi timecodes match??

Some transfer houses are downconverting from HDV to COMPOSITE onto Digibeta, which of course looks appauling, but when HDV is transferred COMPONENT to digi it does look quite amazing for such a small camera - approaching Digi on well lit scenes.

Last word of warning - did he definitely shoot in HDV mode and not DVCAM?  Because if he did, all this is academic!

Paul




On 11 Jan 2006, at 11:00, Magnus Chisholm wrote:

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> Has anybody on the list ever worked with HDV footage in DS. I have a client who has shot on HDV and bounced it on to Digi Beta for the offline. He was going to online on our SD Adrenaline but he thinks the Digi Betas were transferred badly and wants to go back to the original HDV tapes and conform it HD in DS. Can DS take in native HDV? If not then any workflow suggestions would be appreciated.
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