FCP-L: Re: [FCP-L] Re: HDV Question

Friday, October 23, 2009

Re: [FCP-L] Re: HDV Question

I deliver two shows a week to Discovery (Investigation Discovery) that
are shot on HDV. I get a hit every 2 seconds on our recreations.
Interviews, with NO movement, fine. But recreations are off the
charts. They TOO go through the Discovery QC... but they "forgive"
these HDV artifacts, as they know there is nothing to be done.

Odd, they never "forgave" beta hits. Always had to spend thousands or
hundreds fixing those.

We output to HDCAM SR.

-shane

On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:02 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:

> Wow I did 60 half hour episodes on HDV a couple years ago and I
> didn't have but two or 3 tape hits for the entire season. I was
> quite surprised and happy. These shows went through Discovery level
> QC so they had to be technically correct. I was using the HVR-1500
> which is the only deck to use for HDV unless you are dealing with
> the newer native progressive stuff. I guess the offline guys might
> have avoided shots with drop outs but that's usually not the case
> these days. I get shots all the time that are just plain wrong with
> iris shifts etc... that should have never been used so I doubt that
> series was any different. I was more surprised than anyone that the
> format worked so painlessly. I'm not debating image quality here
> just technical drop outs etc... It beat the heck out of fixing all
> the long interval drop outs from BetaSP from my experience.
>
> --- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, Shane Ross <comeback@...> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, well, acceptable by some networks. Which is bad because the
> hits
> > I see on GDV put hits on betasp tapes to shame. I have been forced
> to
> > work with it for nearly a year. Even converted to prores doesn't
> help.
> > The damage has already been done.
> >
> > Shane
> >
> > Scent frum my iFone.
> >
> >
> > On Oct 22, 2009, at 6:23 AM, tcurren <tcurren@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:23:14 AM, Pat wrote:
> > >
> > > HDV is suitable for acquisition
> > > That's debatable. Crappy format if ever there was one. :-(
> > > --
> > > Terence Curren
> > > Burbank, CA
> > > www.alphadogs.tv
> > > www.digitalservicestation.com
> > >
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