Please Help 16:9, xl2, & AG-DVX100B questions!
hello all!
we are about to purchase two xl2's and one panasonic Panasonic AG-DVX100B.
our goal is to do multi-cam wedding shoots (we've done them for awhile...w e're just about to upgrade our tech seirously)
anyways - our final output hope - is a 16:9 dvd.
The xl2's shoot native 16:9 - the panasonic shoots a squeezed footage... I have two questions (you might see where I'm going already...)
1) how bad is the quality drop going to be for the panasonic? If i'm editing in a true 16:9 sequence... i'm assuming I'm going to have to stretch the panasonic's signal. or am I wrong? Does the panasonic create a file that is truly 16:9? (any owners out there?)
2) we did some test shooting in 16:9 on a friends xl2. I imported the 16:9 footage using a capture preset I created. in the presets - i told it to capture 852 x 480 (16:9 - if my math is correct....) heres the problem. the file that it imports is always 720 x 480... any thoughts as to why? I'm not importing on the xl2 - i'm using an old cam as a deck... would that cause it to not import the right size?
3) if I'm importing that incorrectly... whats the right way to go about this? I don't want to work on a 4:3 sequence - and output a 4:3 file - if I can help it. I want to cater to those who have widescreen tvs... in otherwords - i don't want to create fake widescreen!
any thoughts would be wonderfully appreciated. Thank you!
Brett
we are about to purchase two xl2's and one panasonic Panasonic AG-DVX100B.
our goal is to do multi-cam wedding shoots (we've done them for awhile...w e're just about to upgrade our tech seirously)
anyways - our final output hope - is a 16:9 dvd.
The xl2's shoot native 16:9 - the panasonic shoots a squeezed footage... I have two questions (you might see where I'm going already...)
1) how bad is the quality drop going to be for the panasonic? If i'm editing in a true 16:9 sequence... i'm assuming I'm going to have to stretch the panasonic's signal. or am I wrong? Does the panasonic create a file that is truly 16:9? (any owners out there?)
2) we did some test shooting in 16:9 on a friends xl2. I imported the 16:9 footage using a capture preset I created. in the presets - i told it to capture 852 x 480 (16:9 - if my math is correct....) heres the problem. the file that it imports is always 720 x 480... any thoughts as to why? I'm not importing on the xl2 - i'm using an old cam as a deck... would that cause it to not import the right size?
3) if I'm importing that incorrectly... whats the right way to go about this? I don't want to work on a 4:3 sequence - and output a 4:3 file - if I can help it. I want to cater to those who have widescreen tvs... in otherwords - i don't want to create fake widescreen!
any thoughts would be wonderfully appreciated. Thank you!
Brett
powermac g5, Mac OS X (10.4.10), final cut pro 5.0.4