Mixing JVC 720p25 and Sony 1080i in same project

Question

Mixing JVC 720p25 and Sony 1080i in same project

Hi,

I am about to start editing a documentary that was shot using a JVC GY HD100 camera using 720P25 and a sony camera using 1080i (interlaced)PAL.
I captured all the JVC footage using LUMIER and the sony directly into FCP.
What I want to know is what is the best sequence settings to use, so that I can edit both in the same timeline.and have the best result.
I dexumed the m2t JVC footage and encoded it using Apple intermediate codec.
any ideas?

Thanks

2XG5 Quad, G5 Dual 2.0, PB 17 1.33mhz, MBP 1.8, Mac OS X (10.4.6), Lots of RAm and lots of external drives, SATA and Firewire 800

Posted on Sep 23, 2006 1:57 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Sep 23, 2006 9:34 AM in response to Antonio Forjaz

I think I'd take the JVC footage and use Compressor to turn it to 1080i50... which matches what you shot with the other camera. Then use the Easy setup for 1080i50... This keeps you in HDV however. DVCPROHD would be faster editing especially with a run of the mill Mac.. which mac are you running?

I think the intermediate codec loses quality...

What is your intended delivery format? Tape? DVD? or?

Jerry

Reply

Answer 2

Sep 24, 2006 7:38 AM in response to Jerry Hofmann

Hi,

I am using a quad with 6 gig ram
but if I do that don't i loose quality from the jvc footage?
may be go the other way, then I can crop the 1080 footage accordingly?
I intend to deliver in DV and DVD.
Thanks for the response, it seems not many people know what I am trying to do. But the director/camera man shot the documentary using both cameras, the Sony for underwater stuff and the JVC for interviews and other out of water stuff.

Reply

Answer 3

Sep 24, 2006 8:07 AM in response to Antonio Forjaz

I think that no matter which way to end up, it will cost some quality recompressing one to the other...really doesn't matter I suppose that much. Getting them to the same format is where you need to get... by the time you compress an SD signal, It's all pretty much a moot point.

Jerry

Reply