If you own this cam please advise me. I do weddings and Sweetfifteens. I used full HDV30f, (good lighting conditions) captured as HDV, edited in FCS2 exported as AppleProRes and burned a 2hour video, but quality is not as good as I thought. I noticed that the captured HDV material didn't used more hard drive than my regular minidv (12-13G/hour). When exporting as AppleProRes then I got 104G for the 2hour video. (exporting the QTmovie as AppleProRes took 5 hours, about 12times more than regular minidv projects)
Maybe I understand the long time when working with HDV, but am I loosing quality capturing as HDV? (because of the space used I mean) I also know 2 hour video is a lot.
Should I tried to capture as AppleProRes somehow? (I tried, no success)
Any other ideas to get the best out of this little nice cam? Thanks!
Johnny
G5, 10.5, dual2, 4ram, FCS2
This is how I captured(recommendation from someone who has the same cam and same problem capturing as ProRes:
Easy Setup: Format: HDV, 29.97fps, Audio&VideoSettings: SequencePreset: AppleIntermediateCodec1080i60, CapturePreset: HDV, DevicecontrolPreset: HDVFirewire
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