Odd question here. A director is asking me about some b-roll footage shot with no supervision out on the east coast.
The director is not very tech savvy and from his description of the situation I am guessing the footage was shot with an HDSLR, although
which one I don't know. The shooter sent a list of formats he could convert to but the list seemed odd to me in a way I thought
indicated the shooter really didn't know what he or she was doing.
So I told the director to just have the footage copied to a hard drive as is and we will figure out the conversion here.
Then the shooter came back and mentioned something about using a Canopus and that the 16:9 original files will be squeezed to 3:4 and
will have to be reformatted to 16:9 here.
Does anyone here understand why the footage needs to go through a Canopus and the files can't be simply copied to a drive?
Is this a particular and peculiar workflow for a specific camera?
The only Canopus boxes I see for sale on B&H are standard def only. So it sounds like he is bent on converting the stuff to SD even though
the show is HD.
Thanks for any information!