DVD Dailies

Hey:

Anyone out there have an efficient workflow for creating DVD Dailies?
Footage is being downconverted to DVCAM from DVCPRO HD. What's
the most efficient way time wise to do this? Any help or ideas would
be greatly appreciated. I just have have miles of footage and don't
want to do a realtime capture if there's a shortcut.

Thanks for your help.

Best,
Stephen

You need to output the current edit sequence and encode it to MPEG-2 to put onto a settop playable DVD.

THe encode times can be very long - depending on the content. Miles of footage sounds like it will take hundreds of hours to encode?

Are you talking about replacing the tapes accessability with DVD content accessability? Then you would want to archive the files on a data DVD.

DVD dailies are usually done in iDVD for quick turnaround to the producer/director for viewing the next morning.

Unless you get those miles of footage off the tapes, how can you use them?

We play the footage out hot/real time to a desktop stand-alone DVD burner.

Total time, slightly longer than the length of the show. Quality, slightly less than a real authoring, but what you lose in quality, you more than make up in speed. While the authoring people are still managing their resources, we're making DVD copies for the whole production team.

You do need to find a desk top burner that gets the video levels right. They don't all. That and a multiple DVD burner duplicator stack helps.

Koz

Use iLife 5 and iMovie and iDVD use magic movie super simple and make sure your prefs are set to best performance in iDVD