{"id":618,"date":"2007-08-29T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2007-08-29T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T10:01:00","slug":"hdv-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/hdv-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"HDV is a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may that HDV is a bad format for editing; I&#8217;ve heard it from a few different places. Why? Long conform times before final output, effectively like you&#8217;ve put an effect over the whole movie and need to render it all. Also a reduced colour space, though no different to DV PAL. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.larryjordan.biz\/articles\/lj_hdv_learn.html\">Larry Jordan says as much<\/a>, but look for Graeme Nattress&#8217;s comment near the bottom.) You may also hear a recommendation to re-encode as DVCProHD or ProRes 422. Don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>Import as HDV. Edit as HDV. Apply transitions with native HDV, but don&#8217;t bother rendering unless you have to. You&#8217;ll get the image quality of an online for editing with the storage space of DV.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to colour correct and actually finish the thing for broadcast, transcode now, at the end of the process, to ProRes 422 or some other lightly compressed format. You&#8217;ll get better quality results (recompressing to HDV can indeed be ugly) but you won&#8217;t have to capture the whole thing in ProRes 422 (at 4x the space) or DVCProHD (at reduced quality).<\/p>\n<p>The golden rule: you can&#8217;t get better quality video than you captured. Transcoding never increases image quality, though it can increase the stability of the existing image quality.<\/p>\n<p>The exception to the rule: capturing live video from the HDMI port of many HDV cameras avoids HDV compression entirely, giving you a full colour space free from artifacts. The problem is that you&#8217;re tethered to a computer with fast hard drives and\/or an AJA I\/O box. There is no point if you&#8217;ve already recorded to HDV tape.<\/p>\n<p>The good news: Canon&#8217;s HV 20 captures 1080p25 in a 1080i50 stream, with cine-like gamma for increased dynamic range, for AU$1999 RRP. Fantastic image quality for a (comparatively) tiny price.<\/p>\n<p>Sample images from the HV 20, shot by me at home in Australia. No extra lighting or lenses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/pics\/kookaburra1.jpg\">http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/pics\/kookaburra1.jpg<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/pics\/kookaburra2.jpg\">http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/pics\/kookaburra2.jpg<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/pics\/possum1.jpg\">http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/pics\/possum1.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may that HDV is a bad format for editing; I&#8217;ve heard it from a few different places. Why? Long conform times before final output, effectively like you&#8217;ve put an effect over the whole movie and need to render it all. Also a reduced colour space, though no different to DV PAL. (Larry Jordan says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/hdv-is-a-good-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HDV is a good thing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}