Spent the day converting, editing, compressing and uploading footage from our performances at Indigo. The set up for this is not exactly ideal. The documentation consists of live footage shot with my NTSC miniDV camera and output from my mixer recorded onto DVD+R with Michael's PAL DVD recorder.
The NTSC footage is captured and then converted to PAL using Graeme Nattress' Standards Conversion. Even on my dual processor 2.5 GHz G5 this takes about four times realtime. An hour of footage takes roughly four hours to convert. The DVD recorder is a little more straight forward. Miraizon's Cinematize is used to extract PAL DV files from the multiplexed streams on the DVD. All of the footage can then be worked on in a standard PAL DV sequence in Final Cut Pro without an extra hassles.
Once the sequences for each performance are complete, they are exported as ISMA compliant MPEG4 files at 320x240 resolution. I have also begun exporting the sequences as full PAL resolution MPEG2 to expedite archiving and allow us to easily produce a DVD for broadcast.
The NTSC footage is captured and then converted to PAL using Graeme Nattress' Standards Conversion. Even on my dual processor 2.5 GHz G5 this takes about four times realtime. An hour of footage takes roughly four hours to convert. The DVD recorder is a little more straight forward. Miraizon's Cinematize is used to extract PAL DV files from the multiplexed streams on the DVD. All of the footage can then be worked on in a standard PAL DV sequence in Final Cut Pro without an extra hassles.
Once the sequences for each performance are complete, they are exported as ISMA compliant MPEG4 files at 320x240 resolution. I have also begun exporting the sequences as full PAL resolution MPEG2 to expedite archiving and allow us to easily produce a DVD for broadcast.
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