HD For Indies

Studio Monthly | Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

I continue to be more and more impressed with Studio Monthly as I come across more articles from them. This one talks about the detailed steps involved in offline and online editing and mastering of a half hour show shot on HD and HDV. They skip over a couple of steps I'd like more granular detail on (timecode issues when downconverting HDV to DV, timecode matchback issues when recapturing HD?), and run into some problems that are (supposedly) fixed now (Media Manager 1 frame retimed shots for instance). But this is a nice overview of how to tackle these kinds of projects.

I'm growing increasingly curious as to whether, with a robust machine like a Quad G5, it is acceptably speedy to offline in HD. Some of my recent research has been to quantify what is and isn't realtime on various machines and various formats.

-mike