Recording and editing in HD

londonman81

I am about to hire a video camera which can record in HD, for a wedding.

Ideally, I would like to record in HD (1080i) onto a HD miniDV tape and create output which will play back in HD on a HD TV.

However, I have heard that:

1. The file size resulting from a HD miniDV is very large making editing difficult.

2. Output video will have to be put onto a Blue Ray disc.

Since I would like the video to be future-proof (as much as possible), I am very keen to record in HD.

My questions: how easy is it to edit HD output? how much PC space does it require? even if i record in HDV and decide to hold onto the tapes for editing in future when the technology/cost is more feasible can I still make a standard-def version of the video as well?

Any help appreciated.

timmmers

HD is for tellys Your PC can easily beat that now. The resolution on a bog srandard lappie beats most tellys hands down, refresh rate too.

What does your camcorder do now to store recordings? Blueray?

Editing is more complex, but every TV and movie you see was edited and most were probably edited using Premiere by Adobe ...whcih Google will tell you is a bit rich for a few wedding vids. Not a thing for a n00b editor really either.

Blueray wrtiers are coming on fast and offer juicy storage, but you can store large files in zip format easily by splitting the file into parts easily enough.

What do you mean by editing? Cutting, adding transitions, or some kind of effects ?

Whatever you can shoot can be stored ...that's something to not worry about.
Always get and keep the best quality you can ...so you can play later if required, with a good end product. You can't make crap photos or videos better.

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Don't forget dual layer DVDs /

Marty_J

timmmers wrote: »

HD is for tellys Your PC can easily beat that now. The resolution on a bog srandard lappie beats most tellys hands down, refresh rate too.

Really?

The resolution on a "bog standard" laptop is 1920x1080 or more?

What does your camcorder do now to store recordings? Blueray?

"Ideally, I would like to record in HD (1080i) onto a HD miniDV tape"

Editing is more complex, but every TV and movie you see was edited and most were probably edited using Premiere by Adobe ...whcih Google will tell you is a bit rich for a few wedding vids. Not a thing for a n00b editor really either.

Most were probably edited using Avid or Apple Final Cut Pro.

Whatever you can shoot can be stored ...that's something to not worry about.

Always get and keep the best quality you can ...so you can play later if required, with a good end product. You can't make crap photos or videos better.

Agreed. Shoot and edit in HD. You can convert it for DVD and still keep your original HD version for the future.

BillScarab

Londonman81, I'm looking into this at the moment as I'm planning to buy a HD Camcorder (Panasonic SD10).

That records in AVCHD which seems to be the new standard and uses SD cards rather than tape. Everything I've read suggests that to edit HD footage you're going to need a high spec machine. Preferably a Quad Core and at least 4Gb of RAM. I know how long it can take to play with SD video and can believe it's going to be a long process editing HD.

If you get a camcorder that supports AVCHD apparently you can covnert it to a format you can burn to a DVD in HD and Blu-Ray players will read it and display in HD on your TV. At least that method saves the cost of a Blu-Ray burner for your PC.

BTW an advantage of a camcoder that uses SD cards instead of tape is that you can copy the files to your Computer much more quickly as it doesn't have to be done in real time.

Another issue with HD content is finding editors that support it properly.