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Hi,i have a small editing unit NLE and i use Edius 3.5 Pro for editing and Fusion5 for compositing and fx and most of my work is Tv programs & ads And music video clips but i have a question :
Can i get professional quality colors & picture using Fusion for complex chroma keying and compositing and Edius for editing Knowing that i use only standard DV tapes for Input and final output throgh IEEE ? Is this doable if not what do i need (i have a small budget)?
Please answer my question i dont know any place else to find the answer !!No.
Mainly because unless your work is very stylised the dv-cam footage will look like video and thus not full professional quality. Part of this is just the lens. Most dv gear is consumer or proconsumer and the lens are just not as good as professional lens.
Can you get good quality – considering it is shot on mini-dv ?
Yes
Fusion is great and can do outstanding feature film grade work (and daily does!) – and most NLE can cut (editing is less defined in by the gear since a cut is a cut).
But the quality of well shot 35mm is going to look superior to mini-dv, it is just a fact. Having said that – if the look is stylied or ‘reality’ then yes mini-dv is fine. Keying is actually harder off mini-dv than film – but it can be done.Mike
A good example, go check out Danny Boyle’s “28 days”, that was shot all in 24p on the AG-DVX100. It looks damn good for dv, but it is still nowhere close to film.
Can you afford a HDV camera/deck to output your work?
I know it still compresses to 4:2:0, never the less it is true High Def. and even if you output to SD it will have better resolution, plus the lenses on those camera are better.
E.g. SONY uses Carl Zeiss Vario Sonar T lenses and I think Matsushita products use Leica lenses…
So even though it would not be Film, or CineAlta Digital Cinema you will see an improvement
I wouldn’t recommend HDV for chroma keying, as the long-gop compression can be more difficult to work with than 4:1:1 DV.
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