Mum and I are in South Africa to document the life and times of my great grandfather, Vincent Lawrence (1872-1965). Lawrence worked with Gandhi when the Mahatma was first starting out in South Africa, and he was also involved in the struggle against apartheid, and helped found St. Anthony's Church in Durban.
Well, at the moment, I am really regretting shooting my footage in the 24p HDV mode on my HV20. I had originally chosen to shoot in the 24p mode, because I wanted to get the most "film like" look I could for the project. However, I've since discovered that this makes for a really nasty work flow, such that I have to capture the footage in Final Cut Pro 6, and then send it to Compressor to have it de-interlaced, etc., as per this apple workflow. Unfortunately, Compressor seems to crash when I give it too many files to process, and the processing is very slow, and the processed files take up a lot of hard disk space. I wish now that I had just shot the footage in either regular HD, or even just SD. Life would be a lot easier...
Anyway, there's nothing to do now but figure a work-around. I've been on the Canon HV20 Users Forum looking for solutions. But so far, the news isn't very good. I think my best option may be to log the tape, and then only capture the footage I need, and then send those short clips to compressor. This puts a bunch of the work of deciding what footage to use at the front of the work flow, which isn't my first choice, and, I don't seem to have any other option...
The good news: Dad has been sitting with me while I watch the footage. I find it a lot easier to watch the raw footage with him.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
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