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Topic: Super8 conversion to HDV
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Hanspeter Tschupp
Junior
Posts: 4
From: Clearwater, FL, USA
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted December 20, 2005 11:03 PM
Thanks for all the helpful inputs.
Stig: You might be correct, the stereo sound was made in post. Back in the eighties I lived in Switzerland and had a Bauer T600 which was an excellent quiet projector.
No I got the Sankyo 800 which is fine and works well for waht I'm doing. Xenon would be better, but I don't know if there is a mod for the 800.
The sound routing is as follows:
The Sankyo 800 has 2 line outputs on the backside with 3.5mm jacks. I use those and route the signal into my Korg D32XD which is a sound-processor/hard disk recorder. From there I feed the HDR-FX1 with a line input signal in manual recording mode. I use a couple of digital filters as needed, before I feed the sound into the camera.
Once recorded, I use either Final Cut Pro or Premiere 1.51 with the AspectHD plug in. Capturing and editing in HD is easy.
Since I'm going to mix some movies with real HDV shots, I don't know how I will handle the aspect ratio. I didn't measure it, but I think Super8 has somewhat 4:3 while 16:9 is used for HDV. I might record all movie twice, once "zooming" in to the Super 8 projection having some top and bottom parts stripped and also filming the full screen which leaves two black areas to the side.
See this Picture:
I did not start with the recording yet. Currently I'm playing around with the white balance.
Douglas: Thanks for your hint, especially regarding the white balance. I'll try it out.
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