HDV solutions
Affordable, high-quality HDV cameras are putting the power of HD into the hands of independent filmmakers, event videographers, corporations, schools, and students. But HDV achieves its remarkable efficiency at a price: Long-GOP (Group of Pictures) MPEG-2 compression is not engineered for post production, and image quality breaks down quickly over multiple generations and compositing. Avid has elevated HDV to a true post production format, and make it possible to take a project all the way from HDV to cinema-quality output .
Solution: Native HDV editing
If you can't edit HDV in its native format, time- and disk-consuming transcoding to intermediate media files erases the advantages of ultra-efficient HDV. That means real-time editing with no transcoding, real-time HD effects, and real-time Avid multicamera editing in HD. Learn more.
Solution: Open Timeline
Only Avid allows multiple formats to be edited on the same timeline, in real time, with no rendering or transcoding on the way in. For example, you can drag-and-drop native long-GOP MPEG HDV and interlaced DVCPRO HD-two very different kinds of HD video-and start editing. Only Avid lets you mix HD and SD footage on the same timeline, in real time. Combine multiple sources in your HDV projects without converting to a common format first. Or take advantage of real-time multicam editing with both HD and SD footage in the same clip group, in real time, with no transcoding or rendering. Learn more about Avid's Open Technology platform. [read whitepaper]
Solution: HD Total Conform
HD Total Conform between Avid editing and finishing systems means one thing: every edit, dissolve, effect, and composite is perfectly re-created, so you can focus on finishing with industry-leading secondary color correction and universal mastering to NTSC, PAL, and other standard formats. Avid DS Nitris and Avid Symphony Nitris finishing systems offer true real-time performance all the way up to uncompressed 10-bit HD. Render less for even more high-profit productivity.
Solution: Avid DNxHD encoding
HDV cameras use "Long GOP" compression to reduce bandwidth. This process can make even simple, "cuts-only" postproduction difficult because the intervals between individual frames are obscured, and image quality breaks down quickly over multiple generations. Avid DNxHD encoding maintains original camera quality during postproduction, including multi-layer and multi-generation compositing, titles, and graphics-and lets you get better results with HDV media in a postproduction environment.
Every solution begins with a question. Avid Professional Services can provide the answers. For more information, please contact Patrick Murphy at 978-275-2044.