Teranex Conversion Workflow
Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 7:56 am
Hi all!
I'm working on my own documentary in which i'll be using a lot of archived footage which was shot mostly by amateurs during the time from 2005 to 2011. I've got a huge amount of footage available but the variation in frame rates, PAR's, resolution and codecs is vast. (It's a big mess )
To make it workable i was thinking if making a batch list and putting it through a Teranex standards conversion and putting a recorder behind that, possibly a HyperDeck. This way i'm hoping to force all footage to be in the same frame rate, PAR and resolution (HD or if it works out all the way op to 4K to have some cropping room)
Now what i couldn't figure out is how to easily set up the input. Dealing with all these different formats makes it difficult. I believe to understand that HyperDeck does not play back most delivery formats (AVI, WMV, MPG) and most stand alone media players use built in upscalers which i'd like to avoid to let Teranex to the upscaling. The Blackmagic Media Express software also doesn't output these messy formats. Do i have to use an UltraStudio with some editing software to play out a sequence containing the raw footage?
If possible i would prefer to convert the footage clip by clip instead of ending with a single huge file.
Did anyone here try to do this before and used this BMD workflow? Of should i search for an alternative way of achieving this?
Thank you very much!
Bas
I'm working on my own documentary in which i'll be using a lot of archived footage which was shot mostly by amateurs during the time from 2005 to 2011. I've got a huge amount of footage available but the variation in frame rates, PAR's, resolution and codecs is vast. (It's a big mess )
To make it workable i was thinking if making a batch list and putting it through a Teranex standards conversion and putting a recorder behind that, possibly a HyperDeck. This way i'm hoping to force all footage to be in the same frame rate, PAR and resolution (HD or if it works out all the way op to 4K to have some cropping room)
Now what i couldn't figure out is how to easily set up the input. Dealing with all these different formats makes it difficult. I believe to understand that HyperDeck does not play back most delivery formats (AVI, WMV, MPG) and most stand alone media players use built in upscalers which i'd like to avoid to let Teranex to the upscaling. The Blackmagic Media Express software also doesn't output these messy formats. Do i have to use an UltraStudio with some editing software to play out a sequence containing the raw footage?
If possible i would prefer to convert the footage clip by clip instead of ending with a single huge file.
Did anyone here try to do this before and used this BMD workflow? Of should i search for an alternative way of achieving this?
Thank you very much!
Bas