How to mix BM Pocket and BMCC - Workflow

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Felix Steinhardt

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How to mix BM Pocket and BMCC - Workflow

PostThu Jul 11, 2013 3:07 pm

Hi,

my current RAW workflow is:
1. Creating proxies, cutting, etc.
2. Back in Resolve I import my XML from Premiere and render out graded 2400 x 1350 DPX image sequences.
3. I replace my proxies with the DPX files in Premiere, denoise and sharpen with Neat Video and render out to any format I need. For now it´s always 1920x1080 or PAL DVD but, who knows, maybe in the furure I need to make a DCP compliant render like 1998 x 1080 or 2048 x 858. That´s why I stay at 2400 x 1350 until the end and not 1920 x 1080.

So with the pocket camera it gets comlicated. It does only record 1920 x 1080. What is the best way to handle this. At the moment I think of upscaling the 1080p from the pocket to 2.5k like the BMCC, either done by resolve or by rescaling in Premiere.

But that would mean 1080 -> 2.5k -> 1080. That doesn´t sound to good quality wise.

Any sugesstions? :)
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Re: How to mix BM Pocket and BMCC - Workflow

PostFri Jul 12, 2013 7:10 am

When you come back from Resolve, make your master project in premiere @ 2.5k

When you output to 2k for cinema, copy the whole project to a new 2k timeline and do a "fit timeline size"
When you output to DVD or Bluray, do the same in new SD or HD timelines..

Make sure to check the best quality button fro rendering to take advantage of the better scaling in cuda.
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Re: How to mix BM Pocket and BMCC - Workflow

PostFri Jul 12, 2013 10:16 am

Different timelines! Not bad! Thanks!

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