MiniDV -> ProRes422 or H.264

[_Rok_]

She went with ProRes. She's also paying to have the whole thing captured by a local service company It's not the way I would do it, but it's not my movie. Regardless, I endorse anyone that throws down the gauntlet and creates something all their own.

Best practices aside, there are a thousand ways to make a good movie.

Thanks for all the feedback.


Thomas

[WalterB]

If the tapes have indexmarkers for every shot, every single shot can be captured as a seperate file.
That way you can load the footage from one tape, check it and throw out the shots that won't be used at all.

On short projects I used to load a tape as a single or 2 files.
But with projects with over 25 hours of material I preferred the single shot method.
This way I could kick out 10% after a first look.

Wish her good luck with that much footage. I fear my head would explode with that amount of footage