User Manual

Playing Back HDV Media
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4. Click Open.
Your Avid editing application copies the media in a fast import as native HDV.
Playing Back HDV Media
Depending on your input/output hardware, there might be some limitations when you play back
HDV media. With a DV device connected in IEEE-1394 mode, you can play back to the DV
device in Draft Quality and Best Performance quality only. With no device connected, you can
play back as Full Quality and use the full-screen playback monitor. You can play back to the DV
device as Full Quality only if you first transcode the material to DNxHD or DNxHD-TR. For
more information, see the table in “Outputting HDV” on page 1529.
In a 1080i HDV project you can play back through some Avid input/output hardware
configurations by changing the project type.
If you have a system with Avid Nitris DX or Avid Mojo DX input/output hardware, you do not
need to transcode your HDV media or change your project type for playback.
To play back HDV media:
t In the Project window, click the Format tab. From the Project Type menu, select a project
type as follows.
The media is downconverted and plays in SD with an anamorphic squeeze.
Outputting HDV
To output HDV, you need to use a transport stream. You can use an existing transport stream or
create a new one. To create a digital cut to go out to other devices, you need to first render and
transcode the sequence.
You cannot render to an HDV resolution. However, you can render or transcode the HDV
sequence to an HD compressed format (see “Outputting HDV through Avid Input/Output
Hardware” on page 1530). The following table provides information on which resolutions are
used for rendering and transcoding in each project type when you select an HDV raster
dimension.
For 1080i/50 projects Select 25i PAL
For 1080i/59.94 projects, Select 30i NTSC