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  ofline/online proyect in hdv with blackmagic extreme

  Posted by Cesar Cortes on February 19, 2008 at 8:25 pm

  Hi. Im a r beginer with all this technology of HDV and blacmagic cards. Used to work with an XL2 canon always but now i have a new proyect and im trying to get the best quality that my budget can get.

  This month got the Canon XH A1 and a Blackmagic HD Extreme. Im working on a Mac Pro with FCP 5.1.4,
  The pryect is a documentary that is going to bring hundreds of tapes and hours of material. so I was thinking about ofline online editing proces. I have never done that before but ive heard is posible for me to capture all my material in a “bad quality” format. Make my edits and when i finish the cut, recapture all material in a biger format using the blackmagic card. getting only the frames i used for the proyect. on a 4:2:2 uncompressed HD to make in that proyect all color correction and latest version.

  I know that i need a RAID sistem for that, Im saving to get the internal RAID sistem that can be done with hard drives in the inside bays of the mac pro and that i should get more ram. I have now 2g

  The cuestion is “is this posible” and perhaps some help with what kinds of codecs i should use or articles i could read about this process.

  Im new and working alone so any help wolud be great.
  Many tanks
  Cesar

  Cesar Cortes replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  February 19, 2008 at 11:19 pm

  Firstly the process of editing HDV in DV codec and then using FCP Media Manager to create your online sequence to recapture is a process that I have used many times.

  The real issue for you is understanding the technical requirements of recapturing video as uncompressed. The RAID you speak of is highly unlikely to support HD uncompressed. Typically people are using large external RAIDs with many drives and fibre channel or SCSI connectors. This can cost more than the editing system.

  It might be worth searching posts on the Final Cut forum for workflows using HDV firewire capture and rendering your sequence in ProRes codec. This will require an upgrade of your FCP to version 6. but means your capture is in HDV so no need to recapture but rendering he final using ProRes which is a compressed HD codec that still needs fast drives, but not nearly as taxing as uncompressed.
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  Cesar Cortes

  February 20, 2008 at 4:42 pm

  Michael.

  Many tanks for the time and advice. Ill keep studing about this in the direction you give me.
  Cesar

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