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FCP Pro Res Plays Over Firewire?
I dropped an EX-1 1080i project onto a timeline setup in FCP Easy Setup for DV-NTSC Firewire Basic. I changed the rendering to Pro res and rendered the timeline as usual. Looks great and plays fine over firewire to my DVCAM deck.
It seems counter-intuitive that a Pro res rendered project would play over firewire. Could someone in-the-know explain how this works.
Thanks!Kevin Jones
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It’s actually not- FCP is downconverting ProRes to DV on the fly…
Noah
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And you can even edit in XDCAM EX native and it’ll spit that out firewire too (and spit is kinda accurate because that’s what it’ll look like).
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Craig, you might be able to answer this.
In the Easy Setup menus there are several different version of DV available. What is the difference?
Thanks.kj
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DV is DV- there’s no different flavors just the frame rates and PAL vs. NTSC.
Noah
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well you have the plain vanilla DV PAL or DV NTSC settings … use these setups if you’ve shot bulk standard 4:3 DV
then you have the Anamorphic variants ,… use these if you have shot in “widescreen” mode with your 4:3 DV camera, or in DV mode with your 16:9 HDV camera
then there are the “Firewire Basic” variants … use these if you are having problems getting your camera to be recognised or controlled with FCP (most commonly this is needed with Canon’s DV cameras)
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