• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Playback with SONY HDR-FX1

  Posted by Hemchen on June 23, 2005 at 9:51 am

  Hello,

  just updated to FCP 5 and was amazed to see that in this version the camera is now recognized and could be remoted. But there is sill a problem with watching and recording. Just read that it isn

  Hemchen replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  June 23, 2005 at 4:54 pm

  This is all because HDV is a highly compressed MPEG-2 format. That format has special needs…such as re-encoding the information before outputting to tape.

  Not to knock you, but HDV is not the best format to work with. Maybe to shoot with, as long as you capture it with an HD card and not it’s native format, and then output to another form of HD. And the reasons you listed are a few of the reasons not to. No output without re-compression….exporting to DVD takes DAYS….and no veiwing on an external monitor…without special gear.

  Look what Pat Sheffield found:

  https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@49.THU7aXHn4xv.13008@.68b1c8ad/12
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  Hemchen

  June 24, 2005 at 12:18 pm

  Hello Shane,

  thanks for your answer. I
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  Tho Nguyen

  June 27, 2005 at 3:08 pm

  Hi,
  I have the same Camera working with FCP5. As i see, there is not possible to print directly the time line to HDV-Tape (Ausgabe auf Band) ? Even after exporting the file to a new HDV-one ?
  Greeting from K
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  Hemchen

  June 29, 2005 at 12:18 pm

  Hi,
  just figured out when set the Blackmagic card in FCP (Anzeigen -> Videoanzeige) to “HDTV 1080i 25Hz 8-Bit (1920 x 1080)” i now can watch the Timeline on an extern TV Monitor fluently (and it is letterboxed !) and play out on a DigiBeta but you have to start the Digi manually, otherwise no picture ??? Weired thing but this will work for us at the moment.

  heimchen

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