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FCP 4.5HD – Does it do HDV footage yet?
As I have just bought the complete FCP5HD suite (not upgrade) I am looking to sell FCP4.5HD with my old G4. Question is, I’m selling to somebody who owns a Sony Z1 and I need to know if it will work?
The last I heard a couple of months back was that you had to buy a third party plug in, is this still the case or does FCP4.5 work natively with HDV footage now, or will she have to buy FCP5 like me?
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4 Replies
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No, it doesn’t work with native HDV you would need a third party plugin.
Steve Connor
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FCP 4.5 will not work with HDV footage natively, thus the advent of FCP 5 (well, it does other things too).
FCP 4.5 CAN edit HDV if you capture with Lumire HD, but I am unsure of the codec it uses. And it isn’t free. And if you capture using iMovie HD, then you are using the Apple Intermediate codec and are compressing the footage.
She will have to buy FCP 5 if she wants to work with HDV natively.
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Lumiere is not, in my opinion, a professional solution to working in HDV. I found it very difficult to work with, particularly since I had a large quantity of footage. I think the only good FCP solution to working in HDV is FCP 5.
Arthur VIbert
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If you use the new Miranda HDV bridge, you can convert from mpeg to HD SDI. This can be used in FCP4.5 if you have a suitable HD card like Blackmagic and fast enough RAID to run HD uncompressed.
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