• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  DVC pro needs rendering Why?

  Posted by Ed Stevens on September 8, 2005 at 12:31 am

  My SYSTEM

  MAC dual G5 2.5 gig. 4.5 gb RAM. OS 10.3.8
  Blackmagic Decklink Extreme card v4.8b
  FCP 4.5 production Suite
  500GB G-Raid Firewire800
  Decks = Beta-SP, DVCpro, DigiBeta.
  Audio Mix = Mackie 1604 VLZpro
  I believe I have the stock display card
  Panasonic AJD-230H DVCpro deck

  I am bringing in the footage by Firewire. When I put the footage on the timeline, it all needs rendering. Why?
  Thanks in advance
  ED

  Dan Riley replied 20 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Dan Riley

  September 8, 2005 at 2:35 am

  Is your sequence set for DV/DVCPRO ?
  There is an easy setup for it.
  You can use either the Blackmagic DV/DVCPRO codec
  or Apple’s. It makes little difference. You should not
  have to render any of that footage.

  Dan
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  Dan Riley

  September 8, 2005 at 2:39 am

  Actually, I forgot to ask, are your capture settings set for DV/DVCPRO
  as well? You could, for example capture your footage over firewire
  but use the DVCPRO50 codec or even 10 bit uncompressed
  if you wanted to. Wouldn’t make your DV footage look any better
  but it would require your sequence to be the same as whatever
  your capture setting was.

  Dan
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  Ed Stevens

  September 8, 2005 at 8:17 pm

  I will check this. The render was DVCpro but I do not know how to
  make the sequence DVCpro.
  ED
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  Ed Stevens

  September 8, 2005 at 8:57 pm

  I don’t have an option to capture DVCpro NTSC. Only PAL.
  I used DV50 ntsc 48kz. This captures a few seconds and then says it encountered a problem. However, The few seconds of footage plays back real time.
  I’m confused.
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  Dan Riley

  September 9, 2005 at 4:29 am

  First, is your camera or deck DVCPRO ?
  If so, and you want to capture via firewire,
  set you capture setting to DV NTSC 48 kHz.
  With Blackmagic, it may have a different name
  but it should include DV and/or DVCPRO in the name.
  You do not have to use the Blackmagic codec
  to use the Blackmagic card. One more thing…
  DVCPRO is not a different format than DV
  as far as the codec is concerned. DVCPRO
  is only a faster running tape for less dropouts.
  The picture quality is the same as DV so
  use that setting.
  If you don’t see one with the Blackmagic name in it,
  that’s ok. Just use the stock one above.

  Second, what disk are you telling FCP to put it on?
  It needs to go to that RAID you said you had,
  not your system drive. Where is it going?
  Check under system settings, scratch disks.

  Third, set your sequences to be the same as
  whatever setting you used for your capture.

  I hope this helps.
  Dan

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