• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  .dv file?

  Posted by Ben Oliver on October 20, 2005 at 3:21 pm

  Hello all, quick question.

  editing some footage that was recoreded on a firestore. some reason i have a bunch of 1.8gb sequentual .dv files?

  i have to render the audio in final cut pro, in order to hear it, and its taking me an hour, which means that i am not saving any time, which was the reason they used a firestore…….

  anyone have an workarounds, or info on the firestor?

  -ben

  Sean Oneil replied 20 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  October 20, 2005 at 10:18 pm

  Those are DV Stream files. DV Stream files don’t have timecode…but since they aren’t from a tape, they really don’t need TC, do they?

  You need to convert them to DV/NTSC or some uncompressed format your capture card (if you have one) will work with.
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  Sean Oneil

  October 21, 2005 at 12:35 am

  Firestore actually makes a software utility you want called “Firestore DV Conversion Suite”. With it, you can convert a .DV file into a Quicktime .MOV w/ the DV/NTSC codec – making it so it works in Final Cut which you can then manually assign timecode to. It may even have the option to tranfer the original TC. The conversion process is very quick and does not render/re-encode it, so it’s 100% lossless. I used it a while back to convert Premiere for Windows DV footage to Final Cut DV. It worked well. The software runs on Windows though, not on Mac.

  Sean

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