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dv footage for a beta edit system
I need to provide about 30 minutes of dv material shot on DV to a client who has an FCP edit system set up for beat sp. Short of having the DV tape dubbed is there a close to lossless way to transfer the footage on DVD(ROM)?
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9 Replies
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Nope!!!
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30 minutes of DV footage would be about 6.5 GB.
A DVD ROM will record up to 4.7 GB.
If you capture DV via FW, the captured clips would be tranferable directly to a DVD ROM from the “Capture Scratch” folder in FCP.
If you FW captured into FCP in clips that were short enough, you could make the transfers and give the DV files to him on two or three DVD ROM’s with no further compression.
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David, your “Nope” surprises me.
There is no difference (except for the obvious SIZE limitations) between putting files on a DVD ROM and a hard drive.
You could not PLAY directly from the DVD in FCP, but once the files were transferred to the other FCP’s HD, the files would be viable.
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Matte,
I thought he meant on just one DVD…
DRW
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Hi,
Set your capture export size limit to 4 gigs and export the footage. This will create segmented QT files. Then burn the individual files onto two DVD’s.
Best Wishes,
Mitch
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Why don’t you just use a 8.5 gig DVD? Compusa has a 3 pack for around $15.
RH
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If you have a newer mac with a dual layer DVD burner, run out and get some Dual layer DVD+Rs and burn up the footage to that. You should be able to fit all of the footage to a dual layer.
Jeremy
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As a few have said it’s possible to transfer the footage on DVD but if your client is working with Beta SP material uncompressed then the DV footage would have to be rendered to be able to play in the timeline with the uncompressed footage. So the question is really what format is the client capturing his Beta SP material in and would it be quicker and easier to just make a Beta SP dub of your 30 minute DV footage, or have to render all that footage in his FCP system to get it to play with his footage.
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>I run FCP with a Cinewave card, normally capturing 720×486 Beta SP in Targa Cine YUV. I can put DV and Beta SP clips in the same timeline, and they play just fine, no rendering needed.
Ah, but are you capturing the beta sp tapes using the targa cine YUV to DV codec or to 8 or 10 bit?
Though I do believe if you have the Cinewave RT Pro version it is possible to mix codecs on the timeline but that is the power of the card that is handling that, not FCP.
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