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HD Capture with Final Cut Pro HD
Hi,
I have been familiarising myself with Final Cut Pro HD for a while now and have pretty much got it I think, but so far I have only been capturing standard DV from a Mini-DV camera. Recently, however, my company purchased a Canon XL H1 HDV camera. When I tried to capture the footage via Firewire ~same as I always have~ it wasn’t liking it.
Is there an obvious setting change I’m missing for capturing HDV? Or is it more likely to be output settings on the camera?
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Not all HD is the same. HDV uses a long gop format that was not introduced until after FCP HD was released. FCP HD only can work with DVC PRO HD or uncompressed HD, HDV is a compressed format. it use HDV in FCP you need FCP 5.1 it supports HDV.
Get the crossgrade, you are lucky they extended the deadline, you can send in your old FCP HD discs and get the full Final Cut Studio for $200.
https://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade/
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Oh and if you are planing on working in HD or HDV do your self a big favor and learn all you can about the for many formats, there are some big differences.
In the last issue of the creative cow magazine there was a great article about HDV, since you are shooting in HDV, READ IT.
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[zrb123] ” FCP HD only can work with DVC PRO HD or uncompressed HD, HDV is a compressed format. it use HDV in FCP you need FCP 5.1 it supports HDV.”
First off, DVCPRO HD is a highly compressed HD format as well. Must be if it is capturable via firewire.
Second, FCP has been able to capture HDV since version 5.0. It is FCP 5.1.2 that added support for 24P and additional PAL formats.
[zrb123] “HDV uses a long gop format”
Some formats do, like the Sony format. JVC uses a short GOP format…thus the incompatibilty between HDV formats. There isn’t an HDV standard. Well, there isn’t an HD standard for that matter. 5k, 2k, 1080i, 720p…HDCAM SR, HDCAM, D5, DVCPRO HD, HDV…yuck.
Shane
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Shane I never said DVC PRO HD was uncompressed I said ” FCP HD only can work with DVC PRO HD or uncompressed HD”
And yes you are right FCP 5.0 douse support HDV however because Apple only sells the current version I said to get 5.1 because you cant purchase 5.0.
Thanks for the info on the short gop, that I did not know.
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AH…you said “FCP HD” only supports DVCPRO HD and UNCOMPRESSED HD. FCP HD is 4.5.
Sorry. Man…need to read better.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net
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