• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  integrading DVcam On HDV timeline

  Posted by Randy Johnson on February 22, 2007 at 1:00 pm

  I am working on a show that was shot on HDV…will be shown in HDV but I need to integrate some stock footage that is DV PAL. Is this possable?

  thanks Randy

  Boyd Mccollum replied 19 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Renjith

  February 22, 2007 at 1:13 pm

  yes, but u will nedd to scale it to fix with HDV aspect ratio if ur PAL footages are 4:3
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  Randy Johnson

  February 22, 2007 at 2:33 pm

  Yea i am ok with scaling…but wont the DV have a flicker/strobe effect because it is interlaced and a different frame rate?
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  Joseph Owens

  February 22, 2007 at 4:02 pm

  You will have to do a frame conversion. 25->30, aspect ratio, etc. Shake has some nice buttons to push for all those things. Isn’t your HDV interlaced? Wont’ be so bad if it was 24p, but relax, their 60i appears to be sort of a faked 30/60 sequential or segmented field, being long-GOP where almost everything is synthetic anyway. Really, think about it… only one in 15 frames is an actual recording.

  JPO
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  Boyd Mccollum

  February 22, 2007 at 7:58 pm

  [randy j] “but wont the DV have a flicker/strobe effect because it is interlaced and a different frame rate?”

  it shouldn’t be a problem – people do it all the time. Check out Graeme Nattress’ Standards Converter (at http://www.nattress.com).

  Another way to do it – and the best way to see how something works is to just give it a try – is to take your PAL footage (or a short 30 second clip), drop it on a timeline with your HDV settings. Render, then export to a QT with your timeline settings. Reimport into your project.

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