• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Entry level HD to fcp

  Posted by Holly Middleton on March 19, 2008 at 3:09 pm

  My company, like all others producing inhouse video, is facing the giant SD to HD jump. As a first toe in, my supervisor wants to purchase a consumer handycam (Sony HDR-SR11) because of its ability to shoot 10 megapixel stills, HD and SD formats to a memory card. We edit in fcp version 6.0.1 on a Mac PowerPC G5 and our current workflow is DVCam tape and usually output to dvd. I’m sure he’s thinking tapeless workflow, drag and drop into fcp, edit & spit out hd pronto.
  I’m faced with the myriad of formats and other hairy details.
  This may belong in a different forum as well, but I put it here because fcp will be an integral part of this.

  Here are my basic questions:
  This Sony camcorder shoots HD MPEG4 AVC/H.264 (or SD MPEG2) Since I don’t have a deck, I would have to use the camera for transfer of the footage. Will I be able to simply copy & import these files – or will I still have to go through the capture process? If I can copy the files do I convert them to QTs in compressor for fcp?

  Thanks for the BASIC help!

  Jerry Hofmann replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jerry Hofmann

  March 19, 2008 at 9:21 pm

  Well HDV and “pronto” don’t ever really fit in the same sentence…

  You’ll need something like “MPEG Streamclip” (free download from Apple’s download area in support) to import the files that the camera shoots because FCP can’t deal directly with them… then if you choose ProRes 4:2:2, the render times will be just a bit slower than DV was…

  Jerry

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