• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Mixing HD and SD on the same timeline

  Posted by Paul Witcher on January 26, 2009 at 1:16 pm

  All,

  I’m looking to move to FCP (from Adobe Elements) I will be shooting a 1 hour documentary soon in HD (Sony FX1) I will also need to use SD from bullet cameras. From my understanding will I need to use Compressor so the two can be on the same timeline? does Compressor come with FCP? how will FCP handle the two? and by mixing will I have a HD video at the end of editing? finally are there another gotya’s that I could come up against?

  Apoligies for all the questions (and if they are basic)

  Thanks for any help you can give.

  Regards Paul

  Nick Price replied 17 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  January 26, 2009 at 2:58 pm

  Hi Paul,
  If you need to up-size or change the time base of your picture, go to Compressor.
  Shane Ross have a tutorial about upsizing in Compressor.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Shane Ross

  January 26, 2009 at 6:47 pm

  Yeah, but it’s hidden. I only whip it out on special occasions as it is OLD. Guess I should re-do for the current version and host it on the Cow.

  DV to DVCPRO HD: https://pistolerapost2.com/shaneross/DV_to_DVCPRO_HD.mov

  Shane

  

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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  Nick Price

  January 26, 2009 at 8:44 pm

  Hi Paul,
  you can mix the two formats on your timeline, but depending on the speed of your computer you might have to render the lower res footage to play it. Or you can watch with your realtime settings set at ‘unlimited’ and it will play at a lower resolution. Then when you are happy with your edit you can use compressor to upscale your dv clips. You can do this in FCP but it compressor does a better job. Of course can upscale all your footage before you edit… I suppose it depends how much footage you have.

  best wishes
  NIck

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