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  Posted by Tom Alexander on February 6, 2010 at 6:18 pm

  Sequence set at HDV 1080i 1440×1080 apple pro resHQ from the beginning. Now all clips and video files info says ” Clip, quicktime player, 1920×1080, apple intermediate code, 29.97FPS. Should they not be HDV with prores? Plays in FCP fine with big output issues.

  Help.

  Shane Ross replied 16 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  February 6, 2010 at 6:38 pm

  [tom alexander] “Sequence set at HDV 1080i 1440×1080 apple pro resHQ from the beginning.”

  How? HDV is a format…ProRes is a format. You can’t have settings be two formats. Either HDV or ProRes. And HQ is overkill, especially for HDV footage.

  [tom alexander] “Now all clips and video files info says ” Clip, quicktime player, 1920×1080, apple intermediate code, 29.97FPS.”

  OK…how did you capture your footage? Because your clips aren’t in the HDV codec, nor the ProRes codec, but the AIC codec. A third codec type.

  [tom alexander] “Should they not be HDV with prores?”

  HDV with ProRes? What does that mean? No, they could either be HDV OR ProRes…cant be both. Or they could be AIC. Look at the clips in the Browser…scroll to the column that says COMPRESSOR. What does it say? AIC? Then your footage is AIC, and you should be working in an AIC timeline.

  Shane

  

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  John Fishback

  February 6, 2010 at 8:59 pm

  Here’s an excellent tutorial on how to capture HDV as ProRes. I just used this workflow for the first time and it was seamless.

  John

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  Tom Alexander

  February 7, 2010 at 1:55 am

  The original files went into imovie before I stared working in final cut. So can I chance the sequence settings to aic, what size? and rerender? Set QT compressor to aic and output QT aic?
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  Shane Ross

  February 7, 2010 at 3:37 pm

  Ugh…iMovie. Never use iMovie to capture footage for use in FCP. More trouble than it’s worth.

  Take all of your footage into Compressor. Use the ProRes 422 for Progressive, or Interlaced (whatever your footage is) setting and hit SUBMIT.

  Shane

  

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