• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  importing HDV into FCP

  Posted by Steve Clarke on February 15, 2010 at 1:26 pm

  Sorry if I am requesting a much responded posting. I am about to start a project shot on HDV with a Canon XLH 1. I will be importing straight from the camera with firewire. Do I log and capture in HDV or Pro Res? Storage not an issue but rather speed of editing and final quality.

  Many thanks
  Steve

  John Fishback replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  February 15, 2010 at 6:51 pm

  I much prefer working with ProRes. Just remember, you have to manually add reel numbers in the browser, and recapturing is not really a happening thing, so just make sure you’re covered with a media backup or Raid 5 in case of a catastrophic drive failure.

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  John Fishback

  February 15, 2010 at 10:26 pm

  Checkout Chris Poisson’s excellent tutorial on the HDV to ProRes workflow.

  John

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