• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  DVCPro HD & Prores

  Posted by Peter Tooke on February 26, 2010 at 8:00 pm

  a client has brought me a project in which 1) there is a lot of material shot on Varicams / tapes already captured a while ago as DVCPro HD. Now he has recently acquired new material, but shot on both the Lumix GH1 and Canon 5D MKII. less of it.
  Now this new material has not been ingested yet – which is what I am trying to determine the best workflow for…
  I might just say bring all the new material in as DVCPro HD too, something I easily done with the Canon h.264 files instead of the normally conversion to Prores; but the Lumix uses the AVCHD codec. And in Final Cut Pro’s log & Transfer, you are limited to Apple ProRes codec (or to the Apple Intermediate Codec). And as far as I know, this is best way to get AVCHD files into FCP.

  suggestions for best scenarios, pros and cons, much appreciated.

  cheers,
  peter

  Peter Tooke replied 16 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Fishback

  February 26, 2010 at 8:42 pm

  Checkout ClipWrap. There’s a trial version.

  John

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  Peter Tooke

  February 27, 2010 at 4:18 am

  john –
  thanks for that, i’ll check it out tonight.
  and i guess survey says… re: pros & cons – transcoding the dvcpro hd material a waste of time / compression…. vs make everything full raster like the canon and lumix.
  Final output is tbd, but generally whatever looks best.
  peter

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