• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  shooting AVCHD & HDV

  Posted by Mark Lewis on June 18, 2010 at 5:48 pm

  I am shooting an event soon, where I will be using one Sony handycam AVCHD camera, and one Sony Z1

  I am going to be doing a Multicam edit so I will need the files from both cameras to be the same codec/frame size etc. but I’m not sure whether I should downgrade the HDV files so that they are the same as the AVCHD files (which are 1440×810) or convert the AVCHD files to match the HDV files..

  I edit on final cut 6.0.1

  Thanks in advance for any advice

  Mark

  Mark Lewis replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Michael Craven

  June 18, 2010 at 6:20 pm

  I’d just transcode them both to ProRes and go from there.
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  Mark Lewis

  June 18, 2010 at 10:27 pm

  Yep thats what i’m going to do, but they will still have different frame sizes… which frame size would be best to convert to?
  thanks, James
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  Michael Craven

  June 19, 2010 at 5:28 pm

  [Mark Lewis] “which frame size would be best to convert to?”

  I’d use 1920×1080 or 1280×720. What are your delivery requirements?
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  Mark Lewis

  June 20, 2010 at 3:10 pm

  thanks, 1920×1080 is what i was thinking of using

  what exactly do you mean by delivery requirements? (sorry im a bit new to this!. I’ll be putting it onto DVD once edited…

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