• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  miniDV fcp import jaggies

  Posted by Chris Happel on March 21, 2011 at 2:00 pm

  Hi,

  I’ve offered to edit material given to me on miniDV, and I’m not very happy with the results I’m getting. I borrowed a Canon XH-A1 to do the import, into Final Cut Pro (studio) v7 via firewire.

  The camera claims the material is ‘DV60i’ (it wasn’t shot on that camera; I couldn’t say for sure what it is), but when I do the ‘log and capture’ ‘capture now’ I end up with clips that are 720×480 29.97fps and have noticeably jagged edges – the whole thing looks fuzzier than what it does on the camera screen.

  I’m hoping this isn’t the best I can get. I’ve tried a number of the capture setting / device control / capture/input settings (including pulldown removal) and several settings on the camera, but get the same results. I haven’t seen anything in FCP that indicates it supports 60i; do I need to do something in compressor to make the import work better?

  thanks for any tips or references.

  ch

  Chris Tompkins replied 15 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Chris Tompkins

  March 21, 2011 at 2:33 pm

  DV is DV – you brought it in native ~ via FireWire.
  It’s the best it’s going to get.

  How are you monitoring?

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC

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