• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HDV Import into FCP6 (Standard HDV, Apple Intermediate, Uncompressed)

  Posted by Peter Dassos on February 13, 2010 at 5:50 am

  Hi all,

  I have found the Creativecow forum extremely useful over the past few years as a wealth of information. I hope you may be able to answer my relatively simple question (first post on the forum too!).

  Basically I have HDV footage shot on a FX1 to import into FCP6. My standard work-flow would always use ‘HDV 1080i50’ as the import setting (within the Easy Setup dialogue box).

  I have recently read that there are a number of other ways to import HDV footage and retain better image quality, some of the formats mentioned were:
  Apple Intermediate Codec
  Uncompressed 8bit
  Uncompressed 10bit

  After a little experimenting I did realise that standard HDV import using FCP retails a data rate of approx 3.3mb/s, whereas Apple Intermediate Codec revealed a much higher data rate at around 10mb/s.

  The problem is, I have been unable to perform any kind of import using Uncompressed 8-bit PAL or Uncompressed 10-bit PAL. I keep getting an error on the import dialogue

  ‘Capture Preset must have a video or an audio digitizer set to capture. Please change the desired preset in the Audio/Video settings’.

  Do you have any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?

  Many thanks in advance,

  Peter

  Peter Dassos replied 16 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Fishback

  February 13, 2010 at 3:12 pm

  Checkout Chris Poisson’s excellent tutorial.

  John

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  Peter Dassos

  February 14, 2010 at 12:24 am

  Hi John,

  Thanks for your reply. The tutorial was useful.

  I am however still concerned that the tutorial provides instructions on importing using Apple Intermediate Code (which provides slight loss to the original quality).

  I was under the impression (please correct me if I am wrong) that you are also able to import into FCP at Uncompressed (either 8-bit or 10-bit) to ensure no loss in transfer from HDV tapes to the computer.

  Is there any way to import HDV to Uncompressed 8bit/10bit format within FCP?

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