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Questions on Prores
I’m a total novice with FCP and I’d appreciate any help on these questions.
I’m getting ready to edit 6 hours of interviews shot in 1080i HDV. I will be given a firewire deck which I’ll have overnight so that I can capture the film, but after that the deck must be returned.
1. Should I convert the files to Prores for faster editing? Should I do that during or after the deck capture process (only have one firewire bus). I’ve got a 1TB FW800 drive to do my work on.
2. I’ve experimented with some Prores files I made using compressor. They work much faster than HDV but i’ve noticed that after dragging them into the sequence, the entire clip requires rendering for the audio. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?
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I usually bring in our HDV footage as ProRes, via Firewire [check out this useful page https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/capture_hdv_prores_fw_balis.html & you can get a very useful set of presets from https://edu.moviola.com/hdv_prores%5D. Increase in storage space needed but edits very smoothly [we have a 3TB CalDigit RAID connected via eSATA to a MacPro].
Usually, I edit with multiple tracks, filters and effects – so the ease of ProRes is appreciated. But if your edit will consist mostly of straight cuts, my guess is that keeping it in HDV is probably okay. Might not worth the time to transcode to ProRes via Compressor [assuming you won’t be capturing it as ProRes].
As for the rendering needed for audio… maybe you need to check whether the audio settings of the clip matches that of your sequence. My sequence is always 48k/16 bits – but some cameras record in 44.1k.
Kai
FCP Editor / Producer with Intuitive Films
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Yes edit in ProRes, far better than editing in HDV. Here’s a great tutorial right here on the Cow to do the capture.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
As for the audio, make sure your audio was recorded in 48khz and not 32. FCP requires 48, most other settings will require render.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thanks guys!
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