AVCHD & HDV editing

[Sutharsan Bala]

Both types of clips are on an external SATA drive connected to my MBP via a Sonnet eSATA Expresscard adapter. This has a rather fast throughput. Faster than FW or USB.

I put these clips together in an HDV timeline. So the HDV clips play real time and the ProRes clips play ‘green line’ real time.

Thanks again,

Some more questions:

1). Did the clips play OK together? How about transitions and edit and how were render times? (I thought HDV clips had to render a lot when put on an HDV timeline, I thought that was the purpose of making them ProRes?).

2). Did you set the render to ProRes or HDV? What would you suggest here?

3).Will this work with FW 800 you think?

4). So I should re-capture the HDV material to native HDV?

5). If the clips play OK together on the same timeline, the only reason to downconvert the AVCHD material from ProRes to HDV would be to save space, right?

6). How / what should I output to? QT using conversion, or SD DVD using compressor – will there be problems during output due to HDV and ProRes (AVCHD) material on the same timeline?

Thanks for your help, I’m learning a lot!

-Sutharsan-

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” – A. Einstein

[Sutharsan Bala]

Would still be nice to get some views on the Q’s above.. 🙂

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” – A. Einstein

[Leslie Harris-senac]

What’s the best way to combine AVCHD and HDV footage in final cut pro7. Apparently my editor converted my AVCHD footage into HDV while capturing it. (‘not sure how he did this, but many of my clips are playing “jerky” as if they are in fast motion for a second or two and then go to normal speed?? This looks strange and I’m not sure how to correct it; perhaps changing the Compression in Sequence Settings, since the project is almost complete. Please advise.