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Canon play nice with FCP?
If I am shooting using a Canon XL2, can I use a consumer canon (Optura or whatever) as a deck and have it perform Ok? I remember reading that Canons have sync and/or drop frame issues(?) with FCP but maybe that was when shooing with Sony’s cams? If this is a non-no, will a dsr-11 be able to help the problem if the original footage was shot with a xl2?
OSX 10.3.8; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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Its the shooting camcorder that creates the greater problems (if there are any).
About the only thing you can do is try your setup.
Using the home video camcorder as a “deck” should be fine (assuming the heads are in-line with the XL2 (and that will be true of the DSR20, as well).
One thing to do is be sure to capture in 10-minute-or-under-length sections.
That will usually reduce the effects of audio/video “slippage” sometimes present in longer captures (especially when shooting with Canon camcorders). -
So what i remember is true about Canon and NLEs? Any chance they corrected this in the XL2 model?
OSX 10.3.8; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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[Craig Moss] “Any chance they corrected this in the XL2 model?”
Hope springs eternal.
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