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Capturing HDV in MCP 5.1.4
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With your hardware and software setup, FCP 5.1.4 shouldn’t work as well as it is. Obviously you have found at least one thing that doesn’t. Don’t capture to AIC in iMovie. Once you have upgraded and worked with ProRes you will never use AIC again.
An upgrade will cost less than the time and hassle you have already spent trying to capture HDV. It works perfectly well with your hardware & OS providing you are running FCS3 which is 32 bit at the moment. Who knows when it will migrate to 64 bit.
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Michael, I’m editing HDV AIC at the moment and apart from the multiclips needing to re render everytime I make a cut it seems to be working okay. Exporting will be the real test. Is there anything I need to watch when I export AIC? – just for SD DVD.
Your advice re. upgrades is sound and I probably will make the investment. Even FCP5 uses most of the 8 processors and a realistic quantity of my 14Gb of memory so FCP7 should be blistering.
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The problem with AIC is that it is a lossy codec and an unnecessary intermediary as it adds an extra transcode to an otherwise easy workflow.
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Uh huh, too late for me I fear. So exporting will be slow?
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So now I’ve got a 44 minute timeline of AIC video. What is the best quality export to DVD solution? Export via Compressor OR output back to HDV tape and then down convert in the camera to a hardware DVD recorder?
Just exporting to a Quicktime movie threatens to take 2and a half hours on a Macpro 8 core. Do I export the full 1440×1080 raster and let Toast 10 resize it for DVD or resize it in the export? I haven’t exported HD from FC5 this way before.
Thanks Michael!
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