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Capturing HDV using FCPExpress for use in FCP Proper – Possible?
Hi All,
I am looking at possibly doing a project requiring a fair amount of HDV ingest for editing natively in FCP proper.
I am wondering wether you can capture HDV using Final Cut Express the same as using Final Cut Pro, as we are looking at setting up a couple of capture stations and it occurred to me it would be cheaper to install Express on them if that would serve the purpose before we transfer captured files to the main sweets on the network.
Any help would be appreciated. Tahnks a lot.
Jason Allen
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5 Replies
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According to everything I’ve read and seen, yes that exactly what you can do. Use FCE for a capture station and then move the project over to FCP to finish.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
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Thanks a lot for that Walter, and for your many other posts I have found quite useful since I began my time here.
Jason Allen
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I don’t think you can capture native HDV in FCE, you are limited to the Apple intermediate Codec only – I’ve done extensive testing with AIC and I’m not impressed at all, native HDV in FCP5 is much cleaner.
Steve Connor
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“capture HDV using Final Cut Express the same as using Final Cut Pro”
You can capture HDV with the intermediate codec which is not as good as the codec in Final Cut Po 5 but it would need to be transcoded to Quicktime before bringing it into FCP HD.
Final Cut Pro 5 ingests HDV (MPEG-2) natively with better results for direct long GOP editing.
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You didn’t say if you will have to deliver in HD, or if the final show will be Standard Def uncompressed. In that case you would be better off just editing uncompressed SD and input via the camera or a deck.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media
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