Digitize DVCPRO HD at 25p or 50p

[Mactrix]

This mistake is often made in europe/germany.

Your DoP thought this is a framerate the post-production needs … it’s not

720p25 is not a standard! (Yet). No video I/O card can capture or output
it. No VTR can record it (expect JVC HDV). Because there is no VTR there
is no output over a video connection like HD-SDI.

The only thing you can do is to use the HD1200 to convert your 720p25
to 1080i25 (psf – it’s still progressive) and capture it over HD-SDI. There
is no other solution. Maybe the DVS clipster can read the 25p flags and
convert for FCP …

50p is currently not possible with FCP. Hopefully the next version (NAB is
near).

Greetings from germany (come visit the german forum at finalcutpro.de
to find details for 720p25)

[Christopher Koch]

You suggestiion sounds like a good one, but I face another problem, integrating stock footage from both NTSC and PAL sources into my sequences. I’ve just learned that AVID (with which I’m more familiar) is okay with this but fcp is not (lots of rendering). This person’s advice could solve both problems if he’s right. Digitize everything at the lowest possible standard of DV 25p, creating small files which will render much more quickly, and create an EDL list at the end of the project and conform on an AVID or in a post house. Any thoughts on this?

[Mactrix]

In fact, FCP on a fast G5 renders much more faster than AVID do.
In fact AVID DSP boards support some realtime functions so there
is no need for rendering in many cases …
In fact software rendering gives better control over quality and
realtime means often “quick and dirty”. Don’t worry about rendering
speed and quality in FCP. Rendering won’t take longer than a messy
offline/online-workflow. Also the scaling quality was enhanced in
FCP 5. Try using the unlimited RT-extrem preview settings to receive
a realtime preview …