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Dop frames on play back HDv 1080i60 on power book
i have 5-hours of HDv 1080i60 footage already stored on my hard drive digitized by a G5 they play fine on my external hard disc but wont play in final cut. please help thanks
Elliott
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Elliot,
What are the specs of your Powerbook? It doesn’t matter what kind of machine captured the footage to drive if you’re trying to playback HDV on a system that can’t handle it. HDV is HEAVILY compressed, and just playing it back is very processor intensive. I don’t know that I’d even try on my Powerbook… that’s a MacBook Pro thing (assuming it has to be portable).
Obviously this isn’t great news if your Powerbook is what you have to edit on. I’d suggest going back to the G5 you originally captured on and recapturing as anamorphic DV. You’ll just have to turn firewire down-conversion on in your camera or deck. If you can get back to a G5, or better, you could online (I suppose that term is relative when you’re talking about HDV) your project, and then put out an HDV master.
If you have any graphics, you should wait until you’re back in and HDV timeline to incorporate them, or at least make them HD resolution and export an SD copy to use now.Hope that helps,
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