DVC pro needs rendering Why?

[Dan Riley]

Is your sequence set for DV/DVCPRO ?
There is an easy setup for it.
You can use either the Blackmagic DV/DVCPRO codec
or Apple’s. It makes little difference. You should not
have to render any of that footage.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Actually, I forgot to ask, are your capture settings set for DV/DVCPRO
as well? You could, for example capture your footage over firewire
but use the DVCPRO50 codec or even 10 bit uncompressed
if you wanted to. Wouldn’t make your DV footage look any better
but it would require your sequence to be the same as whatever
your capture setting was.

Dan

[Ed Stevens]

I will check this. The render was DVCpro but I do not know how to
make the sequence DVCpro.
ED

[Ed Stevens]

I don’t have an option to capture DVCpro NTSC. Only PAL.
I used DV50 ntsc 48kz. This captures a few seconds and then says it encountered a problem. However, The few seconds of footage plays back real time.
I’m confused.

[Dan Riley]

First, is your camera or deck DVCPRO ?
If so, and you want to capture via firewire,
set you capture setting to DV NTSC 48 kHz.
With Blackmagic, it may have a different name
but it should include DV and/or DVCPRO in the name.
You do not have to use the Blackmagic codec
to use the Blackmagic card. One more thing…
DVCPRO is not a different format than DV
as far as the codec is concerned. DVCPRO
is only a faster running tape for less dropouts.
The picture quality is the same as DV so
use that setting.
If you don’t see one with the Blackmagic name in it,
that’s ok. Just use the stock one above.

Second, what disk are you telling FCP to put it on?
It needs to go to that RAID you said you had,
not your system drive. Where is it going?
Check under system settings, scratch disks.

Third, set your sequences to be the same as
whatever setting you used for your capture.

I hope this helps.
Dan