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Editing 1920×1080 from HDV .m2t
How can I edit .m2t files and bring them in as true 1920×1080?
With Vegas, I can import the footage from the .m2t and it’ll drop in at 1920×1080 but in Final Cut it keeps it smaller, and cant even use .m2t files.
I;m trying to edit footage shot on the Sony HVR-V1U.
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It’ needs to be re-wrapped as a Quicklime movie. There are utilities that do this. The only one i know of offhand that works with HDV is here:
https://www.cineform.com/index.htm
Sean
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Just import via firewire as HDV and edit away. There are Easy setups for that. If you have a Decklink or Kona card you will get 1920 x 1080 SDI & component output. If you transcode to another mpeg format to make the source files 1920 x 1080, you are loosing quality.
It is also possible with FCP to capture via firewire and convert to ProRes on the fly which will make your new files 1920 x 1080. Do a forum search on that. I think Chris Poisson has an article on it
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Today might be your lucky day.
https://www.studiodaily.com/hdstudio/post/9879.html
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Steve, the original is already HDV. The query was to convert from 1440 x 1080 to 1920 x 1080 m2t which FCP can’t edit with. This software can convert it back into HDV which defeats the purpose.
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Nope, Steve has it right. That app takes .mt2 files and wraps them as QT files making them editable in FCP without transcoding. The part about them being smaller was simply because FCP can’t handle .m2t files.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Nope, Steve has it right. That app takes .mt2 files and wraps them as QT files making them editable in FCP without transcoding.”
The original post says “I;m trying to edit footage shot on the Sony HVR-V1U”
That’s an HDV camera. Why she wants to convert to 1920 x 1080 m2t files is the issue. Having achieved this she will need to convert them back to HDV with the software Steve has pointed out to edit in FCP which is pointless. That’s why I suggested she stay with HDV from the camera originals.
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Nope!
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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[Michael Gissing] “The original post says “I;m trying to edit footage shot on the Sony HVR-V1U”
That’s an HDV camera. Why she wants to convert to 1920 x 1080 m2t files is the issue.”
I am guessing that the files were recorded on to a DTE Drive that records in the m2t format, that is why they are already in the m2t format.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Michael, Tyler was simply confused about the nature of HDV’s resolution. There is no such thing as a “true 1920×1080 HDV format” – all HDV is 1440×1080.
His real problem is that FCP doesn’t read M2T files, and his concern is to edit natively and not lose any quality (the way it works in Vegas) . The solution to this is what Steve, David, and myself suggested.
Sean
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[Zane Barker] “I am guessing that the files were recorded on to a DTE Drive that records in the m2t format”
Ah. If that is the case (and don’t you love posts that give you so many choices to guess)then reading the ClipWrap blurb that Steve linked, it says “With ClipWrap, m2t files are immediately converted for native HDV editing in Final Cut Pro.” So are they are converted to 1440 x 1080? If so FCP can’t take advantage of native 1920 and you might as well shoot on tape.
I have only ever had V1U tapes to work with which of course are 1440 x 1080 HDV.
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