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final cut footage into Avid?
Hey everyone,
A young friend just received some HDV footage for a project of his but has no software to edit it. I offered to down convert it but I have avid and just found out that it was captured with FCP.
Pardon my ignorance, I’ve nil experience with FCP. Can anyone tell me what format FCP captures its files to and whether there is a process whereby I can import it into AVID XPRESS HD or any PC application really.
Thanks in advance.
Richard Sutcliffe
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2 Replies
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Doesn’t Avid accept any QT movie, then while it imports it, it converts any uncompatible QT to it’s format? Did your system not recongize the files? FCP captures as native HDV (MPEG) or it can capture files using Apple’s Intermediate Codec for HDV which is an all I frame codec and would make the files roughly the same size as DVCPRO100. Sort of depends on what was chosen when it was captured.
Might be best just to down convert or cross conver the HDV from the original tapes…
Jerry
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Avid can import any QT file but that (and anything else it imports for that matter) will be converted to Avid’s omf format. You will lose timecode and the transcoding process can’t be good for quality. And if you have a lot of file it could take a while. I would recapture the footage. Of course Avid Xpro on Mac can’t take HDV just yet. Not sure about an Adrenaline.
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