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Final Cut Pro and DV Footage!
Hello! I’ve recently been digitizing old tapes, including Mini-DV. To do this, I was using a few old Macs with an old copy of iMovie (’11 I believe). When I was doing this, the files imported as DV, which was what I wanted, straight out of the camera in the format they were recorded in. However, today I tried to do this using a newer Mac that is running MacOS 10.15 Catalina using Final Cut Pro (10.5.4). While I can capture this footage, they all are imported as .mov instead of .dv as on the older machine/ software. Am I missing a setting, or did something fundamentally change in the course of newer OS upgrades?
P.S. I also tried doing this in the newest version of iMovie compatible with that operating system, but it yielded the same results.
Thank you for any help/advice
Drake
replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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Do you have the “MediaInfo” app? It will tell everything about a video file. I’m wondering if the .MOV file is simply a different container for the older footage still encoded as DCT – the miniDV standard? MediaInfo is a utility every videographer and editor should have; its free or cheap depending.
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Hi, It will be a DV codec like before but in a mov container—no need to worry.
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I use FCP 10.5.4 and Catalina. First in FCP i create a Project and Library. I then bring my media in. Mini Tapes or VHS tapes. Then I put them on the timeline and transfer them to DVD. I do it this way because I need to edit and soundtrack the footage.
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Thank you for your answer! I checked the metadata and I can see that it is indeed still DV. Much appreciated!
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Thank you! I just checked the metadata and it is indeed still DV. Thanks!
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Thanks, great, I’m happy to help.
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