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HDV firewire
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Dude,
You don’t want to edit HDV, that’s why this is important.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
Have a wonderful day.
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Playback set to HDV so it ain’t that.
I’ll try hooking it up in the order Dave suggested, but to be honest, I’m getting pretty pissed off trying to edit HDV in FCP. I’ve had some problem or other every time I’ve used it.
Can anyone suggest an alternative HD shooting format that doesn’t cost the earth and actually talks to FCP without the bullshit?
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“Can anyone suggest an alternative HD shooting format that doesn’t cost the earth and actually talks to FCP without the bullshit?”
There are many people successfully shooting and editing HDV in FCP, because it is cheap and it works. Yes it is a bit of a fiddle at first but I am doing 90% of my online work on docos that have worked out how to manage the format. When DV first appeared using firewire, there were lots of similar complaints but no-one these days seems to have an issue.
From your post it seems you don’t understand how to setup the camera and the correct easy setup in FCP. Search the forum as it has been covered hundreds of times.
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[neil Weaver] “Can anyone suggest an alternative HD shooting format that doesn’t cost the earth and actually talks to FCP without the bullshit?
“You can always take up HD radio production…
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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[neil Weaver] “Can anyone suggest an alternative HD shooting format that doesn’t cost the earth and actually talks to FCP without the bullshit?”
Nice language. This is a professional forum, nice to act professional.
If you want to work professionally and cheap, get a Panasonic HVX-200 and work in DVCPro HD.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Are you capturing to an external hard drive? If not, this may be a potential source of Mac performance issue.
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Sorry, there was me thinking we were all grown ups. Apologies for offending anyone’s sensibilities.
No, you’re all right. This is a user-issue, not a technology issue. I have made a decision that after this edit I am gonna nail HDV if it kills me.
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[neil Weaver] “Sorry, there was me thinking we were all grown ups.”
Learn to laugh Neil, especially at yourself. It will save you from a lifetime of frustration.
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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You should realize that your Final Cut project is defined as DV-PAL. You may have HDV footage in your camera, but you’re capturing and editing at 720×480 (not HD). Maybe this is your intention, but I’m betting that you would rather capture to a Final Cut timeline that’s HDV-native or Apple ProRes native. Then you wold be able to capture full HDV resolution through FireWire, without downconverting.
Mark J. Hill
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Hi Mark,
Read this thread and thought you might be a good person to ask.
Am trying to hook up my new iMAC and capture from my HDVZ1 via FCP.
How ever first things first – I’m daisy chaining / connecting the fire wire cable from the camera into my external HDD then connecting the fire wire from the Harddrive into the iMAC. Seems to be the only configuration I have to connect with.
I don’t have any signal from the camera yet in capture mode, could be capture settings have experimented bu to no avail, thought i’d go back to basics and check if the cabling config is a correct solution?
Thanks
Jules
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