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HDV newbie questions + Required Disk throughput ?
We’re using FCP 4.5 HD with a DVCAM deck.
98% of our productions are DV/DVCAM.
I have a project pointing at the door which would require editing in HDV. Never done it before, don’t know the perks of HDV editing. All we know is that it’s often referred to as ‘half HD’. Any resources on the dos and don’ts of HDV editing in FCP 4.5 ?
Secondly, working in DVCAM, our scratch disks are setup on 2 external Maxtor FW drives of 250Gb each. Will FireWire, and these 2 drives specifically, sustain HDV’s data rate ? What data rate do we need to properly edit HDV ?
What are the implications if we do our post in After Effects ?
Thanks in advance for any light you might shed.
Marco
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You can’t edit HDVs native format with FCP HD. You will need to get lumiereHD to convert the footage and compress it to work with FCP 4.5. FCP 5 does work with HDV nativel.
BUT…if your other footage is DV, and you will stay in a DV environment, then you can downconvert the HDV footage to DV right out of the camera…then you can work with all the footage DV and things wil work fine.
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