Importing Footage DV/NTSC codec Hi Res into Final Cut Studio

[Walter Biscardi]

[Annie] “any advice (besides capturing it all over using FC Studio)?”

Nope, capture in FCP. If you want to edit in FCP, capture all footage in FCP. Capture on any other platform and you’re asking for problems.

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[Paul Dickin]

Hi
If only the audio needs rendering once the file is in a FCP timeline, then the movies have been captured as .dv DV-stream files, as used in iMovie.
QT .mov files with the DV/NTSC codec are what they need converting into in order to work with FCP.

I have quite happily uded FCP to edit DV footage captured in Premiere (older Mac versions), or with Sorenson Squeeze’s capture utility, but off-tape Timecode isn’t always useable once in FCP.
If tape timecode is important its best, as Walter says, to stick with FCP for capture.

[Peter Dewit]

If they are dv stream files I’ve had lots of trouble with them. they seem to have duplicate frame in FCP making the video look choppy.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
That will happen if you’re standards-converting, using PAL DV movies in an NTSC DV sequence.

[Gary Adcock]

[Annie] “The files play back in QT perfectly and QT identifies the codec as the same as FCStudios.”

Windows and linux use a different field order for DV material…

on the mac the NTSC dv fields are “lower” field first
there is no such thing as hi rez DV files on the mac this may have caused your issue.

gary adcock
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