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Is Final Cut the best way to capture Footage or is Imovie???
Is final cut the best way to capture footage?
The studio I just started working at is using IMovie to capture their footage.Is there any significant difference?
my gut would tell me that FCP is best. But I was curious to know the actual reasoning why. Does Imovie automatically compress footage when its imported?
Thanks!
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Last time I used iMovie, which was a while ago, it was capture video as .dv files.
This is not good for FCP. One reason is .dv combines audio and video, whereas FCP allows you do keep them separate, enabling more flexibility.
I’m not sure how iMovie captures HD though. Even if the HD files are compatible with FCP, I highly doubt iMovie supports good editing codecs like ProRes or DVCPro HD
Rob Grauert, Jr.
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Yea. Good point. These videos would be taken right into After Effects to be keyed out. In order to get a good key we need good quality footage 🙂 And with Imovie I think we’re losing some quality
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You gut is probably right, but it depends entirely on what format you’re working in and what the media is you have to ingest.
All the best,
Tom
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In order to capture ProRes in FCP do I need the aja io box or can I just do a live feed into FCP
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wow!!! gold and shiny on green screen! Congrats on getting a good key.
The studio has Sony HDV digital HD camera recorder-HDR FX1
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You should be able to convert to ProRes during ingest via firewire. Although, if you shot HDV at 1080, you’re stuck with the 1440X1080 resolution. Not sure if that causes issues with keying though. I believe HDV 720p is still 1280X720 though, which is good.
…just thought I’d throw it out there
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iMovie does not capture timecode. A professional editor wouldn’t be caught dead without timecode.
That place is doing it all wrong.
Shane
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I used to use iMovie to capture while transitioning to FCP. The day I learned Log and Capture in FCP is the day I stopped using iMovie.
As others have alluded to, iMovie capture is good for iMovie, but not much else.
If you are capturing DV, it creates wonky DV files. When you bring them into FCP, you have to render the audio.
If you are capturing AVCHD, iMovie will capture as Apple Intermediate Codec which uses a 4:2:0 colour space, and captures 1920 x 1080 as 1440 x 1080.
About the only reason I can think of using iMovie is because of its “Project Library” feature.
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[Shane Ross] “iMovie does not capture timecode. A professional editor wouldn’t be caught dead without timecode.
That place is doing it all wrong.”
Absolutely.
“.dv” is to work in iMovie and forget other workflows.
“.dv” its doesn’t degrades de picture (pure DV), but crunch the audio to 32 Khz.
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Right, that’s what I thought. Currently the studio is utilized in 2 ways.
1. Shooting an internet TV show with a Tri-caster that pre keys the video for them(in real time) and replaces it with a background of their choice.
2. Shooting talent on a green screen with a sony hdr-Fx1. The final output being for the web (transparent layover video).
The process as of now is capturing the footage via imovie
Importing the files into AE, keying out footage
Exporting files to FLV with alpha.The main issues I am seeing is the low quality of the footage in Imovie compared to what I see on the tri caster.
Thats why I was concluding that Imovie must be the problem, and FC the solution.
It could be something else but I wanted to get everyone opinion before I do any tests.
Thanks for all the info more is WELCOME!!
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