Mixing formats & Mpeg2

Shane Ross
July 21, 2008 at 5:33 pm

[Marc Ligon] “Can Final Cut Pro 5.0 mix with different formats (SD and HDV in this case) on the same timeline?”

Not without rendering one format. Mixed formats came with version 6.

[Marc Ligon] “Also, can FCP take Mpeg2 files?”

Not really. Gotta convert to an editable format. MPEG isn’t that. Delivery codec.

Shane

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Marc Ligon
July 21, 2008 at 5:42 pm

Thanks! An “Editable format” would be a Quicktime or AVI file I’m assuming? (if they can turn their HDV into SD files?)
Shane Ross
July 21, 2008 at 5:50 pm

[Marc Ligon] “An “Editable format” would be a Quicktime or AVI file I’m assuming?”

QT and AVI are just containers…there are many CODECS that they contain. What you need to do is look at the list in your EASY SETUPS. Those are the codecs you have to choose from. If the image is standard def, I suggest DV/NTSC or DV50.

Shane

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