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Offline Help
Just wondering if anyone can help.
I’m still learning this so please excuse the description. I’ve been using a Canon HV10 and Final Cut Pro (5.1.4)
I’ve shot a couple of HDV tapes of footage and now I need to edit it up. The footage is 1440x1080i. The final output will be about 30mins and needs to be 1440×1080 25fps
I’ve got FCP set up and it works perfectly, but is only efficient if i’m doing short bits and pieces. Too much HDV footage (kills my computer HD space/speed)
So can anyone help me set up an low-res project (offline) ideally at 400×225 25fps, so that I can edit with ease.. then tell me how I swap back the bits I want (the edit) to HD footage
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks in advance all.
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5 Replies
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This would be rad if you could tell us what kind of computer you are using and what storage you are using, you see hdv is a small bandwidth by this I mean it shouldn’t really be much of a problem to edit it at all, perhaps there is something, outside of final cut which should be looked at….
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Right now I’m using a Quad-G5 with 8 GB of Ram. I’ve ove only got 60GB left to play with though..
What you think?
I’d still like to know how to do it.. I’m sure I saw it done before too.
Thank
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it looks like your computer is more than capable of handling the HDV material, I use DV compression as offline, so if your camera has an SD DV setting switch it to output that and then use DV as your compressor, however I’m sure HDV is similar or even less than DV……
In an ideal world I would use a separate drive for your footage like a lacie or a Graid if money is an issue, however we use xserve raid and one thing that we have found is that if we load our disks up to only having thirty gigs left we experience playback and editing problems, perhaps this is what you are experiencing…… try deleting anything you don’t need and see how you get on, one tell tale sign for us is when we are capturing and it freezes. However it looks like you said you already have this footage captured.
Unfortunatly I am unable to help you with a smaller screen size than 720 pal as I am unaware that this even exists in final cut pro set ups. offline RT might be something to look at it use jpeg compression I believe.
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Thanks for you advice..
It’s just i’m trying to figure out how to set it up and how you switch a low-res off line for HD footage easily.. I’m sure I’ve seen it done.
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Like the person said before HDV because of its compression has about the same bandwidth needs and file size as DV douse. So I see no reason why you would need to edit a lower resolution. One big reason to offline is to save drive space when working with uncompressed video, and because HDV and DV will take up just about the same amount of hard drive space, so you will gain nothing there.
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