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Problem playback with HD footage
Hi there,
I am editing HD footage shot on a Sony HDV Z1. I have a G5 (single–1.8) and FCP 5. It is dropping frames like crazy. I can play through it by changing my settings and playing over dropped frames. However, I am editing a music video, and my cuts need to be frame accurate. But the playback isnt rame accurate. I think Ive made a cut on the beat, and it turns out–I havent.
How do I best deal with the footage? And if there is no quick answer, is there a way fro me at least, once most of the editing is done, to do something so I can at least watch the same way twice, and output it?
Thanks!
Camille
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1 Reply
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Are you editing in the HDV settings? If so, that is your problem. In order to edit in the HDV codec, you’ll need a capture card that supports HDV playback. Secondly, I would have to say that you computer is a little on the slow side for HDV. HDV in its native codec really needs a super computer to run. I would have to say that most of us using HDV capture it using our capture cards into another codec.
Sony even mentions that HDV is really a transport stream, not a playback stream. That’s why it doesn’t edit very well at all. It has to convert the video from data to video and back to data in real time – that doesn’t work very well. Ingesting it as DVCPRO HD or uncompressed 1080i works wonderfully with HDV if you have a converter box like the AJA HD10A or the Mirdana HDV-Bridge.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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