Uncompressed HDV/HD in FCP 6.0

[Paul Escandon]

Uncompressed HD at 8-bit or 10-bit is possible in Final Cut Pro and I’ve done it before. I never had the bandwidth to handle 10-bit reliable, so I’ve worked in 8-bit uncompressed for various projects.

The data rate is a massive increase from DV or HDV or even something like DVCPRO HD or ProRes 422. Uncompressed 8-bit HD footage runs at 121.5 MB/sec and 10-bit uncompressed HD runs at 182.3MB/sec. Because of this – it’s not so much Final Cut that would choke first it would be your hard drives. You need to have a very fast raid array to be able to write to your disks at these rates. If you don’t have a raid set up then forget about it.

To give you a comparison, DV and HDV runs at 3.6 MB/sec and DVCPRO HD 1080i runs at 11.75 MB/sec. So uncompressed footage will be tens of times bigger as far as file size is concerned.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Ed Dooley]

You’re talking about 2 completely different things. HDV is already compressed (a lot) and is about 2.5 to 3 MB/s. Uncompressed can mean 720P, 1080i, 1080P. They have far, far, far higher data rates.
You should do a little Googling.
Ed

[Dawn Rider] “How difficult is it to work with uncompressed HDV/HD in FCP 6.0? Does anyone have any experience?

Also, how large isthe file of an hour of uncompressed”