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Workflow Question: Importing HD Footage to Imovie, then to FCP.
The steps I take is to import to Imovie first since FCP doesn’t support my camera. The Media is HD, which has worked in the past and has imported into FCP HD. But for some reason of late, the imported footage is getting converted to SD 29.97. Hopefully there is a fix since I no longer have the media on my camera 🙁
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Hi Gib,
If you start to say which camera you use and what kind of stuff shoots, much better.
rafael -
What does your camera shoot?
Do you have the raw card media on your hard drive?
Have you watched the Tapeless workflow tutorial here on the cow?Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Haven’t watched the tutorial….everything worked great before so I thought I had it down. Camera captures media to internal 32G storage (Canon HF – S20). Not sure about having the raw card on my drive?
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Hi, it’s a Canon HF-S20 (media captures to internal 32G storage).
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So, you don’t have the raw files?
You captured from the camera – straight into FCP?
Not good.If they were brought in as SD and you don not have the raw cam files, you have SD files. You could blow em up to HD…
ALWAYS, transfer your raw cam files to you hard drive. Then back em up to ANOTHER hard drive. These are your tape masters.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
THis is the tutorial…for future reference: Tapeless Workflow for FCP 7 Tutorial
Always back up the RAW footage. If you import the footage, then delete the RAW, then you can’t reimport from the raw to fix things like this. And using iMovie first…that’s rife with issues. No original timecode, no reel number, Apple Intermediate Codec is lossy…
Shane
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Sound advice. I definitely need to get an external drive for this purpose. I may be out of luck on this project, but I suppose coming across these problems now before I get my hands on client’s media in the future, is a good thing for my learning. Thanks for your input and thanks to Creative Cow for this platform.
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Thank you, I will try it today with some test footage.
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