Bob O'brien
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This is exactly the same problem I am having… except that I’m using FCP 4.5 (HD). Just bought a new firewire cable – didn’t solve the problem.
Bobo
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Hi Videobiker.
Unless there is something new in FCP I don’t know about, you have NEVER been able to mix resolutions in a FCP timeline. If you do, yes, it has to be rendered.
If all of your clips are alreadsy captured, the only way around this is to export all your clips to a common format and use that setting as your sequence setting. Of course, ideally, you would have captured each clip through you Kona card to a common compression format.
Hope this helps.
Bobo
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I don’t know. Despite all this HDV compression stuff, the footage playing in the Sony booth looked the best. FAR better than JVC’s in my opinion. Granted, the Sony’s footage was transferred to HDCam for editing and playback, but I would assume Panasonic and JVC did the same type of thing.
This may be just marketing, but the Sony rep criticized the JVC camera for having an SD lens, whereas the lens on the Sony was made for HD. It has an awesome zoom range too.
As for Panasonic, unless you’re a news person, I just can’t see P2 being viable. I have footage for my corporate clients from the late 80’s that still use! I would have to archive the P2s somehow, which would take time – and saving time is part of the point, no?
DVCPro50 and 100 on P2 without the MPEG2 compression, yes, that’s a great advantage. But with the cost of the P2 chips right now, I just don’t see it as the best solution.
Bobo