David Dobson
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You can also use NERO (burning ROM) version 8 – it converts AVCHD to HDV which PP can edit natively. https://www.nero.com/eng/nero8-introduction.html
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Apple’s HDV quicktime codec is not available on the PC.
You have export HDV footage to something else (animation, DVcProHD – if you are down converting straight to NTSC DV.) -
Something like that. I’ve done it enough times to be able to say that you don’t need to worry about it too much. Avid seems to be able to handle it fine (at least the Avid Adrenalin did, not sure about the older AVBV Avids.)
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Working so far….
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The best way to print HDV to tape is to export the entire edit (I include bars and tones and slates and 30 seconds of black at the end) as a Self-Contained Movie. Then import that into FCP and print that to tape with RT set to Safe and Playback to Tape set to full. (When the picture is absolutely locked, I’ll even discard all the render files up to that point before exporting just to be sure it encodes from the sources only — it takes about 4-6 hours to render 30 minutes of an HDV edit, depending complexity and effects, so plan on an overnight render before layback….I think the time is the same if you just let the FCP do the “conform,” But then if you stop the layback for some reason, you have to wait again for the conform (some people have claimed that the wait isn’t as long the second time, but I could never wait long enough to find out.))
RT Extreme is meant to reduce quality to give you real time playback during editing, (and with HDV it is hardpressed to do even that), but that should not be on during record under any circumastances as it will reduce the quality of the recorded playback. HDV is even more problematic, since the an enitre edit must be “conformed” before the layback can start, so using Unlimited RT doesn’t even seem possible (though you’d think FCP would know that and ignore the RT settings.)
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First off, is there a “.mov” extension after the file name? Mac’s don’t add them and PC’s don’t know what to do with files that don’t have the exention.
If the .mov is there, than it may be that the codec used to encod the movie isn’t compatable with quicktime on PC (for instance, the HDV coded for quicktime is only available on the Mac. PC’s can work in HDV but they use the Mpeg files and don’t wrap them in a quicktime or AVI container.)
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Makes sense, just seems like too much work.