[Dndobson]

Sounds like you did it right. 16:9 is the native HD size (except maybe 480p) so you either crop the edges or make it letter box.

[Dndobson]

bookends?

[Dndobson]

But you won’t be able to import PPro2.0 projetcs into AE6.5
Also, I was surprised when I tried to install PPro on my system and discovered that my CPU wasn’t new enough…it was only a few years old…but didn’t have some new instruction set built into it that PPro has to have.

[Dndobson]

the server is too slow.
but DV footage can be played back from USB2.0 or Firewire400 drives no problem, so the servers must be going really slow.

[Dndobson]

You can’t.
After Effects is no good as an editor and won’t play audio from the timeline.
You have to render it out to a avi or mov – or use the RAM preview or audio.
Usually, I edit in PPro and then make notes on paper for timings and then build animations in AE and either match the timeline exactly or just build separate pieces, then import them into to PPro for editing and checking timings.

Or well, that is the extent of my knowledge on the subject.

[Dndobson]

Do you have any reference for your notion that a capture card is needed?
The Apple FCP site says you can “capture and record” directly from your camera or deck using Firewire – exactly as you would capture DV.
There is no mention of a Video card needed.
Other people on this site have mentioned capturing and editing HDV directly through firewire and have not mentioned a video card.
I’ve a pretty good feeling you’re wrong about this.
I certainly don’t beleive that a computer can’t playback mpeg2 video, even the slowest computers these days can play a DVD, so why would FCP need enourmous computing power to do basically the same thing?
Oh, well, thanks for you comments, when I finally get a HDV tape in the deck, I’ll know for sure.
Just can’t quite believe Apple would be that deceptive – Sony maybe, but not apple.

[Dndobson]

How can that be?
It goes in and out the firewire cable, right?
The Blackmagic card doesn’t have a firewire port does it?
So why would I need the card? Even the data rate is supposed to be the same as DV.
There’s going to be some yelling around here if what your saying is true.

[Dndobson]

And I am doing all my titling in After Effects. If I need to match it to video, i just output the clips from FCP. Can’t stand the FCP titler. Don’t care for the Boris titler. Don’t really like Live Type much. The Avid Titler was good and the Marquee titler in the the Avid Adrenalyne was really good. But I don’t work on Avids at all anymore. And After Effects has some really nice preset text animations that make LiveType look like a toy.

[Dndobson]

You can select all in your DV sequence, copy, then paste it in the 10bit sequence. Then re-render. Ive never noticed a field problem in FCP5 where DV 480lines footage is playing back in a NTSC (486lines) sequence.

If you nest the DV sequence in the 10bit sequence, all the 10bit footage will be re-rendered, so nesting would be a bad idea.

[Dndobson]

FCP 5 also lets you remove the advanced pull down of already captured 24PAadvanced clips. (I think it’s under tools>remove advanced pulldown.) What I want to know is if there is away to remove the old fashioned regular pulldown of 24P. Seems like I have to go through After Effects to do that.