[Editor Mayhem]

[editor mayhem] ”
I’m wondering if anyone has had any luck with being able to combine DVCPro-HD 720p 30 footage with HDV 1080i footage in a single timeline in FCP6. I’m hoping this might work, as it would make my life much easier.”

[SEAN] Its supposed to work. That’s one of the touted features. If I wasn’t still waiting for my upgrade to arrive I could tell you more. Lots of discussion already on it though.

[editor mayhem] “I was thinking that one potential solution might be to upres the HDV footage to DVPro-HD using a Kona card,”

[sean] 1080i -> 720p is actually downrezing.

MAYHEM: But Progressive is remarkedly better looking than Interlaced, and I need to view the cut on my apple monitor, because I’m not playing out to an external monitor.

What are you mastering to for delivery? That is the format you should capture everything at. If you don’t know yet, I would actually capture everything at 1080i (DVCProHD or P-JPEG) since you won’t lose any resolution and the quality is probably good enough for online..

MAYHEM: ultimately, it will go to HD broadcast on a PBS affiliate, but it will online uncompressed 10-bit.

SEAN:The good news for you is that both formats have the same framerate. So no matter what you do, you shouldn’t have any problems doing a batch recapture (Uncompressed for example) for when you online it.

Sean

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