[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks for your words David and forgive for have not answering before.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

They will be “b-cameras” for B-footage to be used on a video clip. Pocket Cameras like the Sony Bloggie.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks Mark.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Hi Mark,
This post of yours has almost 1 year. I’m not sure if anything changed or not but what you wrote was exactly what I needed to hear … lol.
By the way, do you think that I could do the same with some HDV footages as you said about the H264 ?
Thanks.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks Tony and Loren for your response.
I’m still a little lost about the best way to go with HDV. I will give a try to QT7 Pro as Loren has said just for a test because I’ve never used QT player for capture and I would like to see it.
Like Tony, my 2 cameras are HDV/Tape and I really would like to find a good workflow to put on practice when I have to use them.
When I got a job that needs a better camera I just rent them and usually are the Sony EX family. They are card cameras that have more discussions and solutions over the COW.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

I agree with Steve about the FUN of the speculation and those who like it could give me the numbers of the lottery .

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

“Jeff : All the conversions are done by external applications because FCPX is just way to slow if I leave it to do the conversion for me.”

Hi Jeff, I totally agree with you when you talk about the velocity of FCPX. What external applications do you use for that task, I meant, to make those files a Prores file ? I have Quicktime 7 and 10, MPEG Streamclip, iSkysoft Video Converter and Voltaic.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

I have been importing HDV directly into FCPX and edited without any problems. FCPX doesn’t make a Prores file out of HDV because it deals pretty well with HDV. But I was thinking if the job could be made easily and smooth if the HDV files are transcoded to Prores.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

“Claude Lyneus: You might need the resolution for future use.”

In this particular job, I will never see the footages again …. lol

“Jeff Kirkland: The advantage to shooting higher resolutions is that ‘over sampling’ by shooting at 1080 then reducing in post can help make footage from a less than great camera look better”

I totally agree.

“Jeff Kirkland: FCPX is built around ProRes and my advice is always to convert footage to ProRes before editing, even the other formats natively supported, as it just improves performance and saves headaches in the long run.”

Do you all believe it is true for all codecs supported by FCPX ? Including HDV ?

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Yep ….. Me too ….lol

Congratulations for you site and tools.

Fredy.

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