[Gregory Brosnan]

Thanks for the tip Jeremy, i just tried a batch recapture of a tape of the AIC stuff and FCP couldn’t find any timecode. Hoping to have more luck with native HDV! Greg

[Gregory Brosnan]

thanks David, will add one to the wish list, regards, Greg

[Gregory Brosnan]

Hi David, thanks very much for the time and advice, that clears things up a lot and the time/money trade off is definitely something to mull.

A follow up question – maybe I’m a dummy who’s swallowed the market spin, but i was led to think that quality, reliable hard drive space cost a lot more than 100 bucks per TB – that’s why i bought two expensive 2TB G-Raid disks, at about $400 each. Am I a sucker? Any recommendations on brands, types?

Also, If HDV and AIC are both intermediate codecs, that must be changed at delivery, is there any industry preference at the moment for one or the other? For most broadcast output, would the tv station, etc convert itself, or would you be expected to convert to a broadcast format? What formats? How would you do that?

I will read that article you pointed out straight away, thanks very much.

I would still like to hear from anyone about mixing AIC and HDV together on timelines. Would that complicate export to a high-quality streamable format or eventual transcoding into a professional tape format? Right at this moment I can’t afford even an extra $100 of disk space, so have to make the best of the disk space I have for capturing the footage I have right now.

Regards, Greg

[Gregory Brosnan]

Thanks David, well I have about 800 G of footage stored so far, and that’s after plenty of whittling down. It’s an independent, mostly self-funded doc I expect will eventually run to about 45 mins. What I have is the stuff I’m definitely going to use, and stuff that I still might use. My project is about a third of the way through in terms of capturing, so I’d be pushing my 2 TB drive to its operating boundary if I carry on capturing using AIC. Additional hard drive space might be cheaper these days, but still not cheap enough for me to spend any more cash on it for now!

One of the reasons I’m doing this is because I have to recapture much of my footage anyway following a desktop drive collapse, when I had no back up disk. That’s mainly why I’m considering the format change. Maybe I could import everything from now on using HDV instead of AIC. The two formats seem to work fine side by side in the timeline? If anyone sees any potential issues with that in the export/delivery stage, I’d love to hear from them.

I’m still also very keen to hear any additional feedback from anyone on the technical process of converting from AIC to HDV using the media manager, and of the pros and cons of capturing/editing/delivering in HDV vs AIC.

Thanks again, any help very much appreciated, Greg

[Gregory Brosnan]

hi there, following on from this forum, i want to import a final cut express 3.5 project filmed in HDV into Final cut pro 6. Do i simply open the final cut express file as if it were a final cut pro file? will it pick up all my sequences, bins, log comments? I didn’t get the bit about time code not being imported from HDV. I’d appreciate any advice. Cheers