[Robert Mcintyre]

I’m about to start a long-form documentary project in FCP7 ultimately destined for DVD, BluRay & Vimeo distribution. I have approximately 100 hrs of footage from HDV tape, GoPro, Canon 5dII & III as well as Si-2k – all at 1080. Since edit will be ProRes, 29.97 sequence, I’m converting all footage to ProRes 29.97 in MPEG Streamclip first to avoid render issues once on FCP7 timeline. Conundrum arises about how to then log and then capture only clips I want to use into FCP7. For instance, I’ve converting entire HDV 60 min long tape to ProRes which results in one 60 min long .mov file. I’d like to then comb through that .mov and choose ins and outs (to avoid clunky HDV deck slog thru logging ins and outs), and then log these selected clips if at all possible. Any suggestions on workflow for this project would be greatly appreciated and I haven’t gotten too far along yet so fully able to change horse mid-stream at this point – other than FCP7 aspect!