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Open the files in Quicktime and check the frame rates of the individual clips in there. Open in Quicktime and choose Window–>Show Movie Inspector (command + I is the shortcut). That will show you frame rate, data rate, resolution, and codec information.
Also what resolution are the clips? 480p? 720p? 1080p? Is your sequence set up properly (i.e. matches what’s being put on there)?
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If you’re doing research then you should probably spend more time researching on the internet. Less posting (you also have a post over at Yahoo asking the same question). More reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDV
https://www.videoguys.com/blog/PL/0xaee41a9c1ffc208f2c3dc555a67f85d9.aspx
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It works just like Shane described. You plug your camera into your Mac via Firewire, select the appropriate HDV setting, and capture.
HDV is a long-GOP MPEG-2 codec. It works fine in FCP as far as editing and transitions go. When you export you’ll probably notice that it takes awhile to export a finished timeline – this is the nature of HDV. If you would rather forgo that aspect of it then capture it using the prescribed HDV easy setup and then transcode those captured HDV files to ProRes.
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Shane – Just a small caveat to your post. The C300 only shoots an 8-bit MPEG-2 Long GOP format. I wish it were 10 bit, but Canon didn’t give us that.
https://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/professional_cameras/cinema_eos_cameras/eos_c300#SpecificationsEdwin – as Shane said, regular Apple ProRes or HQ are the way to go. I’ve been using standard ProRes with the footage from our C300 and it looks great.
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Darren ~ I don’t think I’d go that far. FCP7 is still an extremely capable NLE. Slower in comparison to PP or MC – yes, but it’ll still get the job done.
Karim ~ You’re MacBook Pro should still get the job done. However, because your video card is ATI you won’t get the great benefits of the Mercury Playback Engine that harnesses the power of CUDA technology from Nvidia. CS6 should start to change this as Darren alludes to since they will begin integrating more Open CL code to harness the power of ATI cards (since that’s all that Macbook Pro’s ship with currently). Also impacting your playback will be where you store your media – is it on a network attached RAID, a firewire drive, a USB drive, an internal hard drive, etc. Also what type of media – SD, HD, ProRes, Uncompressed, etc. Further how many filters, FX, etc are you applying in the timeline.
Realtime playback is great and PP is making leaps and bounds in that area, but there are limits. There are always limits! If you have an older machine (i.e before 2010) that can impact things. The very nature of being on a laptop instead of a desktop is a limitation as laptops don’t have the same muscle as a desktop (memory, processing cores, GPU, etc.). I haven’t gotten my hands on CS6 yet, so I can’t speak to whether or not that would help your situation. However, running ATI video cards (as your Macbook Pro is) certainly impacts your ability for smooth realtime playback.
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What type of video card do you have? I’m running an Nvidia Quadro card and export times are radically reduced compared to FCP7.
I’ve also had the blue alpha channel problem and don’t yet know of a fix for it. I’m hoping CS6 address it.
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2nd link in the above Google search:
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=download+prores+codecFollow the instructions in the comments:
https://blogs.adobe.com/VideoRoad/2011/09/prores-codecs-now-a-free-download.htmlRyan Holmes
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