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please look just 8 threads down for your answer
Steve Connor
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Hi, we had the same problem, you have DV downconvert set to ON in the menu, you need to switch this to OFF.
I know it’s not cool you can’t monitor through the HDV machine like you can in DV, it’s a limitation of the format NOT FCP. you need to add an HD card if you want pro quality video output or add a 23″ cinema display for monitoring via Digital Desktop.
Steve Connor
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Powered up today and I now get HDV video preview in capture window as well as when capturing – wasn’t working yesterday now it is, go figure!
Steve Connor
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You CAN do this in Soundtrack Pro!
Steve Connor
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Bob,
do you have a Kona 2 or Decklink HD card in your system? both of these give you the ability to downconvert to SD out from an HDV timeline in realtime. Converting HD material to SD via software is always a painful process, although your Compressor time seems a little high. I just tried a 3 minute sequence to best quality 10 bit uncompressed SD via Compressor and it took 20 minutes which is about 7x as opposed to your 16x and I have the same Dual 2.0 as you.
Steve Connor
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You just need the previous versions serial number
Steve Connor
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Hector,
firstly don’t shout – I can hear you fine, I wasn’t jumping down your throat, I was expressing an opinion that is different from yours.
If you actually read MY post it IS about workflow, fact is FCP gives you and end to end HDV solution. You actually end up with an HDV master that you can downconvert in realtime to DV for client delivery today, even if you have to split longer programmes on to two tapes. Then when the client comes back in a years time and wants it on HD DVD you have a master ready and waiting. To me that is a much more forward thinking workflow than just converting the whole lot to DV, plus the fact most of our clients want delivery on SD DVD today. If you encode directly from an HDV timeline to mpeg 2 it looks better than from a DV timeline, but it will take longer
May not work for some people, but for what WE need it’s great.
Steve Connor
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“HDV – I think that many people are not using there heads when it comes to HDV. Even if it only took 5 minutes to render a movie there’s nothing you can do with. There are no HD DVD or Blue Ray DVD players.”
So what! There will be and when there is you have a master on HDV! HDV quality in FCP is superb, I have spent two days testing the workflow and quality is outstanding. I basically cut a 3 minute sequence with 40 edits all dissolves. This took just 5 minutes to conform to HDV and was then printed to tape. I then recaptured the sequence into FCP – there was NO visible loss in quality. I then added about 30 seconds of captions, exported again, took 6 minutes this time and the quality was unafffected. OK text is not a pristine as uncompressed but to my eye it was no worse than text in DV.
However at the end of the day, the downconversion from HDV to DV from the M10 recorder is till better than the downconvert in FCP.
Basically I am very very happy with HDV in FCP5!
Steve Connor
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Version .0 Operating System, Version .0 Application, Version .0 Quicktime – it’s going to lead to problems somewhere. It’s a shame you had such a painful introduction to FCP, however if there is a bug (and it seems like there is) it will get fixed. That doesn’t help you now I’m afraid.
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Are those times from your G5?
Steve Connor
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