Tom Meegan
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RAID 0 is probably not needed for HDV – it has a low data rate, but is very process intensive, so the bottle neck is usually the CPU, not the hard drive.
Having a second drive to back up your media is a pretty good idea, regardless. You can always go back to tape, but with drives as inexpensive as they are now, it makes sense to spend a little more up front to not have to go back to tape.
One down side to FCE and iMovie is the inability to batch capture. This is particularly troublesome if you do have to go back to tape, but probably won’t effect your workflow otherwise.
So, you’d probably be better off with two regulardrives, one to edit from, and one to back up your media, than with one RAID 0 drive.
Best of luck.
Tom
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The current version of Final Cut Pro ships as part of Final Cut Studio which includes DVDSP. If you use Final Cut Express, you will be able to use iDVD to create DVDs as well.
Tom Meegan
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You will probably be fine with iMovie. I’d try it on a project or two and see. If it works, use it.
If you are feeling constrained by iMovie I would look at Final Cut Express. Express is much less expensive than Final Cut Pro as part of Final Cut Studio, and will likely have all the functionality you need for your projects.
One note on RAID 0, which you probably already know – make sure you have a back up of any data you can’t lose. If one drive in the RAID 0 set fails, you will have nothing.
Best,
Tom
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The Codec I’d suggest is ProRes. Here is a white paper on why it would be a good choice:
images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/resources/white_papers/L342568A_ProRes_WP.pdf
Not sure what the best step out of AE would be. Probably keep it as ProRes and deal with the render time on your HDV time line.
You can set all of your renders in an HDV time line to be ProRes renders – probably a good idea.
Final Cut Pro > User Prefs
Then Render Control Tab.
Then Codec Drop down.
The dropped frames, etc have to do with the processor struggling to keep up with the overhead of HDV. There is a lot going on under the hood to make HDV work as an editing format.
Don’t know enough about the H1 to comment specifically, but I think in general 24fps HDV cameras are recording to 60i with pulldown. Might be a good idea to do an end to end test before you get too deep.
Best,
Tom
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Chris,
I don’t think this it possible. It should be, but isn’t.
A work around is to use time line markers or clip markers.
In the time line hit M twice and type the name of the marker. If nothing is selected the marker will be on the sequence. If the clip is selected the marker will attach to the clip.
Best,
Tom
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It may have to do with the Black Magic Design software. There is a BMD forum here on the Cow.
https://forums.creativecow.net/forum/blackmagicdesigndecklink
I’m an AJA guy myself, but assuming you’ve got FCP dialed correctly, it is probably Black Magic software setting.
Good luck.
Tom M
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Slightly off topic, but:
https://www.telestream.net/products/pipeline.htm
Saw this product at NAB. Allows 4 concurrent streams on a server AND you can start to edit in FCP while it continues to record. HD-SDI is not quite ready but they are working on it.
You could correct mistakes in the live cut as the assistant director marked them by using multi-clip in FCP. Just make the main stream the director’s cut, and create your own switch as needed.
If your budget is large, EVS servers support ProRes now. This solution is bullet-proof, but the price reflects that. The work flow is sweet.
Best,
Tom Meegan
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Copy the audio from the CD to your hard drive.
Convert the files to 48 Khz.
Import the 48 Khz files to your edit.
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Using another DV camera to capture the footage is unlikely to be a problem, and will not effect the image quality of the camera original footage.
To capture DV footage natively choose:
Final Cut Pro > Easy Set-Up > DV NTSC (or PAL)
If you shot 16×9 choose DV NTSC (or PAL) Anamorphic.
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Trashing prefs won’t help you once the change has happened, but might prevent it happening in the future.
Sorry you are having troubles.
Tom