[Will Granzier]

Hi Andrew

Well I can tell you that I have done it with 720p Shot on a JVC.

I did my edit in FCP, when I captured I captured as Pro REZ, I edited in Pro Rez. Then I exported as Pro Rez.

I then opened a std DV 48khz time line and copied the exported clip in.

FCP will warn you about the clip not matching your time line footage, and will wan to adjust the timeline to match the footage, when asked say NO…. and you should Have it… Well thats how I did it and it worked. It will have to render for a bit, but that should do

[Will Granzier]

Ok a bit of an update – I did a Disk Warrior Check and all is oK. I have now loaded 3 DV cassettes onto another drive – a 1TB onboard SATA, and the same thing ???

No I am lost

[Will Granzier]

Ok

This was shot on a JVC 101 in normal DV mode

I captured into FCP on the preset PAL 48knz Codec – Nothing tweaked as standard. Time line settings are the same PAL 48khz STD. I am not running any special video cards as a Kona or AJA and I have no video monitor. I have included a sample pic to show you.

Last night I tracked it down to footage off one drive set only. BTW the footage was captured to an WD Studio 2 external 1TB drive. Now I have dug a bit deeper and I have tracked this problem to this drive only. It connects via FW800. My mind goes – could the drive be going !?

[Will Granzier]

Hi John

Nope no demo packs installed. I had a chat with Larry Jordan and he thought it would probably be the FCP prefs that went bad. So I trashed those. My initial thought was bad ram, but that would show up under Apple Diagnostics ?

[Will Granzier]

Hey Tom

Thnx for the response. See I want it letterboxed – not streched vertically.

[Will Granzier]

Thnx Guys that one really helped out – Shot Some surfing in Cape Town SA and it was a tad over cast – Had to use a long lens 70 optical to get the pictures so some shots were a bit grey. As you know shooting in surf is always a bummer. But your advice helped big time

[Will Granzier]

Ok Sorry Tom never saw that bit. But its shouldnt make a difference as its MOV native anyway. I tried it this morning on an iBook running v 4.
Works fine just copying the file to HD and then importing from there.

But I must point out that although I agree that 6.0.2 might be a better option, the G5 will handle the footage . Render times will be a pain compared to a Quad Pro Duo, but depends on how much time u have and what workload and deadlines ure on

[Will Granzier]

Hi Anthony

I disagree with Tom as I run the same setup and have never had an issue. It does however take a tad longer to render than say a 3HZ Quad Pro. How fast is fast enough ? Well I suppose it all adds up to how much money you have !

I have never had an issue with my HDM100 which shoots in the same format – Quick question Are you running FCP 6 , 6.02 or later ?

Did you use FCP’s LOG and TRANSFER to get the footage off the cards ?
Or did you create a folder on the drive and then copy the footage into it from there importing into FCP ?

John has a valid point on the XD cam setting

William

[Will Granzier]

Hi John

More than sufficient – Just get a nice fast external drive – either e-sata , raid 0 or a good FW800 unit like a WD Studio pro 2 with Raid 0 or 1 option and ur flying !

If you have money for a good card like a Blackmagic or AJA get one, but its not essential

WIlliam

[Will Granzier]

Hi Justin

I dont know the DVX that well, but in FCP 50i is standard DV 48khz. The 50i footage will work in the timeline without any major changes but I would de-interlace – so its a closer match in export.

We shoot sport programs in 16:9 and I have had a few guys shoot on DVX 100 and they all use the 16:9 setting and not squeeze. In workflow it is the same as the Sony’s and JVC’s at the same setting.

I would use the DV Anamorphic – Cant tell u what the diffs are.

William