Final Cut Pro is NOT HDV ready

Hi,
Final Cut Pro 5 is not HDV ready! HDV is several system : 1080i50 ? 1080i60 ? 720p24 ? 720p25 ? 720p30 ? 720p50 ? 720p60. To tell us FCP is HDV ready, it must support all those system; but FCP just support 1080i and 720p30. I think it's not very serious for a professionnal software. I have contact Apple Support but there is no information about that! But the guy of the support tell me if a lot of person ask about this problem Apple will do an update. So I advice all FCP users to contact Apple support to tell that.
If Apple don't change that, i think i will change my editing software

Francois Bontemps
film maker

As I just put a question 5 mm above, at least I should give an opinion here. I do edit 1080p24 and have absolutley no problem with it
Best
Istvan

"I do edit 1080p24 and have absolutley no problem with it"
but HDV isn't only 1080 it is 720 too

what other "PRO" software supports the propriety format that JVC came up with that is not part of the HDV1 spec?
Avid?
sorry they only support HDV 1080i and 720p30 on their PC system (express only), Mac support for them is planned for later release.
Pinnacle?
opps they were bought by Avid and only Avid express supports HDV at this point

looks like Canopus is the only one
you need the EDIUS NX with HS expansion it is $2098us Regular and that is just for the card you also need a program like Adobe Premier.
Oh ya you need to transcode to the Canopus Codec loosing a generation from a already overly compressed format

guess that is what happens when manufactures create new formats outside of set specs
the original specs from the HDV consortium in 2002-2003 called for 3 formats 1080i60, 1080i50, 720p30



Post Edited (03-03-06 10:25)

David at Movies Rock in Toronto
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HDVxDV is needed with 24P. Or Lumiere. Apple cant be blamed for not supporting this. They will one day but they didn't build the camera. Sony did.

And JVC...and Canon. They all built cameras that, when they came out, NO ONE supported. Now they are in limited ways. It is a darn difficult format to work with.

Do your research before you buy and work with ANY camera to make sure that support exists for what you want to do.

I've had flawless results editing 1080i from the Sony H1U but recently discovered that FCP5 won't recognize JVC's 720p/24. Hopefully soon they will because I feel it's the best of the HDV camcorders. Nice lens too.