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Final Cut Pro 6.0.2 and Pro Res 422Posted by Hamr
No. No update will ever make that possible. You need a capture card for this. The cheapest way to do this would be with the Decklink Intensity card.
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actually Shane the update does exactly what Hamr is asking ...
there are 2 new capture presets specifically which allow capture from HDV with realtime transcode directly to ProRes (or at least thats what the notes say, I haven't tested it) ? HDV-Apple ProRes 422 Use this capture preset to transcode HDV footage to the Apple ProRes 422 codec during capture. ?HDV-Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) Use this capture preset to transcode HDV footage to the Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) codec during capture. cheers Andy
Nooo....REALLY? I read the notes too, but thought that it still required a capture card. Man, if I only had and HDV camera and an Intel Mac to test this...
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blu ray or HDD don't come into it.
ProRes is basically a very high quality codec with a relatively low data rate where this really becomes useful is when working in HD. you an work at HD res with data rates and file sizes that are about the same as Standard Def Uncompressed. what this means is you dont need to shell out for hugely expensive drives. sure there's HDV, with it's DV type file sizes, but its a bear to work with in terms of grading and effects work. i've been working on a short film with a fair bit of (simple) compositing work. we've on-lined everything as full 10bit uncompressed HD, but i've been doing the effects work with ProRes copies. full frame size working off my internal dive! when i'm done i connect to the HD media. the new HDV to ProRes seems pretty cool: im also going to be working on a doco shot on HDV. there'd be too many rushes to capture as ProRes, but when we lock off, we could recapture the HDV as PRoRes, then give that to the colourists, (who are using Color)
Yes, you can capture via firewire to pro res 422. On my set up I have a dual 2.7 gig machine, not the latest intel machines and I capture HDV as pro res, it is a straight uncontrolable device type capture, no in and out points, it starts were the tape head is on your deck and just captures.
kevin
HI Kevin...wow thanks for that.
Is it just like the capture now setting on FCP...does it break it into subclips where you have turned your camera off and on? The Pro Res 422 capture is it 8 bit or 10 bit and what color space 4:2:2 from HDV tape? What are the benefits you have noticed to native HDV? better quality? Ham
The damage was done during the filming with HDV so the image isn't better. Fx and compositing after capture will be better because of the better color space. Don't know about the subclips. It does give time code on my capture. It is not like the capture now setting. You don't get a dialogue box with buttons, it just starts capturing the moment you hit "apple 8".
Kevin
I'm about 400-500 hours of footage into a project that will probably go for another 100-200 hours of footage (documentary series). We have captured everything so far as HDV 1080i60. We were hoping that capturing directly into AIC would speed up outputs and renders. By all accounts, it would. We would, of course, need time code, though. Capturing into AIC makes the media too big for our storage capabilities anyway - about 4x that of HDV.
Hans
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