[Scott Busch] " I'm not sure if we should be capturing from the HD miniDV tape to the Apple ProRes codec or to HDV codec"
Depends on how much footage you have, how many hours of tape, how much storage. HDV is 13.6GB/hour...ProRes422 is 63GB/hour. You can do the math from there.
[Scott Busch] " I've been told that if I wanted to capture in Apple ProRes, my MacBook Pro would not be powerful enough and that I would need to capture on a Mac Pro. Is this correct? "
Nope...you can do it on the laptop. And you can use the HDV to PRORES via Firewire trick, but know that when you do that, if you lose the footage for any reason, you will have to recapture FROM SCRATCH, and re-edit that into the cut. It doesn't take into account pre-roll...and you cannot capture those already logged clips in this manner. Best to have a capture device to do this...and the only ones that work on a laptop are the MXO 2 series, and AJA IO HD.
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
[Scott Busch] "I want to make sure that if the footage was shot at 23.98/1080p, then the editing sequence should be at 24p, correct? "
Being that it was shot to TAPE, then the footage will be recorded at 29.97, and you'll have to remove the pulldown to get to 23.98. You can't do that with HDV native footage...you have to convert to ProRes to reverse telecine to 23.98. And AFAIK, you can't capture HDV as 23.98... but then again, my HDV experience is limited.
[Scott Busch] " If the footage is captured in ProRes 422 codec, will the colorist need to recapture the selects in 1:1 or is ProRes 422 a high enough codec where recapturing for color correction wouldn't be necessary?"
ProRes 422 is an ONLINE codec. Full res. Like DNxHD 145 and 220. No recapturing needed.
[Scott Busch] "If the Colorist will need to recapture, should I be capturing in Final Cut in a certain way or doing anything special to make his/her life easier?"
The Colorist will only need to recapture if you capture as on offline codec, like Offline RT, or ProRes Proxy. But if you DID do that, the usual rules apply: Make sure you have a REEL number, proper timecode, enough room for Preroll...and NAME THE FOOTAGE. Whenever I see a bin of UNTITLED and UNTITLED-1...heads roll!
Shane
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