[David Battistella] "
This is a hardware driven solution and it means that somewhere along the line something suffers. Why not just capture everything to the same codec."
Not so with the old CineWave system I owned. In the case of the 40th Anniversary of Lamborghini project we did two years ago, we had over 25 hours of DVCAM footage to condense down to a 90 minute feature and 2 hours of bonus material. I simply captured the entire project in DV, but edited in an 8bit Uncompressed timeline, in real-time, for all graphics and color correction.
Would have been a waste of drive space to capture everything 8bit Uncompressed since I'm not going to magically get more image quality from the DV. The image quality off the CineWave was outstanding.
So yes, Mixed formats in the same timeline is a huge feature that's greatly lacking from any FCP solution today. It's sorely needed in my workflow today as I get mixed formats even in HD.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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