Ingesting DVCPRO HD as Pro Res 422 In FCP
by paul colin
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Nov 5, 2009 at 4:24:39 pm
To all,
I would like to ingest DVCPRO HD footage from P2 cards from a panasonic card reader(over USB 2)into FINAL CUT PRO directly as PRO RES 422. Is there plug in for this? Can this be done?
I'm using FCP 6.06.
Thanks for your help,
Best,
Paul Colin,
Cezanne Studio, NYC
Re: Ingesting DVCPRO HD as Pro Res 422 In FCP by paul colin on Nov 5, 2009 at 6:27:01 pm
Thanks Jeremy,
As I feared it can't be done directly.
However I do have a Kona 3 card. Is there any way to convert
the output of the P2 reader to HD SDI? Probably not, but I thought I'd ask anyways.
Thanks again!
Re: Ingesting DVCPRO HD as Pro Res 422 In FCP by paul colin on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:18:47 pm
Jeremy,
I'm doing a very short show with footage from various sources, in addition to the HPX500. So my thought was to cut the whole thing in Pro Res 422, which I find preferable than converting everything to DVCPro HD. But perhaps my thinking is flawed.
Thanks,
Paul
Re: Ingesting DVCPRO HD as Pro Res 422 In FCP by Noah Kadner on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:45:34 pm
Just bring in the DVCPROHD as DVCPROHD. Cut the additional footage in the same timeline. When you're done export everything as ProRes. Unless you capture say to an AJA IO HD to ProRes live as you're shooting from the component output of your camera, you gain zero from converting already shot footage from DVCPROHD to ProRes.
Re: Ingesting DVCPRO HD as Pro Res 422 In FCP by Jeremy Garchow on Nov 6, 2009 at 3:51:21 pm
[paul colin]"But perhaps my thinking is flawed."
No, but it won't gain you much to transcode it all. Just work in a ProRes timeline to add all the rest of your footage, and just plop in the DVCPro HD files in that timeline and edit. Not a big deal.
Re: Ingesting DVCPRO HD as Pro Res 422 In FCP by paul colin on Nov 6, 2009 at 4:06:04 pm
Thanks Jeremy,
That's what I have done. BUT I was a having problems with the dropped frames warning every few seconds. That shouldn't be as my media drive is a hefty 4 TB Cal Digit HD pro that I keep well maintained w/Disk Warrior.
So my thinking was that the Pro Res timeline wasn't liking the DVC Pro footage, ergo the stalls.
Perhaps that was coincidental with some other issue. There were no effects/color correx or anything else added on the footage.
Thanks for your help.