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Capture HDV via Firewire into ProRes 422
Published by Matthew Jeppsen January 28th, 2008 in Formats, News, TutorialsOne of the features added in Final Cut Studio 2 is the ability to capture and transcode HDV sources directly into ProRes 422. For editors that want to avoid the pain of long-GOP MPEG render times, ProRes is an extremely useful codec. The Cow’s Chris Poisson has a short tutorial that will lead you through all the steps. With the exception of a short lag time the process essentially happens “on the fly.”For more discussion on this workflow’s advantages and pitfalls, read this post by Shane Ross.
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Why would you want to bother?
Simply capture HDV and set the timeline rendering option to ProRes 422 is an ideal option for HDV and XDCAM HD material. All effects and transitions are rendered in ProRes anyway.
I don’t know too many Intel Macs that struggle with HDV these days and transcoding to ProRes seems like a exercise in increasing the size of your project for little little pay off.