Mitchell, thanks. I'm starting a new project now that was shot with a Canon XH A1 at 30p. I set final cut to be HDV30p across the board, and capture settings being HDV. we'll see what happens. I did initially have it set to HDV30p with capture settings set to apple pro res 422 but this made my capture window look different....there were no options, just a screen showing me what is being captured.

Not sure if there will be a difference setting the capture codec to HDV vs. apple pro res 422.

If I did set the capture to apple pro res 422 with a timeline of HDV30p, wouldn't that cause issues? I would have to render the entire timeline to allow for the apple pro res 422 on a HDV 30p timeline?

Is this the golden rule?.... make it all HDV30p across the board OR apple pro res 30p across the board?

thanks!
steve

Honestly I've never captured as Pro Res.....sorry.

I would recommend capturing as HDV30p, but here's the important part.....create a new sequence and go to Modify>Sequence Settings. Go the Render tab and change the render from Same As Source to ProRes. That way, when ever FCP needs to render (graphics, multilayer video, etc...) it will render as ProRes. Slightly better quality, but more importantly rendering seems more consistent and dependable.

The challenge is to remember to do this every time you create a new sequence.

thanks for that tip....i am about 45 mins into a capture and it's set to same as timeline...damn. oh well, next time.

steve