Best settings for HV10 capturing and editing on FCP?

[Javier Salinas]

Hi there!
I just bought a brand new HV10 and I'm new with HDV. Does anybody knows wich are the best settings to capture and editing HDV footage? Thank you very much!!

[Lee Wilson]

Originally Posted by Javier Salinas

Hi there!
I just bought a brand new HV10 and I'm new with HDV. Does anybody knows wich are the best settings to capture and editing HDV footage? Thank you very much!!

Spain is PAL Not NTSC... is that right ?

For FCP: In the Menu >> Easy Set-up >> HDV Apple intermediate codec 1080i 50.

or use iMovie (which automatically sets itself up the same as above).

[Luis A. Diaz]

Originally Posted by Lee Wilson

Spain is PAL Not NTSC... is that right ?

For FCP: In the Menu >> Easy Set-up >> HDV Apple intermediate codec 1080i 50.

or use iMovie (which automatically sets itself up the same as above).

I thought that FCP was able to do native HDV editing, as opposed to non-native like iMovie or Premier that use intermediate codecs.

I have been looking to purchase FCP for this reason but now that you mention this, I don't know if this is the only way for the HV-10 or because it is the easier way to do it on FCP.

Thanks,
Luis

[Evan C. King]

FCP 5 and up definetly has native hdv, you can' use the intermediate if you want but there is native hdv too.

[Javier Salinas]

Yes Lee it's PAL.

Thanks for the suggetions guys. I captured some clips on HDV already and looks cool.

Now the problem is that FCP divides the clip in subclips when I capture. It's divided on the different takes that I recorded. For example: I named the clip "Moon" and I got "Moon-1", "Moon-2", "Moon-3", "Moon-4" and so on. I'd like to have all the takes on the same clip.

How can I avoid that? Is it a setting that I should change on the camera or in FCP?

Thank you in advance!!

[Tomas Chinchilla]

When you open "log and capture" you'll see it's got 3 tabs on the top right "Clip Settings", uncheck "Create new clip on Start/Stop" and that should fix your problem.

[Lee Wilson]

Originally Posted by Luis A. Diaz

I thought that FCP was able to do native HDV editing

Sure does.

[Javier Salinas]

Thank you Tomas, but I'm not upgraded yet. I still work with 5.0 and it doesn't have this option.

Any other idea? I've check a few posts from another users with the same problem but nothing new.

Thanks!

[Luis A. Diaz]

Originally Posted by Lee Wilson

Sure does.

Lee:

I presume that if it does native it will require a powerful Mac at least a G5 with dual core at least 2Ghz with lots of ram, maybe 2-4 Gigs and a fast video card.

Will a Mac Pro with Intel dual core 2.66GHz and 2Gig of Ram fit the bill for smooth, no bogdown, native editing in real time????

My Mac is a single processor PowerPc G5 1.8GHz with 512 MB of Ram and nVidia GeForce Fx5200. I think that is the bare minimum FCP will run.

Thanks,
Luis

[Lee Wilson]

Originally Posted by Luis A. Diaz

Lee:

I presume that if it does native it will require a powerful Mac at least a G5 with dual core at least 2Ghz with lots of ram, maybe 2-4 Gigs and a fast video card.

'Native' usually is easier on FCP and not harder.

HDV is 25mbps - DV is 25mbps they both are stored in the same area on the same tape format - HDV is not much more of a strain on your system that good ol' DV - HDV (MPEG-2) is simply more efficient than DV encoding.

A good computer will make life easier but you do not have to sell the house to edit HDV. Many people edit on systems much lower than those specs.

Originally Posted by Luis A. Diaz

Will a Mac Pro with Intel dual core 2.66GHz and 2Gig of Ram fit the bill for smooth, no bogdown, native editing in real time????

Certainly, keep the timeline in FCP set up the same as your footage and you should have no problems, I edit on a 2hz G4 with 1 gig of ram and have had no problems.