My client wants footage delivered on HDcam. I shot about an hour with the Canon HV20 in the cinemode (24f). I have a post house using Final Cut (same as me) that will output to HD Cam but I am unsure what exactly to deliver.

I usually capture in the 108024p - Easy Set Up, which captures the HV20 footage to 29.98/1080i60. Can I drop the footage into a 1080i60 timeline and make a self contained QT with the those settings, have the post house import my quicktime on the same timeline and output? Or do I need to remove pulldown before I output to HD Cam?

Thanks.

Never seen that workflow, ever.

Best thing to do is ask the post-house this question, that way you're not guessing and their editors will get exactly what they need.

My client wants footage delivered on HDcam. I shot about an hour with the Canon HV20 in the cinemode (24f). I have a post house using Final Cut (same as me) that will output to HD Cam but I am unsure what exactly to deliver.

I usually capture in the 108024p - Easy Set Up, which captures the HV20 footage to 29.98/1080i60. Can I drop the footage into a 1080i60 timeline and make a self contained QT with the those settings, have the post house import my quicktime on the same timeline and output? Or do I need to remove pulldown before I output to HD Cam?

Thanks.

This is not too different from what we are doing (acquire HDV, process in ProRes, master to HDCAM). You might want to render out the .mov as something non-HDV like ProRes HQ, but I believe the pulldown should stay.

thanks ben. question is do i need to process in prores? could I output a self contained 1080i60 QT and transfer that to the HD Cam? remember the footage shot on HV20 was in 24.

Good question- no you don't need to process in ProRes, we do it for the gain in color space but you might be doing the post house a favor by giving them something intraframe and not HDV. They will tell you if they can take an HDV file. Re. pulldown, sounds like you can leave it as-is for an HDCAM transfer but you may want to double-check on how the client wants it, for their purposes.