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Robert Bec
January 13th, 2009, 04:31 PM
Hi Guys

I have a question about capturing HDV do I use the pro res or pro res HQ codec to capture or just the standard HDV codec

I did a couple of test firstly using the HDV codec i noticed my data rate was around 3MB/sec and then i did a test with the pro res HQ and my data rate was around the 18MB/sec

Is there a difference which one should i use? I also noticed you don't get a log & Capture window with the Prores HQ setting as soon as you press log & Capture it starts capturing. One thing i loved was the scene detection awesome

regards

Robert

Mike Barber
January 13th, 2009, 04:55 PM
HDV/ProRes workflow options for FCP have come up several times in this forum. You will likely find you answer by following the link in http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/non-linear-editing-mac/141268-general-question-editing-hdv-fcp-6-0-5-a.html

William Hohauser
January 14th, 2009, 01:41 PM
Hi Guys

I have a question about capturing HDV do I use the pro res or pro res HQ codec to capture or just the standard HDV codec

I did a couple of test firstly using the HDV codec i noticed my data rate was around 3MB/sec and then i did a test with the pro res HQ and my data rate was around the 18MB/sec

Is there a difference which one should i use? I also noticed you don't get a log & Capture window with the Prores HQ setting as soon as you press log & Capture it starts capturing. One thing i loved was the scene detection awesome

regards

Robert

ProRes should be more than enough for editing HDV. ProResHQ would be good if you were recording in a higher quality tape format.