Simon Wood
October 11th, 2011, 02:34 PM
I have moved over to FCP X and so far so good; it seems pretty stable with my nanoflash footage (in MOV format).
One problem I am encountering is trying to get some old HDV footage that had been previously saved to PC computers in a variety of codecs (matrox AVI and M2T formats) - FCPX is not playing nicely with them at all. Luckily I still have all of my old tapes and I have decided to recapture some key footage.
I was messing around with the nano today while it was connected to the camera, and rewinding a tape - and when I pressed play on the camera the nano started rolling and saved the HDV footage in the settings I usually use (.MOV @ 50mbs). It worked well on FCP X, and obviously it is the exact same codec I now use for everything else.
Using the nano as a capture device for old footage had not occurred to me until now, and while I understand that the footage is already compressed to the HDV format, it is nice to have the option of having a standard codec for new edits of old footage.
Is there anything to be lost by capturing old HDV footage on the nanoflash; is having it compressed twice going to cause problems with the footage that I have not thought of? Obviously the file sizes are a lot bigger than standard HDV, is there any benefit from having the extra 'space' in the files?
One problem I am encountering is trying to get some old HDV footage that had been previously saved to PC computers in a variety of codecs (matrox AVI and M2T formats) - FCPX is not playing nicely with them at all. Luckily I still have all of my old tapes and I have decided to recapture some key footage.
I was messing around with the nano today while it was connected to the camera, and rewinding a tape - and when I pressed play on the camera the nano started rolling and saved the HDV footage in the settings I usually use (.MOV @ 50mbs). It worked well on FCP X, and obviously it is the exact same codec I now use for everything else.
Using the nano as a capture device for old footage had not occurred to me until now, and while I understand that the footage is already compressed to the HDV format, it is nice to have the option of having a standard codec for new edits of old footage.
Is there anything to be lost by capturing old HDV footage on the nanoflash; is having it compressed twice going to cause problems with the footage that I have not thought of? Obviously the file sizes are a lot bigger than standard HDV, is there any benefit from having the extra 'space' in the files?