Best workflow for mixing HMC150 and HPX170 footage?

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Hey guys,

Just about to edit my short film (in FCP 6) from this past weekend. We shot multi-cam with the HMC150 and the HPX170. We did camera tests before in terms of looking at the footage and you can hardly tell between the compression schemes and the frames. However, now that I am to sit down and edit it, I am wondering what the best workflow would be. Do I create a DVCProHD sequence or a ProRes422 sequence? I have far more DVCProHD footage than ProRes AVC footage but I still wonder about final master quality and what is easier to cut with. Does anybody have any suggestions? Should I just recompress the DVCProHD footage to ProRes422 and edit in a ProRes timeline?

DVCProHD footage is 1280x1080 framesize, ingested in at 23.98fps, and compressed at DVCPro HD 1080/30p.

AVC/ProRes422 footage is 1920x1080 framesize, ingested in at 23.98fps, and compressed with ProRes422.

Looking forward to what you guys think. Thanks!
 
Use the DVCProHD preset.

Convert you HMC150 footage to DVCProHD using the converter in bootcamp/windows.

Ingest the same way.

Or use Toast 9/10 to convert the mts files to DVCProHD.
 
Thanks for your quick reply, David.

So DVCProHD is a better codec then ProRes? I've read that ProRes is almost non-destructible in terms of re-rendering. I will need to color and send the show to After Effects for some compositing.
 
Well, my solution only requires that you convert the AVCHD to DVCProHD.

Otherwise, you are converting both the AVCHD footage and the DVCProHD footage to pro res.
 
For me, when I Logged and Transferred the AVC into Final Cut, it converted the AVC into ProRes right from the start.

This is what I'm still wondering... Which is the better codec to use? I can convert ProRes to DVCPro or vice versa, using Toast or even Compressor for that matter, can't I?

I would just like to know why you recommend cutting with DVCPro HD rather than ProRes....for my own wisdom's sake.

Thanks.
 
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