Capturing 30f with FCP 5

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Adam Tomlinson

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Hello all,

I'm new to this site. It has been tremendously helpful to me over the last couple weeks. I recently bought an XH-A1 and am a mac user with FCP 5. I've shot HDV footage in 30f and need dire confirmation to make sure I'm capturing properly in native HDV. The canon manual says 30f records in 30fps progressive and outputs to 60fps interlaced. This suggests to me that the following settings are correct:

Capture: HDV 1080i 60, 29.97 (NTSC)
Sequence: 1440 * 1080 (both aspect and pixels)
Compressor: HDV 1080i 60

Much has been written about FCP 6 and 24p (f) capture settings, as well as ProRes. But I've failed to find out whether there is a 1080 30p (or f) capture setting. Does anyone know? Should I be upgrading before capturing? I do plan to upgrade to vs 6, but at the moment it's out of my budget.

One concern is that if I capture progressive material 'interlaced', will it no longer be progressive upon DVD export?

Thanks again for everything, now and before.

Adam
 
Thanks Patrick. Can I get further clarification though. If I capture 30f at 1080i 60, am I retaining true progressive, or is the timeline interlacing what I've shot? I've tried changing the field dominance to none. In capture, this makes no difference and I'm still getting 'Upper'. The sequence seems to retain a 'none' for field dominance though.

I've discovered that FCP 6 likewise does not have a HDV 1080 30p for capture, but they do in Compressor (Sequence settings).

My plan has been to capture to the settings listed in previous post (HDV 1080i60), edit, then nest the edited sequence into ProRes or 8bit with the upgrade months from now. Just want to make sure I'm not going to screw things up in the capture.

Thanks!

Adam
 
Adam what version of FCP are you using specifically?? In 5.1.4 there was an easy preset added called HDV1080p30, this is what you need.
 
you're doing the right thing. capture hdv1080i 60. make sure the field dominance is set to "none" in the your sequence.
 
Noel,

I'm using FCP 5.0.4. Are you sure 5.1.4 has that preset? I just read Apple's manual for the update, and have looked at FCP 6 in an Apple store. Couldn't find that preset anywhere -- except in compressor for sequence settings.

Bewillia,

Unless I hear otherwise from you or Noel, I'll assume I'm doing the right thing with HDV 1080i 60. Thanks to you both for replying.

Adam
 
OK heres how it looks in FCP6, this preset was available from FCP 5.1.2 actually. But I cant remember if this window looked the same but the preset did have the same name.

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Great... Wish I had spent the $50 to upgrade to 5.1 when I had the chance. It doesn't seem to be available anymore. Thanks for the pic.

Adam
 
Adam, call apple store and I am pretty sure you still could do it. And if you can it is worth it.
 
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