Downconverting in Final Cut?

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DM_rider

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I'm going to be shooting an event tomorrow and the client would like to have SD footage for their own piece on the event, but I would like to have the HD footage for my own keeping. I shoot with an Fx1. What would be the best way of down converting the HDV footage to SD? Can it be down when I capture the footage in final cut?
 
Depends how they want it and what version of FCP you have. In FCP 6 you could always play out to DV tape.

Noah
 
ah ok in that case you can do it via an export to Compressor and set to DV-NTSC or 8-bit uncompressed whichever they prefer. Then burn to data DVD. Though I'd suggest an external hard drive would be a lot simpler.

Noah
 
NoahK said:
ah ok in that case you can do it via an export to Compressor and set to DV-NTSC or 8-bit uncompressed whichever they prefer. Then burn to data DVD. Though I'd suggest an external hard drive would be a lot simpler.

Noah
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thanks for the help, I think that's what I'll do.
 
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I you have a MiniDV camera handy you could always let the FX1 downconvert via FW and record it directly to MiniDV (assuming the client can take MiniDV).

-A
 
I'm just going to capture everything HDV, and then pull the clips into compressor and down convert that way. Seems to be the easiest way to do it.
 
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