New workaround for 720/25p & 720/50p in FCP

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Barry_Green

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Looks like there's a way now to use HVX 720/25P, 720/25pN, and 720/50P footage in FCP. The guys at Imagine Products have incorporated a file conversion tool into HD Log that imbeds a 50p stream within a 60p stream that makes it FCP-compatible. Not sure exactly how it works, but it sounds promising.

There's a downloadable demo version posted on their website at http://www.imagineproducts.com/dl_form_hdlg.htm
 
They describe this as an "unofficial option" for those that want it.

Some people are understandably concerned with the price of this app.

But the company has already revised it twice, and I understand that another revision is due as well.
 
I just downloaded the v3.6 demo and tried a 720p25 file - the file imports and plays inside HD Log. When I exported it, Quicktime Player reports it as 'DVCPRO HD 720p50' at 50fps - so that seems to work and I was not given any extra options inside HD Log so it must be automatic.

What's strange is that there is no such 720p50 Apple DVCPRO HD codec! Yet this is exactly how Quicktime Player reports it - codec names usually come straight from the codec bundle but for 720p the Apple DVCPRO HD codec has only ever shown as 24, 30 and 60. It seems to me that this DVCPRO HD codec could easily be enabled/extended for 25 and 50?

Inside FCP however, it is reported as DVCPRO HD 720p60 at 50fps. I could not set up a custom sequence template to work with the clip as FCP has no 50 option for FPS.
 
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