Shooting for the Web with DVX....

[Alex H.]

I see your point C2V, but basically i got 1 sequence about 5 min long out of 1 hour of good takes and the stuff i took were little bits around 30 sec long so for me it would have been a pain to watch and log little tiny clips, although i should probably just do that and give them the capture scratch files, i could just do batch capture which still would have cost me less time then i spent cutting it up and logging the whole garbage footage, about how i exported i just clicked export, quicktime movie (not quicktime conversion or compressor) and used current settings, include a/v, make self contained.

I will be talking to the editor guy today ill probably just re-capture the stuff i only want to send to him, will 2 sec handles and send him those couple little takes.

So, you've basically made some pretty permanent editorial decisions for the editor? To (sort of) echo David, the editor needs to work from the source footage. Yes, a producer will normally make a paper cut, and only the takes considered "good" will be digitized. Not all of the digitized footage will be used, relatively little of it in fact, but you're talking about having an hour of good takes and whittling that down to barely anything before the editor gets to it.

To be honest, things may change. The paper cut, in fact, may not look exactly (or even much) like the finished edit when all is said and done.

1 thing though i know when you log FC makes quicktime movie clips for each clip you log, but when you export a quicktime movie without using quicktime conversion it makes a .mov but if you get info its FCP movie, still plays in quicktime, whats the difference???

FCP is QuickTime-based. No difference, except the container. Any clip that FCP captures is a QuickTime movie and will play in any QuickTime-capable application.