FCP 5.1.2 and Lumiere HD in the same project?
So I'm about half way done with the rough cut of my current documentary and I have been using Lumiere HD successfully, albeit with many rough patches along the way. Now that I have FCP 5.1.2 installed I would love to abandon using Lumiere to capture becasue of the added time and additional drive space necessary for all those additional files. Has anyone tried switching to FCP 5.1.2 for logging and capturing in the middle of an edit started with LHD? If so, is this even possible, and if it is, how will the workflow change. I attempted to bring in some new footage into the existing (LHD) project using FCP 5.1.2 and encountered the following issues:
1. It appears that when capturing HDV 720/24p footage with FCP 5.1.2 there is no longer the familiar log and capture window. Instead, just a small window where you can give your clip a title, and then click on capture.
2. It appears there's no way to capture the HDV footage at half resolution (720x480) for offline quality and drive space considerations. The HDV 720/24p to Apple Intermediate Codec is locked and it appears there is no way to duplicate it and then customize the resolution size like I was able to do when using LHD. What ends up happening then is that I will have clips with two different resolutions in the same sequence, the Lumiere AIC clips are 720x480 and the clips captured directly through FCP will be 1280x720. I realize that once I'm ready to online and I reconnect the Lumiere AIC clips to their original 1280x720 "master" sources, that everything will be full 1280x720, but having two resolutions in the same rough cut sequence is a little weird. Because the sequence setting is 720x480, the new FCP captured clips are being reduced to about 56% automatically when I bring them into the sequence timeline which means they need to be rendered every time I move them around.
3. For some reason the footage coming in via FCP 5.1.2 HDV 720/24p to AIC has a frame rate of 59.94 fps instead of 23.98 fps, so when I drop them into the AIC sequence (23.98) they are playing at about 2x speed.
1. It appears that when capturing HDV 720/24p footage with FCP 5.1.2 there is no longer the familiar log and capture window. Instead, just a small window where you can give your clip a title, and then click on capture.
2. It appears there's no way to capture the HDV footage at half resolution (720x480) for offline quality and drive space considerations. The HDV 720/24p to Apple Intermediate Codec is locked and it appears there is no way to duplicate it and then customize the resolution size like I was able to do when using LHD. What ends up happening then is that I will have clips with two different resolutions in the same sequence, the Lumiere AIC clips are 720x480 and the clips captured directly through FCP will be 1280x720. I realize that once I'm ready to online and I reconnect the Lumiere AIC clips to their original 1280x720 "master" sources, that everything will be full 1280x720, but having two resolutions in the same rough cut sequence is a little weird. Because the sequence setting is 720x480, the new FCP captured clips are being reduced to about 56% automatically when I bring them into the sequence timeline which means they need to be rendered every time I move them around.
3. For some reason the footage coming in via FCP 5.1.2 HDV 720/24p to AIC has a frame rate of 59.94 fps instead of 23.98 fps, so when I drop them into the AIC sequence (23.98) they are playing at about 2x speed.
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