Working in FCPX with AVCHD ftg shot with a Canon XA10

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Working in FCPX with AVCHD ftg shot with a Canon XA10

Hi Mighty Mavens of Mac Magnificence! I'm editing on the latest version of FCPX on a maxed out Late 2012 Mini with the current Yosemite OS. I've been shooting SD mini-DV tapes with a Canon XL2 and importing through firewire. Now I've got a Canon XA 10 on the way, and I plan to shoot HD at 30p in MXP (24mbps) onto the camera's internal hard drive and/or SD cards -- and master at 720p (59.94) 1280x720 for CATV. My concerns are (other than the duhhh stuff like putting the camera in playback and choosing the right source for the footage) will I be able to import directly into FCPX for immediate editing? Or will I need to get an app like EditReady or ClipWrap to transcode the footage to ProRes or something? And if I need to transcode before editing, can the current version of Compressor do that for me just as well?

Should I start a second thread on shooting 30p vs. 60i?

Thanks so much!

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Posted on Mar 19, 2015 9:29 AM

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Tom Wolsky

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Mar 19, 2015 9:45 AM in response to flushme06

TThe XA10 is AVCHD and is on the supported camera list. It works directly with the application.

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flushme06 Author

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Mar 19, 2015 9:50 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thank you Tom. Any thoughts on shooting 60i vs. 30p? I'm not shooting sports or fast moving action.

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Tom Wolsky

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Mar 19, 2015 10:19 AM in response to flushme06

WWhat exactly does your camera shoot? I'd avoid interlaced formats.

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flushme06 Author

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Mar 19, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

The XA 10 shoots in 60i, 30p & 24p. Why would you avoid interlaced?

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Russ H

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Mar 19, 2015 2:43 PM in response to flushme06

A lot (most?) of delivery these day is intended for computer viewing. And interlaced on computers really doesn't look very good – especially with motion. Much of that output is compressed to some form of H.264, and Apple doesn't even provide a setting in FCP that will output an interlaced variant of that codec…nor does it in Compressor. So if you shoot interlaced, and deliver in H264, your material will be automatically de-interlaced. If your projects are for broadcast, that's a different story.

Russ

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