Native GH4 files or ProRes into FCP7?
When I import .MOV files from a Panasonic GH4 (HD shot at 24p 100mb) into Final Cut 7 they seem to be fine. If I convert these files to ProRes I can notice no difference in how they play. The only difference is the blue-grey bar that appears over the .MOV files in the Timeline. A FC manual I have says: “a blue green bar indicates material that has already been rendered.”
I'm wondering exactly what that means. I know the footage from the camera, the .MOV files, are IPB and that converted to ProRes they are All-I. Yet as far as I know Final Cut works with IPB footage, that it doesn't have to be rendered to ProRes first. (HDV seems an example of this.) So, in what way have my .MOV files been rendered? Or am I missing something?
Can anyone tell me exactly what's going on here.
Thanks.
John