Does anyone know why DV PAL footage captured in Imovie is a different
format to that captured in final cut pro.
iMovie captures in native DVStream - multiplexed audio, video and
timecode as recorded on tape. This is a .dv file not .mov.
FCP/Express works with a QuickTime movie which has the same data
re-organized into audio track, video track and timecode track. No
loss to the data, just a restructuring into a format more suited for
editing.
The imovie clips are almost double the datarate then those captured in
Final Cut from the same source. (6.9 mb/s and 3.5mb/s respectively).
That shouldn't be the case, since DV is 3.6 MByte/sec (not mbit) and
that's both the native data rate and the rate in Final Cut Pro PAL.
This means that imovie clips imported into FCP have to be re-rendered
(which is always bad, right?)
Only audio should need rendering, at least that's the normal experience.
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