Thanks for the quick response
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.
makes sense
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.
That's what I thought (i knew i'd get the mbit/mbyte wrong sorry). So
what is going on here:
http://www.shf.com.au/imovie_dv.jpg
Screenshot taken from FCP HD after importing a clip previosly captured
in Imovie?
Wierd eh? Or I'm i missing something straight forward. Is it to do with
the field dominance, ie fcp thinks the footsge is progressive or
something and doubling the frames?
That clip by the way is 2 minutes long, which means the filesize would
suggest the datarate is actually 3.5.
Had this happen with clips from 3 different sources.
Thanks
Joe
ps sorry if this is offtopic, might be one for fcp list or something.
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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