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June 03, 2008
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Final Cut Pro 6: 1080p24 workflow for Canon HV20 camcoder
Last Modified on: September 11, 2007
Article: 306389
This advanced article discusses workflow ideas for incorporating 1080p24 HDV material from a Canon HV20 camcorder into Final Cut Pro 6.
Final Cut Pro 6 and Canon HV20 camcorders are both capable of working with 1080p24 material, but due to differing characteristics in the ways that the media is handled, special care is required so that interlacing artifacts and pulldown cadence issues are not introduced in your work.
The steps below are meant to impart general workflow overviews. For details on performing any of the steps provided, refer to the User Manuals (available from the Help menu in each respective Final Cut Studio application).
HDV native capture, Compressor workflow
Note: ProRes is used as an example in this workflow; other codecs can also be used. An advantage to this workflow is that Compressor is able to perform Reverse Telecine on temporally-compressed media, while Cinema Tools cannot.
In Final Cut Pro, Log and Capture your clips shot as 1080p24 from the HV20 using the Easy Setup named "HDV, 29.97, HDV - 1080i60 FireWire Basic".
In Compressor, choose Add File and navigate to the capture scratch folder for the clips you captured and open them all.
Select the first clip in the batch.
Choose the setting named "Apple ProRes 422 for Progressive material" (found in Settings tab > Apple > Other Workflows > Advanced Format Conversions > Apple Codecs), and drag it onto the first clip.
Double-click the setting on the first clip to highlight the Inspector window.
In Inspector > Encoder Settings > Video Settings, change the framerate to Custom, and enter 23.976.
In Inspector > Frame Controls, enable Frame Controls and make the following settings:
Set Frame Controls to On
Set Deinterlace to Reverse Telecine
Click Save As to save this setting with a name such as "HV20 HDV 24p to ProRes 24p".
Add this new Custom setting to all your clips and submit the batch.
The resulting clips will be 24p and can be edited in a 24p sequence in Final Cut Pro with no interlacing or cadence issues.
HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec capture, Cinema Tools workflow
Note: This method requires that you determine the cadence pattern for each clip.
In Final Cut Pro, choose the Easy Setup named "Apple Intermediate Codec, 29.97, HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60".
Capture your clips.
Open each clip in Cinema Tools and manually reverse telecine each clip.
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