Apple Final Cut Pro HD (4.5): New Features User Manual

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Chapter 1

Using DVCPRO HD

To capture, edit, and output a project using native resolution DVCPRO HD video:

Choose an Easy Setup or capture preset that matches your DVCPRO HD source footage.

Log footage before capture, deciding which clips to capture.

Capture selected DVCPRO HD footage via FireWire.

Create a sequence using an Easy Setup or sequence preset that matches your source
footage.

Edit as necessary.

Output back to DVCPRO HD tape using Edit to Tape or Print to Video.

Rough Editing With Low-Resolution, Offline-Quality DVCPRO HD

This workflow uses the Media Manager to create low-resolution, offline-quality versions
of your media files. Ultimately, this process requires less disk space than editing at full
resolution, but each tape captured will initially require enough disk capacity for both
full-resolution and low-resolution versions of your media.

This process makes two projects, two sets of clips, and two sets of media files. One
project contains all of the full-resolution DVCPRO HD clips that reference the full-
resolution DVCPRO HD media files on your scratch disk. The second project, which you
will create using the Media Manager, will look identical to the first except that the clips
will reference offline-quality clips on your scratch disk. This second project, along with
its associated media files, will require significantly less disk space and processing power.
You can copy these files to an external FireWire drive or an internal PowerBook drive
and edit the project remotely. If disk space is a concern on the original scratch disk, you
can throw away the full-resolution DVCPRO HD media files, keeping only the offline-
quality media files.

If any new DVCPRO HD footage is shot and captured, it must go through the same
Media Manager process and then be added to the offline-quality project.

Recompress

Tape

(capture full resolution)

Scratch disk

(enough disk space for both

full and low resolution files)

Duplicate items

Project

(full resolution)

Project

(low resolution)

Clip

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