[Frameworks] FInal Cut Pro X

[D Dawson]

HDV is not intended to be "reconnected" after a lost drive.  DV and HDV are
far too fragile to ever expect to be able to recapture and be frame
accurate.

The best bet would be to capture now the entire tape.  Convert that tape to
PRORES (or capture now into PRORES) make a duplicate of that file onto
another drive, and store it away... Just like DSLR footage, or P2 footage,
or RED footage or XDCAM footage.   IF you ever loose your working file, you
simply copy over the back up and "reconnect" (or whatever process the new
FCPX does to reconnect files).

The output to tape feature shouldn't worry too many professionals.  I master
a Qtime file and take it to my local post-production house where they put it
onto HDCAM tapes.   They will buy the AJA cards and the Blackmagic cards to
output... They do anyway.







On 6/28/11 9:47 AM, "David Tetzlaff" <djtet53 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roger wrote about no-output-to-tape. Not having actually uaed FCPX, I assume
> you can still output a file of a finished project in ProRes. It would seem
> easy enough to import that file into an older version of FCP or some other
> common already-there software to export it to tape.
> 
> Tapehead Luddite that i am, the loss of batch capture is more worrisome.
> Again, I think of it from a small college production program POV. What if
> you're using Canon HDV camcorders you just bought, that are working fine, and
> have to last you the next five years at least. If students just do 'capture
> now' they're up the creek if their hard drive crashes. If they log and
> capture, save their source tapes, and save back-ups of the fcp program file,
> they can just more-or-less automatically recapture everything after a crash,
> and they don't have to start their projects over. Which is good because
> starting-over inevitably means incompletes and a variety of hassles for the
> faculty.
> 
>> I worry too that until Blu-Ray burning becomes standard (if ever?) this will
>> mean that many more artists will rely on DVDs as exhibition copies, a
>> practice that I find totally unacceptable (and often disheartening).
> 
> I said it before. I'll say it again. The festivals and exhibitors are the
> problem. They need to accept and show work in a variety of affordable high
> quality formats, AND show artists the path to getting their work into those
> formats.
> 
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