Posted by Pat Horridge on 06/14/07 11:07

"Martin Heffels" <goofie@flikken.net> wrote in message
news:n96073d5uhl1uog5fqen6d5pe5m1jqihj5@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:21:38 -0700, "mmaker@my-deja.com"
> <mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>>On Jun 13, 11:22 am, Martin Heffels <goo...@flikken.net> wrote:
>>> Agreed. But editing HDV in Avid is a PITA :-(
>>
>>Why? I thought it was pretty good myself, other than the 'full screen
>>playback' randomly not working.
>
> Oh, I had a job the other day which we tired to capture and edit in Xpress
> Pro or Media Composer (both software only versions). The capturing off a
> Sony Z1 did not go very well. Actually, not at all ;-) Now from what I
> read
> this seems to be a problem occuring in FCP as well, where the system
> chokes
> on the cutting-points/GOP and the intermediate codec's they use.
> We ended up capturing with Sony Vegas, then had to split the material in
> scenes (with HDV-split), because Avid does not allow import of HDV/MPEG2
> files larger than 1.6GB :-(
> The editing in itself went quite good, no hassles there.
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
> --
> Official website "Jonah's Quid" http://www.jonahsquids.co.uk

Wen have a Miranda box and where ever possible capture HDV through that to
make frame based HD media.
Much less pain in post that way.
I agree working HDV in your timeline is currently less than ideal.

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