User Guide

28 Chapter 1 Working With HDV
6 Click OK.
If any segments of your sequence require rendering or conforming, Final Cut Pro
renders and conforms them now. A progress dialog appears indicating the amount of
time that remains until rendering and conforming are complete. Any segments of your
sequence where GOP boundaries were broken (such as the frames around edit points
or any frames with added filters, motion parameters, and so on) are conformed.
A second progress dialog briefly appears indicating the time it takes to process Leader,
Trailer, and gap elements in your sequence.
A dialog appears when your sequence is ready for output.
7 If you did not select the Automatically Start Recording checkbox in the Print to Video
dialog, press the record button on your camcorder or deck, then click OK.
If your tape is write-protected or if frames are dropped during the Print to Video
operation, a dialog appears allowing you to try the operation again.
Note: When using the Print to Video command with a JVC ProHD device, you can
output sequence timecode to tape. For more information about proper deck settings,
see the documentation included with your JVC device.
HDV Apple Intermediate Codec Editing Workflow
When you edit using footage encoded with the Apple Intermediate Codec, you don’t need
to worry about making cuts on GOP patterns or re-encoding. You can edit just as you
would with any other I-frame–only encoded footage, such as DV or uncompressed video.
The main drawbacks to using the Apple Intermediate Codec for editing HDV footage
are that the required disk space is significantly larger and conforming your media for
output back to tape can be very time-consuming.
Step 1: Connect your HDV camcorder to your computer via FireWire
Step 2: Choose the appropriate Apple Intermediate Codec HDV Easy Setup
Step 3: Capture your footage to disk
Step 4: Edit your HDV clips into a sequence
Step 5: Re-encode and output back to tape, or export to a QuickTime movie
Connecting an HDV Device to Your Computer
This step is identical to connecting your HDV camcorder for MPEG-2 HDV capture. For
details, see “Connecting an HDV Device to Your Computer” on page 16.