Hi all, I’ve searched around on this issue and have got some insight but still need some help if anyone has any suggestions.

 

I just shot footage for a doc on P2 cards at 720/29.97PN to edit on Xpress Pro 5.7 and then later upgrade to MC. However when I go to start a new project the closest settings it gives me are 720p/29.97 HDV. It’s the HDV part I don’t really get because when I bring the clips into that project I can see in my headings under Video that the format is DVCPro HD 720p/60.  FCP doesn’t interpret that format as HDV but I don’t want to edit in FCP.

 

I then tried a test with a new project at 720p/59.97 but it tells me to transcode the clips first as they won’t read. I went back to my original 720p/29.97 HDV project and tried to transcode a clip to the selected format of DVCPro HD but nothing seemed to happen. There was no new transcoded clip to bring into the other 720p/59.97 project. Is this because the clip is already a DVCPro HD clip?

 

Thirdly I opened another test project under the 1080i/59.97 settings and the clips play but I read on a thread that because DVCPro HD including P2 uses a Thin Raster I will have to transcode to DNxHD to avoid dropped frames. I haven’t worked in the DNxHD format. How will this affect my footage and online? 

 

The main thing I don’t get is the HDV part of it. Will Xpress Pro change the DVCPro HD format of the footage to HDV if I edit in the 720p/29.97 HDV project? Or is it just that it won’t be able to spit out a DVCPro format at the end? What gives with the HDV label??

 

Any help or suggestions would hugely be appreciated.

If you are working in MC, you should be able to set up a project at 720P/29.97, which is what you want if you shot at 720/29.97PN. Is that not an option in your version of MC? "I went back to my original 720p/29.97 HDV project and tried to transcode a clip to the selected format of DVCPro HD but nothing seemed to happen." -you should not have to transcode as you are already in DVCPro HD. Heres a link to a chart of P2 format/framerate/project type options. Dont edit in HDV if you can help it, its a pain in the butt. Goodluck. Tom http://www.avid.com/P2/#p2-resources-avid Go to avid resources, then supported P2 formats