The project type and raster can be changed at any time, so its just a matter of switching between them depending on what you're doing.

Of course 1080p/23.976 is supported for a digital cut to a HDCAM deck. What's not supported is performing a digital cut back to the camera, I believe this is a limitation of the camera. Its a camera after all, not a deck.

Sounds good! I hope all this works, as I will be spending about $7000 for camera & S/W. I'll report back in a week or so.

on moving between formats, you can always turn to AE. which will take about anything and convert it to anything. not fast but does a good job. PP CS4 is also useful. for example, it can edit AVCHD natively. I use a Z7 but want to be able to cut in stuff from my point 'n shoot which makes 720p mts files.  I import them into a premiere HDV project (1080i 1440x1080) and then just scale up the video and print to HDV tape,  which then can be captured - and batch captured - into avid. BTW I don.t work for adobe...                      sasha

filmcan:

Sounds good! I hope all this works, as I will be spending about $7000 for camera & S/W. I'll report back in a week or so.

There's a free fully functional 14 day trial of Media Composer 3.5 that you can test to make sure it works for you before you purchase it.

sasha1:

on moving between formats, you can always turn to AE. which will take about anything and convert it to anything. not fast but does a good job. PP CS4 is also useful. for example, it can edit AVCHD natively. I use a Z7 but want to be able to cut in stuff from my point 'n shoot which makes 720p mts files.  I import them into a premiere HDV project (1080i 1440x1080) and then just scale up the video and print to HDV tape,  which then can be captured - and batch captured - into avid. BTW I don.t work for adobe...                      sasha

As long as the the frame rate matches any supported codec with any raster and frame size can be combined into a project and sequence with no requirement for rendering or transcoding for a digital cut.

Prior to MC 3.0 the 720p projects were separate from the 1080/SD projects and the software only worked in full raster (any thin raster video was scaled in software to full raster) which was devastating on performance.

Starting in MC 3.0 all the like frame rate projects were combined into a single format tab and the software can work natively in a thin raster. Instead of the scaling happening in software, its happening in the DX hardware.

Hi Bob,

I'm using Avid mc 3.5.4 software only trial version, and I only see standard HD raster sizes in project settings, but no HDV thin raster settings.Could you tell me what is the finest way to edit HDV 25p footage on Avid MC?How can I convert .m2t files to 10bit DNxHD files and import in Avid MC for the edit? Or is native HDV editing good for the quality? Please do help me.

nimes:

Hi Bob,

I'm using Avid mc 3.5.4 software only trial version, and I only see standard HD raster sizes in project settings, but no HDV thin raster settings.Could you tell me what is the finest way to edit HDV 25p footage on Avid MC?How can I convert .m2t files to 10bit DNxHD files and import in Avid MC for the edit? Or is native HDV editing good for the quality? Please do help me.

I don't see project settings for either 30P or 25P.  You may have to open a new project set at 1080i/50 with 1440x1080 raster settings.  Then try to drag and drop the M2T files into the bin and start editing.  You shouldn't need to transcode, but if you do it will speed up playback response and all that.  I am just speaking from 59.94 experience.  I don't know for sure how things work in the PAL world.  Good Luck.

he can transcode to dnxhd after importing