I know that with the Canon XH-A1, 24f HDV is not currently supported with the media composer. Problem is, I have already shot my 5 interviews to tape that way. What would you expert avid guys recommend me doing? I still want to online on the media composer and not deal with an offline workflow. Should I convert to widescreen DV and take the big resolution hit? or should I transcode to DVC Pro codec or some other codec that Avid can use. The file sizes of Avid DNxHD codecs are way too big for me to use... I have already tried :-(

I am on the Mac side of things, so I have Final Cut pro and compressor as well if that helps. :-)

Thanks in advance.

Taj

Yes, definitely convert those files to another codec. What is your final delivery format?

BLKDOG:

Yes, definitely convert those files to another codec. What is your final delivery format?

Thanks BLKDOG for responding. I am just shooting a regular documentary for hopefully network broadcast in the UK. I don't have or know the end or final delivery format and was hoping to get some opinions on what some of you guys have gotten away with. I am totally self financing this myself and a little over my head. I do have an great hunch this will be sold to the UK because of the subject matter. One thing I also know, I will not be converting it to film, just keeping it SD.

Thanks again

Taj

I just moved again to Avid from Final cut pro.

;-)