I've about halfway through editting a demo video and an editor friend wants to come help do the rest. He only knows Final Cut and he's hoping he can plug my harddrive into his Mac and somehow continue editting with my captured video. I'm guessing this is not possible ... is it not? The video file format Avid used is MXF. And if it can be

I'm running into a problem with some tapes while now Batch Capturing in HDV. (I originally captured and editted in 30i NTSC) Now, after 'Decomposing' my final sequence as offline, the clips on some tapes show they are Drop Frame and when I insert those tapes for 'batch capturing,' I get an error message saying 'Drop frame tape

Any idea why the timecode reset itself on this tape? I wonder if I will have the same issues with many of my other 60 tapes because of something I did while filming.

While filming with my Sony HVR-A1u camera, I must have either taken this particular tape out or rewound it to view it, (and then continued recording,) but at that point, the timecode got reset on it. The beginning of this particular tape starts at 00:00:00:00 but runs until 00:20:04:00 and at that point resets at 00:00:00:00 (which is where I either

My goal is to create a pilot episode to pitch to broadcasters of outdoor networks. I have 70 hours of video shot in HDV 1080i and from the forums I've read, I'm thinking it's true that I should first capture downconverted DV25 into an NTSC 30i project for editting. (Please correct any of this that you think I should do differently....),

So it appears the way most people are recommending if one needs to edit over 40 hours of video shot at HDV 1080i is to first capture downconverted to a resolution like DV25 in a 30i NTSC is that correct? (I'm a rookie trying to get a correct workflow so I won't muck things up after weeks of editing!! I've searched through the forums but

Oops, I meant to also reply to you other fellas about the tips you gave me! Sasha1, you said you like to capture in SD 30i, downconverted HDV-DV. In my sony camera then, should I have it set to 'DOWNCONVERTED SQUEEZE or LETTERBOX'? One post said to set it to Squeeze since but isn't Letterbox proper 16:9? And then when you finish your edit

Hey you guys thanks so much for your input!! Laptopeditor, you were saying it's best to capture and edit in HDV 1080i/59.94, which is what I'd LOVE to do for simplicity, but it's been true what some people are saying about it being very chunky and not fluid as I sift through the video in my clips since it has large GOP (groups of pictures

Okay I'm getting so close to understanding which workflow I should use for my project but have still a couple questions before diving in head first. Your help will be huuuugely appreciated!! I shot 70 hours in HDV 1080i with a Sony HVR-A1u and want to create a pilot episode to pitch to an outdoor life network. From reading many posts, here's

I've read so many posts and am still having a hard time with what workflow I should set up for my project. I have about 60 hours of HDV 1080i video that I need to chop up to form a 1 hour pilot that I will pitch to broadcasters. Some Avid members have said they'd: "Capture in HDV, then transcode to DNxHD and work with that" (but that