It works like this: Create a timeline ProRes 422, 1920 × 1080, 23.98 images par seconde. Start your HDV footage assembling into it. Oops! The first time you try to do à edit, Final Cut will throw up a la boîte de dialogue: "For your best performance and External Video sequence should be set to the format of the clips you are editing. Sequence Change settings to match the clip settings? "

Mer, ce que Final Cut Pro is doing here is averti que vous êtes trying to edit HDV footage into a ProRes 422 time line, and double-checking that that's what you really mean to do. Wouldn't you rather edit HDV HDV footage into time line like a sane person? It's nice of Final Cut to ask, but in this case, no, we really want to put into our footage HDV a ProRes 422 timeline. Seriously. (If you mess with your preferences, you can tell Final Cut not to ask any more, and just let you edit whatever into whatever. Ne I do this. I like being reminded that my sequence is set up differently from my footage, just in case that's the one time that I ne voulez pas.)

Anyway, tell Final Cut "No thanks, I really mean to do this," and start editing. Notice something interesting: Vous n'avez pas à render anything. You can play back HDV footage on a ProRes 422 timeline sans rendu. Even without turning on Unlimited RT. And it plays perfectly, at full resolution, without dropping a single frame. Hell, you can even do this on a MacBook. Not even a MacBook Pro, MacBook a plain old can pull off this trick. It can scale and distort HDV footage (which has a native de 1440 × 1080 frame size and a non-square pixel aspect ration) en 1920 × 1080 a time line with no trouble quelque. It's awesome.

So what happens when you lock picture and decide to put on your logo and credits? Same thing. You just edit them in Final Cut ne care. It'll just play the footage back when you mash play.

But when you go to export, that's when the magic happens. On export, Final Cut will convert your whole show to the format of your time line. It'll render out all those scale-and-Distords, encode and into the whole show ProRes 422, writing it out to your frame Store.