thank you for your answer, I'll try importing it the way you say.
what do you say about my doubts of using mv2 as a raw file, I'm I loosing quality?
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Browse All TopicsI hired a studio to import some hd mini dv footage into a hard drive and they gave me the audio and the video files split up and in the following extension formats:
.m2v.index2
.scn
.wav
.m2v
is it possible to put them back together inside final cut pro?
also I've read that mv2 is a compression format that should not be used for the raw footage, is this true? can you give me some insights into this?
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by: avgavgPosted on 2009-05-28 at 10:35:38ID: 24495749
- The footage from your dv tape has been split into separate video and audio streams using Pinnacle Studio.
- The files with index2 and scn extensions have been created by Pinnalce Studio so you can ignore them.
- Simply import the file with m2v extension into Final Cut Pro and drag it on to a video track on the timeline (m2v is the video stream from your dv tape compressed in mpeg2 format so you just by changing the extension from m2v to mpg you will be able to play it back using any media player that can play mpeg2 files)
- Import the audio track (.wav extension) into FCP and drag it onto an audio track on the timeline
- Export the timeline as a movie.
- That's it.
Good Luck!