Final Cut Pro Workflows

7  Ingest

A crucial step in any workflow is ingesting footage into the nonlinear editing system. Traditionally, this process has referred to solely tape-based sources. In this regard, the process was known simply as “digitizing,” and, in Final Cut Pro, as “Log and Capture.” As technology changes, these terms themselves can sometimes be misnomers.

Traditionally, the Log and Capture process has been referred to as “digitizing” because shooting formats were analog. The process of getting your footage into a nonlinear editing system was literally “digitizing” because you were making an analog, linear format into a digital, nonlinear one. Today—with digital formats such as DV, DVCPRO50, Digital Beta-cam, HDV, and HDCAM—we are only “capturing” digital ...