When you’re finished with your edit, you almost always will want a very high quality standalone movie exported.
This way, now or anytime in the future, you can:
- encode this movie to x264, H264, FLV or WMV (or any other format) with DV Kitchen
- drag it into DVD Studio Pro or iDVD to author an SD DVD
- import it into Encore or Toast to author a Blu-Ray DVD
- take it on a Firewire drive to a dub house to transfer to a broadcast format for cable/satellite, or for a film festival
- or any other conceivable use.
You can copy the exported movie to a cheap terabyte …
Final Cut (and other editing apps) will accept many kinds and formats of audio for import into the Browser or Timeline.
However, just because they will, doesn’t mean you should! 
If you import compressed audio, for example, in MP3 or AAC codecs, or audio in a different bit or sample rate than your Timeline (such as 44.1 KHz, 32 KHz or 12-bit), you will often hear clicks, pops, and audio dropouts while editing, which is distracting for your creative process, and in many cases your audio will require rendering before you can even hear it, which sounds like “beep-beep-beep-beep” and wastes …
If your projects are going to be delivered on DVD or broadcast, it’s important to have an accurate studio monitor on your desk so you can see your project as your viewers will see it while you’re editing.
Why?
First, many editing programs show you a low quality “proxy” of your timeline, so you can’t judge color correction, brightness, saturation, contrast, how titles or graphics will look, or any other aspect of the picture accurately.
Can I just enable a second computer monitor to show video and that will work?
With some editing programs, you can enable a second monitor to show a …
It seems more and more common that editors are being asked to use content from a DVD- perhaps the client has provided you with last years annual report DVD… and wants you to redit it. (Remember, ripping off copyrighted content is a Federal offense with imprisonment and large fines possible!)
You can use MacTheRipper or OSEx to get the content from a DVD on your hard drive (OS X only)
MPEG Streamclip is an application that converts MPEG files (including transport streams) into muxed, demuxed, QuickTime, AVI and DV files. http://www.squared5.com/
For editing from a regular …
One good option is dubbing your analog footage to a DV or HDV tape with the analog inputs of your camcorder. That way, your footage has been digitized and timecoded, and is ready to capture via FireWire into your system as if it had been shot on digital.
If you have Hi-8 footage, there are Sony “digital 8″ camcorders with Firewire that will transfer Hi-8 footage (no timecode, though) directly into your computer.
This method has a lot of advantages- your footage is more convenient if you wish to use it in other projects or re-edit your project, it will last longer …
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