Capure HD in iMovie HD and edit in FCP 6 and render in ProRes workflow

I would like to capture in iMovie HD 6 and edit in FCP 6. This workflow is much faster for me for this king of project.
After reading this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6517235&#6517235
I understand that iMovie converts to AIC when capturing. Is there any visible quality loss, considering my output will be a DVD (replications)?
Also, I was advised to render in ProRes. Will it be a good workflow?
The camera was a Sony Z1.
Thanks.
Message was edited by: cariocastyle

The question that is lingering in my mind is "why add iMovie to your workflow to begin with?"
The capture HDV in FCP and render in ProRes workflow seems a bit more streamlined. I'm not entirely sure about this, but you may be able to capture in FCP as AIC, but I don't have any HDV equipment around that I can test this out with. I thought I read about this somewhere, but can't remember exactly where and when.

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Ok ready? Digital Audio is the issue here. Digital Audio, DAT, DVcam, HD, DA88, is mostly recorded at 48k. CD's are 44K, but most other formats are 48k. The 24fps conversion to 29.997 conversion causes a major headache for audio folks. Without more boring details, when converting video from 24fps to 29.97fps, all the people have to re-adjust all of their audio from 48 to 49.97 to keep in sync. As a result they spend a lot of time converting their audio and more importantly to them, they lose the pure digital clarity. Also handing sound files back and forth between picture editors and sound editors and music editors has never been convenient because of this issue. At some point a sound file is imported or exported incorrectly and the sound has to be put through a digital process to get it to be in sync again. So how do you solve this constant tedious conversation about whether the Audio is at 48k or 49.97? Well the problem becomes an accounting one once again. The issue really is how the video editing machines account for time code. For the longest time, these machines were built with the idea "We do 24fps everybody resample around us." Remember, this technology was invented only 15 years ago when disk drives were small, machines were slow, and moving pictures were severely compressed to just to get them onto the hard drives. Keeping everything in sync was a major hardware task back then, and sales of machines that could edit 24 frames were dominated by film companies who only knew about 24 frames a second. Now, not so much. So to keep the audio at 48k and not need any conversions, the video editing machine would have to account for the conversion between 24fps and 29.97 NTSC time code slightly differently. The answer is to play back 24fps back at 23.98 to NTSC devices and as result the audio would stay pure and original at 48K!! However, your cackles would arise and of course would cause the question in everyone’s mind which was your first question “are we really editing at 24fps?” Which is of course why long ago nobody ever marketed a 23.98 Video Editing Software/hardware solution because all day long they would have to answer this question over and over. Better just make the machine do everything at 24fps (even the accounting) and let the audio grunts have to deal with it.
So the answer is yes, you will be editing in 24fps. Audio will remain at a pure and original 48k. And if you have to output to NTSC for any reason (and yes I promise you one will come up) the machine will play the picture back at 23.98 so that it looks great and the audio will come out at a pure 48k.
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