Importing Footage DV/NTSC codec Hi Res into Final Cut Studio

A friend, computer wizard, figured out a way to capture dv footage hi res using a linux computer. (this enabled to captured 4 tapes at once). He used the DV/NTSC codec and we checked that all the settings matched final cut's settings.
The files play back in QT perfectly and QT identifies the codec as the same as FCStudios.
However, when importing these files into FC Studio, 2 oddities occur:
1. The files require rendering
2. Media manager is unable to recompress file to low res
any advice (besides capturing it all over using FC Studio)?
Thanks!

Hi-res?? DV NTSC is 720x480 with DV compression applied, period. There is no such thing as "hi-res" DV video.
If you have captured video at a high-definition frame size, with DV compression, then you have created some bizarre franken-codec, which may bear some similarities to DVCPRO 100, but is neither DV nor HD, nor anything that could be native to FCP, even if Quicktime is able to open or play it back.
If you are able to at least import to FCP, you are halfway there. chances are you are close. However, if the footage is not native, and you can't tweak the sequence settings to match your video, there is nothing you could do other than
1. fix whatever is wrong with the codec as it was captured, and recapture everything
2. re-export all the media to DV NTSC using FCPs batch export, or Compressor's Advanced Format Conversion
3. go ahead and edit with the non-native media and render, render, render.
Tell us what kind of info you see in the Movie Info window in QT Player. Capture a clip as DV NTSC with FCP and open the source file in QT Player and compare the movie info windows, you might be able to figure out what the difference is. I'm very curious about capturing 4 tapes at once on a single system.
Also, why would you be using Media Manager to down-res the clips?
This sounds very interesting, if a little confusing...
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