What's the fastest way to edit SD and HD in the same project?

Hi,
I'm running the latest version of FCP2 on the latest OS and I have dailies in both SD and HD that need to be cut into the same project. The HDV dailies are 1080p 23.98. We will be finishing in HD but that doesn't concern me because we're finishing this on a Flame. I have worked in SD and I've worked with HDV but always separately, never in the same project. I know that Apple ProRes settings are supposed to allow you to work in both in one project, however, I don't want to have to render every 5 seconds. Does that happen? OR will it allow me to play a cut straight down with no errors with both SD and HD footage in the same sequence?

I am going to kindly ask that you ignore what David is saying. The information he has given you to this point is incorrect.
You can capture HDV as SD. The camera or deck you are using will have an option to output the footage as DV. Mind you DV doesn't look as good as HD, and if your intent is an HD master, this would not be the way to go. Capture HDV as HDV...or heck, you can even capture it as ProRes via firewire:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
Just changing the settings to PRORES doesn't mean that you can now edit everything together. ProREs is a codec, just like DV and HDV. You can have your timeline set up to render HDV AS ProRes, but not sure what that does when you mix in SD on the same timeline.
Anyway, FCP is perfectly capable of mixing formats without rendering if you are running FCP 6. You will need faster drives for this than the normal firewire 400. And with HDV, you would be wise to use an Intel Mac, as HDV requires a bit of processing power. While I have been able to mix formats with my G5, I get a bright green render bar as opposed to a dark green bar on my MacPro.
OK, David did give one piece of true advice. You would be better off converting SD to HD before you edit. Or at least after you have locked picture (so you don't have to convert TOO much). Compressor does a really good job, and if you are capturing your HDV as ProRes, then upconverting the SD to ProREs will look fine. SD as HDV...ugh, I don't want to think about that.
Mind you, ProREs requires raided drives. DV is 3.6MB/s, and ProRes standard is 15MB/s...4 times that of DV. A raided FW800 drive like the G-Raid would be the lowest you could go, but I wouldn't count much on mixing formats with that. either an internal RAID (MacPro) or external eSATA Raid or mini SAS would be better. I like the CalDigit S2VR Duos...and this great desktop drive from MaxxDigital. SOnnet has good models...
Shane

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