Dont! Just don't.
I'm in the middle of a nightmare - I'm cutting a 190 minute piece and thought "huh! I'll capture to HDV and edit with HDV.... that's smart!" NO IT'S NOT SMART. YOU'RE A FOOL!!!! I should have read my own post about editing HDV using Apple Intermediate Codec in Final Cut Pro.
Rendering HDV is a pain in the arse. You go to render everything - you have to render everything, even a dissolve - and you get a lovely progress bar telling you that Final Cut will be "Conforming" until Christmas!
I now just render for preview (ctrl + r) and that bypasses the need to conform the video. I'll get into this in a bit more detail later.
If you are shooting HDV (now don't get me wrong, HDV footage looks great), for the love of God transcode your footage to DVCProHD, AIC, DV...... anything other than bloody HDV before you start to edit.
I'm currently transcoding the footage to DVCPro50 to make for an easier edit workflow. It looks great when burned to DVD and that's as far as this project is going.
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