How can you use this deck to capture and edit HD through firewire? you need special capture cards to capture 10-bit uncompressed digibeta, so how can you capture HD since it has a bigger color space and has an even higher bit rate?

What's the model number of the deck?

heath

Editing in Final Cut Pro HD is suppoerted natively over firewire. Here's a link that has some technical info:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/codecs.html

Panasonic's link is:
http://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/nab_access_hd.asp

Mike,

To make clickable links, do this:

[url ]www.dvinfo.net/conf[/url ]

Just take away the space between the two "l's" and "]"

heath

the model numer to the deck is AJ-HD1200A