Workflow question

[John Palaganas]

Hi,

I want to know how big is the difference between the quality of these 2 workflows?

A) Camera -> Firewire -> Neo HD

B) Camera -> HDMI -> Blackmagic Intensity card -> Neo HD

My camera is a Canon HV30 so its HDV.

Thanks,
John

[David Newman]

Asuming live capture via HDMI, the difference is huge if you are doing effects work, or anything that benefits from twice the chroma resolution.

[John Palaganas]

Thanks for the quickly reply!

Yes it would be live capture. What about the risk of dropped frames? Also, will the filesize of the stream captured be alot bigger?

Im planning on using my Macbook Pro.

[David Newman]

If your PC is fast enough, no drop frame issue. Look at the CPU meter, if capture are under 80% CPU usage you are fine for handle the peak conditions. File are a little bigger as there is more information to capture.

How have you going to use a MBPro?

[John Palaganas]

Originally Posted by David Newman

If your PC is fast enough, no drop frame issue. Look at the CPU meter, if capture are under 80% CPU usage you are fine for handle the peak conditions. File are a little bigger as there is more information to capture.

How have you going to use a MBPro?

I can install the Intensity card into one of these Magma enclosures http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox1/ Express to PCI.

[Ray Bell]

You'll need to have a raid setup with lots of hard drives to handle the bandwidth....

[John Palaganas]

Originally Posted by Ray Bell

You'll need to have a raid setup with lots of hard drives to handle the bandwidth....

I do have raid setup on my desktop but I want a laptop solution :)