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Nick Royer April 5th, 2007 08:09 PM
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I use FCS and it's great. I've never used HDV on my MacBook Pro, but I've done it on Mac Pro's and it works perfectly. It looks great to. If you have a mac or you can afford one, get FCS.

Harm Millaard April 6th, 2007 05:31 AM
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Originally Posted by George Loch (Post 654570)
The Intensity/Mjpeg codec offers a few advantages:

-You *can* bypass HDV compression by capturing directly to the computer via HDMI in either Cineform, BMD's utility or even PPro.

-In post, you can capture full-frame video (1920x1080) directly (Prospect HD can do this but at a higher cost).

-You can monitor via HDMI output to an HD Set in PPro.

I think the advantage is certainly greater for PPro and FCP users. For Vegas users, tell Sony to open up a standard architecture.

-gl
Can you explain HOW you can bypass HDV compression, when that is all you have on tape? On tape it is already HDV compressed, so it seems impossible to bypass it.

George Loch April 6th, 2007 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Harm Millaard (Post 655007)
Can you explain HOW you can bypass HDV compression, when that is all you have on tape? On tape it is already HDV compressed, so it seems impossible to bypass it.
I didn't explain it well enough...sorry. I meant before it is recorded to tape. Capturing a live stream from HDMI.

-gl

William Boehm April 6th, 2007 09:44 AM
My question would be then for field and nature videography is there a recommendation for a field hard drive that would record all this info? it is economical, uncompressed and better quality

Kevin Shaw April 6th, 2007 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by William Boehm (Post 655135)
My question would be then for field and nature videography is there a recommendation for a field hard drive that would record all this info? it is economical, uncompressed and better quality
So far the most realistic option for capturing something less compressed than HDV in the field would be to use a Panasonic HVX200 with a Firestore hard drive, but that may not be realistic if you're recording many hours at a time.

Harm Millaard April 7th, 2007 03:44 AM
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Originally Posted by William Boehm (Post 655135)
My question would be then for field and nature videography is there a recommendation for a field hard drive that would record all this info? it is economical, uncompressed and better quality
There are possibilities to attach an Express card or cardbus eSATA to your notebook and use a 4 disk RAID0 array in an external storage enclosure, this can handle the data rate and allows for sufficient storage capacity for long shoots, but the practical problem in the field is power. Do you have an AC outlet? The second problem is of course portability.

Practically speaking this works well in a studio, but not in the field, meaning outside.

William Boehm April 7th, 2007 03:52 PM
i shoot with an canon xh a1 and i need the portability..specially for the bushwacking i do on the olympic peninsula or vanouver island outer coast. i have thought of trying something portable...but i generally burn three of four tapes. i just hope the software will catch up to hdv soon and there will be less concern about the highly compressed codex that needs to be converted. i am absoutely green on the editing end. bill

Harm Millaard April 8th, 2007 02:58 AM
The Canon A1 has no way to output uncompressed HDV. If you want a solution just to capture use DV Rack or OnLocation and a simple eSATA drive. Look again at a previous post with the thumbnail attached. It explains it reasonably well I think.


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