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G4 800 dual and HDV
Ok Can I edit HDV on my system. If I can I can’t see the HDV matierial off the camera in the log and capture window, but but if I batch capture FCP goes to work. Once on the system the play back is glitchy. since the drives are fast enough for HDV or uncompress 10 bit SD I assume it is either the graphics cards or !gasp! the processors aren’t up to snuff. in Apple speak are therms HD and HDV the same in the system requirements list?
I am running FCP 5, 10.4.2, BMD 5.0 on G4 dual 800 1gig of ram, and 1 AGP Radeon and a second Radeon PCI. Also it has a 3uld scsi with a four drive strip acrosss two channels, plus an apple fibre card connected to 16 drive sata array as shared media storage with our full HD system.
Editor, Animator, and Compositor. J.E.L. Productions.
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Hi Trinity,
You will need a faster machine for HD editing. In the Technical Specifications for Final Cut Pro 5, it states “Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G4 (500MHz or faster) or G5 processor; HD features require 1GHz or faster single or dual processors“.
Please also see the support note DeckLink Minimum System Requirements for Mac OS X which details the need for a G5 with PCI-X slots to support HD with DeckLink cards.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
Hey luke,
Thanks for the reply.
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