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  Question about HVX200 editing set up

  Posted by Jason Hadden on December 20, 2006 at 12:45 am

  This may be a stupid question, but I would rather ask it here than risk getting duped by a dealer.
  I want to set up a whole new Mac editing set up around my new HVX200. I’m going to upgrade
  to a new Mac G5 and edit using Final Cut Pro. My question is, is that all I need for the best resolution
  and video capture? I mean, do I need a special HD card to pull my HD video from the P2 cards in order
  to get an uncompressed 10 or 8 bit resolution? Or, is taking the video straight from the P2 card from
  the HVX200 via firewire as good as the resolution can get?
  I guess what I’m really asking is can I edit at the 10 bit uncompressed setting with a special capture card
  or is this a moote point with the DVCPro HD codec, and firewire is all I need?

  Jason Hadden replied 19 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  December 20, 2006 at 1:11 am

  Can’t capture it any better than DVCPRO HD. You can finish in a higher format, if your client requires it. But with the aid of a good capture card (Kona 3) you don’t need to work with any better format than DVCPRO HD.

  Just get a Mac Pro, a bunch of internal drives for the sleds and work away.

  Oh, and watch this tutorial:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=8&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/p2_workflow/index.html

  Needs to be updated for FCP 5.1.2, but it is still valid on a lot of points.

  Shane

  FCP Preferences set to UNCONTROLLED ADVICE
  Littlefrog Post
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Jason Hadden

  December 20, 2006 at 8:12 pm

  Perfect, thanks man.

  Jason

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