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HD on a Laptop
Just wanted to know if anyone is doing HD on a laptop with PP2.0, if so please chime in on what you are using.
I will soon have to make a choice on program and equipment for editing compressed HD in the field and will entertain any and all thoughts.
We will be shooting on the new HD XDCAM at 35Mbs.Bill
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The I/O will be the challenge.
On a laptop, anything that is FW capable is fine (provided the computer is up to the job…), so HDV native in PPro or HDV sourced to CineForm Aspect HD will work…but I’m unaware of an HDSDI card for a laptop…
TimK,
Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
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This is not an endoresement…
but if you have specific capture requirements beyond firewire based solutions (HDV)
you could look into Magma
https://www.mobl.com/expansion/products/expresscard_expansion/index.html
You’d still need to use this with Cineform Prospect HD to maximize your laptop diskdrive space and editing performance…
And you better have a dual core laptop…Prospect is very CPU intensive during cpature.
Alex
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Bill– I’m using a HP Pavillion dv8000t with 2 gigs of ram and the Centrino dual chip at 2.16GHz. It screams! On-line from the HP store, it’s about $2100.00. You can custom configure the drives anyway you want. I’m also running Aspect HD from Cineform and DV Rack from Serious Magic with the HD plug-in which works great. Very stable with no problems. Also check out Boxx. Alienware and 1Beyond, however you will pay about 5k for a similar configuration. I’m very happy with the HP. Larry
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