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G4 Ibook/ FW 400 DVCPRO HD
Will dvcpro HD work in fcp 5 on an Ibook G4 over fw 400 drives? Anyone have any experiences with this? I plan on doing most of the edit on a G5 system but doing client edits on location at their office.
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Sorry. Need at least FW 800 drives for this. Or external SATA arrays.
You could capture the footage…convert it to DV, edit that, then relink to the DVCPRO HD master footage later. I hear that some people do that. I don’t have any firsthand experience myself…
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[Joseph Farris] “Will dvcpro HD work in fcp 5 on an Ibook G4 over fw 400 drives? Anyone have any experiences with this? I plan on doing most of the edit on a G5 system but doing client edits on location at their office.”
FW400 drives might work, but not reliably. FW 800 is better.
The bigger issue is the laptop. FCP does not support DVCPro HD capture via a laptop, you must capture via a G5 for full quality. The footage captured via a laptop will be degraded in quality and will look like DV. Note that the only place you see a DVCPro HD deck connected to a laptop is on the Panasonic site, not anywhere on Apple’s site.
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I thought that DVCPROHD was a digital product, made up of 1s and 0s. If you capture/transfer it even onto a laptop you have an exact copy of the original, how could it have a degraded image quality? I don
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[Blub] “I thought that DVCPROHD was a digital product, made up of 1s and 0s. If you capture/transfer it even onto a laptop you have an exact copy of the original, how could it have a degraded image quality? I don
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