• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  capturing footage with cheapo camera

  Posted by Tielman Dewaele on June 27, 2007 at 1:14 pm

  Hello,

  I want to capture a lot of tape(MDV). But i dont want to use my Canon xl2 for this, because the of the heads.
  I want to use a cheap handy cam, to capture all my tapes.
  Will it affect the quality of the footage? Because the footage i have are shot pretty good.

  Need advice on this.

  The camera is a cheap simple sony handycam…model doesnt mather

  FCP Studio 5.0
  MacPRo quad core. OSX
  Firewire to capture…

  THANKS
  T.

  Peace

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  Stace Carter

  June 27, 2007 at 1:26 pm

  This makes perfect sense – since you’re going firewire/digital it’s just data, so if you experience dropouts, etc they should be major and noticeable, but that would be an alignment issue and not a “quality compromise” per se.
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  Lee Berger

  June 27, 2007 at 1:58 pm

  Since you are capturing data over FireWire there is no playback quality difference between el-cheapo and your XL2.

  Lee Berger
  http://www.leebergermedia.com
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  13

  June 27, 2007 at 5:08 pm

  I have seen some cheepo cameras only play back the tapes that they recorded, most likely this is because the cheeper heads become misaligned more easily.

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