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Laptop editing
I will be using a client’s Macbook Pro, 15″ 2.4Ghz to capture and edit. FCP 6.03. All material will be captured from the camera in HDV or DV via firewire.
Question
Can I capture to a firewire 800 drive with the camera plugged into the firewire 400 port?
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Will I have to use a sata drive and card via the express 34 port?This is a demo project in Africa, capturing about hour of content simple cuts and dissolves, no Motion work. This is the only time the laptop will be used for production.
Dan
Dan Boyd Media Services, Inc.
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7 Replies
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You should be fine with the Fire Wire set up, I was doing the same 5 years ago on my 17″ 1.33gHz G4 laptop, so the Intel breed should have no issues.
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Should work OK, but best to test real-world performance with the camera and drive you will have out in the field. I believe there’s just one firewire bus in the MBPro even though you have a 400 and 800 port.
Will you ever be laptop editing again? If so, an eSata solution would be great on location. I use a firewire 800 expresscard to get an additional bus for laptop editing, that way I can use a camera plus a RAID or two RAID drives without slowing anything down. If I could afford it right now I’d have eSATA drives instead.
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Thank you all for the help. I was not sure that two firewire devices would work at the same time.
Dan
Dan Boyd Media Services, Inc.
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Just when you thought the thread was over…!
Yes, it should work, especially with straight DV, but maybe you should tell your client to pick up an express card firewire bus, they’re only 90 bucks.
When I think of transferring footage on location many miles from the nearest Radio Shack, I like to know there’s a back-up plan! And for HDV’s processor-intensive demands, it could make work go faster. -
In my experience (but with a Powerbook) I needed the express port in order to ingest video while capturing it to an external firewire drive.
bob c
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I do it all the time on my C2D MBP 2.16 15″ 3GB RAM.
Sean McPhillips
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[Sean McPhillips] “I do it all the time on my C2D MBP 2.16 15″ 3GB RAM.”
good to know. It didn’t work (or worked intermittently) on the MBP I was provided, until I added the firewire card. I don’t have the MBP here so can’t provide the spec’s.
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