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Capture DVCPRO HD as ProRes Proxy via Firewire
Does anyone know if I’ll be able to load DVCPRO HD footage via firewire and have it transcode to PRORES proxy?
I’d be doing the loading on a MBP 2.4GHZ with 4 GB RAM, to a Glyph GT062 connected via FW800 on the ExpressCard port.
Thanks
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Oooh! This is bleeding edge stuff. I’ll watch this space!
(sorry that I don’t have any advice…)
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No…not without some capture device. And we’ll need to wait for driver updates for the AJA I/O HD and I/O EXPRESS and Matrox MXO2 and MXO2 Mini to see if they support that.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
I think it is reasonable to assume that going to all ProRes (save the 444) should be possible with any of the capture boxes and cards (not saying the new drivers won’t be needed) since you can use these boxes to do to convert to most codecs like DVCPro50, DVCProHD and the like which take more processing power, and these conversions are happening on the system, like all MacPros with cards installed, the cards are not doing the work.
BUT if you are asking can this conversion happen when capturing from a camera or deck’s FW port, I wish but the systems haven’t been able to do any conversion, save HDV to ProRes.
So this is all based on history, the first I think is a safe bet, it will work, the 2nd is iffy are best, this maybe one thing that SL will improve on.
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Oh, well. It was worth investigating.
I’m right in between projects, and thought about upgrading. I think I’ll wait until Snow Leopard. Still on Tiger.
I’m looking around at HD monitoring. I was interested in the MXO until I saw I loose dual screen editing.
I’m mainly offline editing so I’m leaning to trying the MXO2 mini. Used the AJA IO for years. But I’m not too keen on the price tag of the IOHD, and the IO express seems to be lacking up/down conversion.
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