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Low Cost Tapeless camcorder for FCP
Hi Everyone,
I’m helping a friend put together a workflow that maximizes speed and low cost. (meaning–cheap, cheap, cheap and fast, fast, fast)
Is there a $300 to $600 tapeless camcorder that’s compatible with Final Cut Pro/Final Cut Studio 3?
I’ve seen a lot of cameras online that require converting files first and that’s just not an option for him.
Thanks for you help.
David
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Pretty much any tapeless camera, except the AVCHD cameras using FCP 7, are going to require some sort of a conversion to work with FCP. There’s no way around that.
An amazing and very cheap camera we had to work with recently was the JVC Everio series that was used by a researcher in Antartica. He shipped that camera to us for a story and as it had an HDMI output, I simply converted that to HD-SDI and captured the signal directly to ProRes via our AJA Kona 3 boards.
If I didn’t have that board, then it would have required a conversion process to make the files compatible with FCP. But the picture quality was absolutely stunning for a palm sized camera.
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SANYO is actually releasing the first camcorders that use apple’s iFrame on the 13th for about 500-600 dollars USD. It allow the footage to be imported for editing without a conversion.
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We recently had a client give a bunch files shot on a Flip camera (cheap). We converted to ProRes in Compressor, edited in FCP, and the results were much better than expected.
John
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