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Can FC Express act as digitizing station for FCP?
I need a secondary digitizing station for my FCP-HD system, and as I don’t need all the extras of Final Cut Studio, nor the expense, I was thinking that a simple FC Express setup, networked to my main FCP G5 would be a good idea. My question is — am I right?
I need to ingest both DVCAM and DVCPRO 50 natively. I would like, but it wouldn’t be a deal breaker, to assign camera angles during capture because I do a lot of multi-camera work. I would capture the files to my FCP fibre channel drives, and then open the project file up in FCP when ready to start cutting. I would also need the ability to export in the codecs I use with FCP: DV, DVCPRO50, Uncompressed, MPEG2, Windows (with flip for Mac.)
Is this possible and what would be the minimum hardware requirements to run Express for this purpose — could I get away with a Mac Mini for example, or would an older G4 be the way to go.
Thanks
Herb Sevush
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FCE does not do DV50…
only DV25 or HDV
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