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Can FC Express act as digitizing station for FCP?
(This message is cross posted in the Final Cut Express Forum)
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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Herb,
I don’t see why it wouldn’t, but you should also take a look at BTVpro, It’s a great little capture app, does killer adjustable time-lapse and still capture as well as motion. And its CHEAP!
I believe it’s at bensoftware.com
Have a wonderful day.
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Unless it’s changed, FC Express was DV only. Not sure if they’ve added DVCPro 50 support.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Does it support TC now? It didn’t originally. So sure you could capture a clip, but I thought it didn’t capture TC info – for that sole purpose of keeping it from being a rough cut or capture solution.
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I knew they have added HDV support in FC Express, but I dont think it can do DVCPRO
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It’s DV and HDV only…
Jerry
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Sure wish it supported at least one offline codec: OLRT would be fine.
Kevin Monahan
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