Capturing HDV with MacBook Pro

[Rob Grauert]

Here is an article on capturing HDV as ProRes:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php

Also, you only need capture your HDV as ProRes because HDV is 8-bit. You will gain nothing by capturing as ProRes HQ. HQ is ideal for 10-bit sources larger than 1920X1080.

Now, I’ve never captured HDV as ProRes, but I think you will be fine capturing through FW800 to one of those G-Tech G-RAIDs that are set up for RAID 0

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[John Fishback]

FYI, all ProRes codecs are 10-bit. Check it out in Apple’s ProRes Whitepaper It’s an interesting read.

John

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[Jim Edds]

Thanks for the link. I read the article but my main concern is proper setup to capture from the cam to an external hard drive connected to the laptop.

The HDV cam will be connected to the firewire 800 port on the laptop. It is ok then to connect an Esata drive to the express card slot with an express card esata adapter? I don’t want to connect the HDV cam to the hard drive and then to the FW800 port. I’m coming over from the PC world so I just need to make sure the hardware will work. Thanks!

[Zane Barker]

[Jim Edds] “The HDV cam will be connected to the firewire 800 port on the laptop. It is ok then to connect an Esata drive to the express card slot with an express card esata adapter?”

That is PERFECT I do it all the time.

Hindsight is always 1080p

[Jim Edds]

Excellent, thanks everyone for your posts. I’ll place my order for a Macbook Pro and FCP Monday. Watch after I order, Apple will introduce Quad Macbook Pros!

[Jim Edds]

I applied the timecode generator to a 1 hr. clip on the timeline. Works great. However, when I cut the clip up it wants to zero out and start counting again at the beginning of each clip. Is there any way to avoid this?

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[John Fishback]

Try using the Timecode Reader filter instead of the Generator. It will show you the source timecode of the clip.

John

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