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Digitizing HD CAM footage?
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Yea, a bit of a disaster, eh? We may end up with some expensive footage on tapes we can’t even watch, let alone cut! at least it won’t be my head rolling…
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At this point, since you’re only going to have the camera for a couple days and don’t have an HD capture card, your best option might be to use a downconvert mode of the camera to get your footage into your system, with timecode of course. Then, while you’re doing your postproduction on the project in SD you’ll have more time to investigate various HD capture cards and workflows and everything won’t be so rushed. After you’re done cutting the project you can by the Kona or whatever you decide on, rent an HDCAM deck an online your project in HD.
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Liam
Please – get some help in for this. Throwing this together with no experience of HD post will not work. In a thousand years. Get a good reseller – quick – who can build you a system, or massively upgrade yours. It ain’t cheap and it ain’t simple.
Ben
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I have to fifth what others said (can one say so in English?).
The problem with HDCam is this: while it’s a highly compressed format (only a bit more bandwidth than DVCProHD), which could be edited native, Sony doesn’t support/allow this to anybody but themselves. Panasonic OTOH has licensed their codec, so Apple is supporting it very well. Because of this, the only route to go is uncompressed. That means serious bandwidth, a HD-SDI card from AJA or BlackMagic and tons of very fast (and reliable) storage
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How about this? Mail your tapes to a friendly post house and have them digitize to DVCPROHD, then have the hard drive mailed back to you. DVCPROHD looked indistinguishable from uncompressed HD, yet it takes up only 10% of hard drive space.
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