DVCProHD on a Macbook Pro

[Jeremy Garchow]

You are going to need something to monitor your footage. If you need a deck, get the AJ-HD1400, if that’ too costly, look for a Matrox MXO. You then need am HD monitor. Good luck as this is a tough one right now. Panasonic makes a pretty good LCD monitor, but ti’s not for real critical CC. Hopefully NAB will produce something crazy cool.

Get yourself the Sonnet ExpressCard/34 with port multiplying and get yourself a 2 drive enclosure from Caldigit for the field, and a bigger 5 drive Caldigit for the edit suite. If you want cheaper storage get a 2 drive Firmtek enclosure for the field. Unfortunately, an unprotected SATA raid is all that’s available for anything on the cheaper side of storage for laptops.

Get a Dell 2407 for more computer monitor space if that’s what you need.

And p2 Genie is a must.

Jeremy

[Shane Ross]

[JeremyG] “look for a Matrox MXO. You then need am HD monitor.”

With the MXO you can use a 23″ Apple Cinema Display for critical color correction…

And yes, the P2 Genie is a must.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Why? It’s just another LCD.

[Andrew Rice]

I already have a 23 Cinema Display. Do I need to connect through the Matrox Box or out of the DVI on the laptop? This is great info. I plan on keepping the RAID setup in the field and in the edit suite the same for now. The reason I use the term “in the field” is that I will be fairly mobile, as I am moving to Hawaii, and need to keep working on a project. We may be moving around quite a bit, thus the laptop. I don’t want to lug the G5 everywhere. Do you guys have a rough price on this setup? If not I will head to B&H for pricing.

Thanks….more advice is welcome.

[Shane Ross]

The Matrox converts the DVI signal to the specific LUD information on the Apple display to make the colors represented to be broadcast quality. That is part of the reason for the high price of the box. It isn’t just an ADVC-100 for HD land, it is much more.

Shane

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[Andrew Rice]

I will probably look for the Matrox Box. And I plan on using something like the Firestore. I am waiting to see if anyone will be breaking the 2GB limit. Am I correct in assuming that I can link the “firestore” to my Media drives via firewire and transfer footage? ie: firestore>laptop>media drive.

[Shane Ross]

[Andrew Rice] “Do I need to connect through the Matrox Box or out of the DVI on the laptop?”

The Matrox connects to the DVI out on the tower and laptop, then you connect the monitor to the Matrox via DVI.

[Andrew Rice] “Do you guys have a rough price on this setup?”

$995 for the Matrox. Since you already have the Apple display, the pricing stops there.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Hmm, haven’t seen or heard about that. Does it support LUTs on other outputs as well? I’ll have to check it out.

Jeremy

[Joslyn20]

shane,

for color correcting, does this hold true for other 1920×1200 displays from dell and gateway or is this specifically on an apple 23″? just checked out the matrox site and it claims to have a better HD picture than a pro HD crt of 800 lines. so i’m wondering how comparable is the picture color/accuracy(apple 23″) to a pvm-14L5/1 which everyone’s been raving about? thanks!

[Shane Ross]

[joslyn20] “for color correcting, does this hold true for other 1920×1200 displays from dell and gateway or is this specifically on an apple 23″?”

Well, I have the Dells, and I will be borrowing an ACD, so I will test that for sure.

[joslyn20] “just checked out the matrox site and it claims to have a better HD picture than a pro HD crt of 800 lines. so i’m wondering how comparable is the picture color/accuracy(apple 23″) to a pvm-14L5/1 which everyone’s been raving about? thanks!”

I happen to have the PVM14L5 as well, and will be comparing it to that. So…I hope to have a review by next week….or two.

Shane

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