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Editing HDV on Macbook pro-advise please
Hi everyone
I have a mac pro work station station. I do a lot of my editing on this
I am thinking of getting a macbook pro (7200 rpm hard drive) for editing HDV footage so I don’t have to be chained to the office and can edit on the fly.
I don’t have any other way to capture Pro Res 422 except the firewire into a laptop so am cautious about capturing pro res 422 instead of HDV due to the lack of time code info for recapturing.
How do other people edit HDV on a macbook pro…whats your workflow like? problems?
How well does a macbook pro handle HD editing?
Advise please….
cheers
ham
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6 Replies
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My 2.4 MBP is a great edit machine, but only because I added a 1tb SATA RAID to it. It’s not wise to tax the startup drive with media, especially HD.
Go look at the little Seritek two drawer and now 5 drawer units which you can plug right in.
Have a wonderful day.
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I use the MXO with my MBP and it cuts HDV like butter, AND outputs to any SD/HD flavor in realtime. A FW 800 1TB drive is all I use with this portable set-up and it works very well.
Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
Octocore 8 GB Ram, Radeon card, MBP, MXO
Windows XP Adobe Studio CS3, Vegas 8.0, Lightwave 9.2, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 6, Continuum 5, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapphire Effects -
Well, yes, that setup is fine, but if Ham wants to do DVCPro HD or ProRes he will need some faster drives.
Have a wonderful day.
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I just did 150 hours of DVCPRO HD 1080i ingest with a Macbook (not pro) on firewire 400 MyBook drives and it worked fine so I guess editing ProRes or HDV on a new Macbook Pro with a G-RAID or G-DRIVE in SATA wouldn’t be a problem at all.
Mathieu Marano
online editor – motion graphics – Post-prod director
Directeur technique de post-production
Le Bureau de post productionAdministrator of the Montreal Final Cut User Group
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Yes the only thing I haven’t tried on my set up is uncompressed HD and ProresHQ. I leave that to the Octocore. Everything else works fine. I edit HDV and DVCPROHD on it all the time without even a hiccup! Since the poster mentioned HDV specifically, he will be fine using this setup.
Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
Octocore 8 GB Ram, Radeon card, MBP, MXO
Windows XP Adobe Studio CS3, Vegas 8.0, Lightwave 9.2, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 6, Continuum 5, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapphire Effects -
I’m editing an HDV feature at the moment, and take the drive home to continue on my macbook in my own time. I haven’t had a single problem there.
My only problem is that there is a compatibility problem with the JVD GY-HD250 camera (and BR HD50E play deck) and FCP, causing scene breaks within takes that we cannot predict or control despite two weeks of exhaustive tests. JVC are looking into it.
No problem at native resolution with the media once in though. Macbook is fine. I use Seagate Barracuda drives for the ingest. They’re rock solid and available cheapest from ebay shop “atlast Solutions!”
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