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Editing HDV on MacBookPro
Is it possible to edit native HDV footage on my MacBook Pro? It has 2 GB RAM , but I can’t even watch the footage without a dropped frames warning coming up almost immediately. I have experimented and found that the HDV Apple Intermediate codec gets rid of the dropped frames problem, but it takes FOREVER to render. Is there a better solution?
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If your looking for RT you’ll be unlikely to find it on a laptop, what speed is your hard drive? 5400 or 7200?
If 5400 you might try using an external 7200rpm drive for media over FW…
Also if you don’t have a scratch drive you might try that too..
But in terms of RT a laptop won’t cut it, you’ll need to get a desktop…
Simon Carlson-Thies
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Trying a 7200 rpm drive now…
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[Simon Carlson-Thies] “But in terms of RT a laptop won’t cut it, you’ll need to get a desktop”
The MacBook Pro is as fast, if not faster than a bunch of “Desktops”.
But as stated, you will want to get an external drive system for your video editing. -
Just tried using a 7200 rpm lacie external drive, imported one HDV clip off of it into FCP on my MacBook and same thing… dropped frames warning as soon as I try to play the clip… any suggestions?
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Ditch the LaCie and get a FireWire 800 drive like a G-Raid.
Kevin Monahan
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You can keep lacie, but def. use FW800, lacie is not the problem its FW400 thats the problem…
Simon Carlson-Thies,
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Thanks for the input… that’s one thing I still haven’t put together is a 7200 rpm external drive winth FW800 on both ends… working on it…
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You’ve got a MacBookPro, why are you even thinking of FW? For the absolutely fastest performance
on your laptop, the new SeriTek Express 3/4 SATA card is the fastest thing you can get. The dual-core
laptop is plenty fast enough for HDV, and with SATA drives (get 2 and a 2 drive case and stripe them),
there’s nothing faster.
My 2 cents,
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Sounds good Ed. One thing that you can never overkill is drive speed. 😉
Kevin Monahan
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It’s mostly that I’m jealous. I’m using a 17″ PB for location editing and my 2 drive FW800 RAID is the best I can do.
I can do some UC8bit with it, but mostly use it for my Betacam to DVC50 editing.
I would love a SATA 2 drive array. Seritek makes a cardbus card for SATA, but I don’t think the performance gain is worth
the change. It seems that because of the PCMCIA slot bus, you don’t get the full speed of SATA.
And besides, the more I “suffer” with my FW800 setup, the more likely I’ll spring for a new Macbook Pro soon. 🙂
Ed[Kevin Monahan] “Sounds good Ed. One thing that you can never overkill is drive speed. ;-)”
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