FCPX and analog video.

[Gary Huff]

[Bret Williams] “A driver for thunderbolt would be a thunderbolt driver. I thought it was quite a bizarre statement as well.”

I had to install a driver for my Sonnet UHS-I reader to be used over Thunderbolt with the Echo Express.

That’s why that statement isn’t so odd to me.

[Bret Williams]

It may have been odd or not odd, but it is what he said.

[Gary Huff]

[Bret Williams] ” It may have been odd or not odd, but it is what he said.”

Well, reading it again, it mentions that these are FireWire devices. Given their age, it’s either going to work with the adapter or not anyway. Even if there was a way to craft a driver for it, that’s probably not going to happen.

[Bret Williams]

At least he’s succinct. Unlike a debate with Bill. You gotta carve out some serious time to read one of those threads!

[Neil Goodman]

I’m not sure how if he is working, how he gets anything done. He’s literally on top of every thread, all day long. It’s getting pretty tiresome.

Neil Goodman: Editor, The Esquire Network – NBC/Uni

[Francois Jean]

Hi
I did some testing reading DV tape over FireWire … in the situation I had (archiving), it did surpass my expectations: i had camera control , but mostly the DV camera was seen as a “CAMERA” in the FCP import window and could create a “camera archive” the tape ran an shots where auto-detected from original camera start stop and E-timecode breaks, i was very happy with the result… As good as DV gets … I did not try HDV over Firewire but i should work the same. I don’t like working with anything under 50 Mb/s. That’s why I would recommend using recording software that comes with blackmagic or Matrox hardware an connect trough “component” cables to your VHS and generate ProRes files ( 720×486 29.97 ProRes HQ targets about 63 Mb/s ) . Major Broadcast corporation usually require a minimum of 50 Mb/s source recording (i.e. IMX for SD, XDcam Mpeg HD 422 etc )

Voila

ZAP

[Darren Roark]

My two cents:

I have been working on a doc that has tapes n’ tapes of archival VHS footage I have been digitizing. (a word I haven’t used in a while) Other than using a Canopus or DV camcorder like you mentioned, you are going to want to rent a time base corrector and capture using an SDI capture card (or box) to prores. Even though it’s ‘just’ VHS, it looks so much better. Lastly, good condition svhs deck can really help regular vhs if the TBC can take s-video.

Hope this is a help. Feel free to PM me if you want to know my setup.

[Andrew Kimery]

And here I was thinking about what a waste of space my JVC SVHS / MiniDV combo deck is. lol

[Francois Jean]

VHS is not DV

DV should be ingested via Firewire No reencoding that way … (it is a form of data transfer )

VHS is analog and benifits to be directly ingested in ProRes…

I agree that a “Frame store Time base corrector” in the path is a plus but not cheap

all the best

Zap

[Gary Huff]

[Andy Branner] ”
Good thing I’M the one that has no clue what he’s talking about…”

Could you explain in detail what you mean? Are you saying that I didn’t have to install a driver under OSX in order to get my card reader working?