Final Cut uncompressed and G4

[Marco Solorio]

Absolutely. Look at any of the offerings from AJA, Aurora or Blackmagic Design. There’s many options to fit your workflow style.

Marco Solorio  |   OneRiver Media

[Walter Biscardi]

Heck, you can run uncompressed HD with a G4. I did it with my old CineWave and a Dual 1.25 machine. I think a Dual 800 was the base requirement for uncompressed HD.

Anyway, as Marco says, just look for an offering from those companies and be sure to check their websites for minimum requirements for their cards.

Then get yourself at least a FW800 RAID for the speed to handle the footage.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Gary Morris mcbeath]

You can run uncompressed SD on a G-4, and HD if you have the Cinewave set-up. But for HD, CW appears to be the only answer, and it looks like CW is on its way out. The AJA Kona2 HD card will only work in a G-5 with PCI-X slots, and the Decklink HD cards will revert to SD operation in a G-4. Aurora’s HD card is not yet shipping.

I have the same dilema right now: I’d like to edit in HD (HDV or DVCProHD codecs), but it appears I cannot monitor my video on a broadcast quality monitor without one of these HD cards. In the case of HDV, both Sony’s and JVC’s decks will mirror the image sent out by Firewire to component out,(much like we drove our monitors with DV), but word is FCP5 will not mirror out through Firewire.

I’m open to any suggestions before I replace my trusty 1 Ghz dual G-4.

Gary Morris McBeath (Piper)
SaltAire Cinema Productions

[Walter Biscardi]

[Piper] “I’m open to any suggestions before I replace my trusty 1 Ghz dual G-4. “

Pick up one of the original G5 Dual 2.0’s for about $1,899 before they’re gone, put at least 3GB RAM in it and you’ll have a very fast, very capable system. Then when the next generation G5’s come out, you can step up to the latest and greatest.

I’m running the Kona 2 and the Aurora PipePro on my two G5 systems.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters