G5 speed with HDV

[Walter Biscardi]

What do you mean by disappointing? I get three streams of DVCPro HD with my FW 800 array with realtime color correction and much more with my Fibrechannel array. What’s the system doing that disappointing and did you test this system with HDV before your ordered it?

[Nick Bennett] “motion 2 is very jerky,”

What graphics card are you running? Motion relies very heavily on the graphics card, not just the CPU or RAM. I have the nVidia Ultra 6800 which makes Motion smoke.

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

[Nick]

disapoi’nt v.t. fail to fulfil desire or expectation of, break appointment with, (person or abs.; disappointed at failure failure, in thing of one expected gain, that to find, etc.

And no here in the UK Apple aren’t in the business of lending out machines for customers to test, besides which the machine wasn’t built specificaly for HDV.

But thankyou for your advice on the graphics card to speed up the perfomance of Motion.

I’II remember not to bother you again.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Nick Bennett] “And no here in the UK Apple aren’t in the business of lending out machines for customers to test, besides which the machine wasn’t built specificaly for HDV.”

No, but VAR’s should have systems set up that you can test and try out before you buy. All the VAR’s here in my area have multiple systems from a basic DV to full blown HD systems which users can test out.

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

[Greg Penetrante]

You are not alone. HDV editing is slow on my dual 2.5 as well.

I get similar performance on my Avid Xpress Pro HDV.

I don’t think HDV was meant to be a post format. Because it uses Long GOP codec (MPEG-2) it really should just be an acquisition format.

here’s how I got around the speed hit: I transcode all my HDV footage to DVCPro HD 60i and edit that way. Speed is vastly improved and I have an actual intra-frame codec to work with instead of having FCP 5 do the heavy math on the Mpeg-2 codec…

Hope that helps a bit.

Cheers,
-Greg

[Nick]

Thanks for the advice Greg, I’m going to give that a try.

Cheers

Nick Bennett

[Max Kaiser]

Greg, I’m just getting started with HDV, too. All of the stuff I do will show in regular NTSC, not HD – what should I transcode to right away? DV25? And what is the best way of doing this?

Thanks!
Max

Max Kaiser
Hand Crank Films
http://www.handcrankfilms.com

Dual G5, 4.5 GB
FCP 4.5
OS 10.4

[Mark Maness]

Greg, how do you do that? I can’t change anything in FCS to allow me to do that. Are you capturing using the Component Out of your HDV machine? FCS will not allow chages to the HDV settings on my system. I’d love to be able to change the settings so that I can also capture in SD video but if you are using the firewire of the deck or camera, you can’t change any settings.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

Greg, how do you do that? I can’t change anything in FCS to allow me to do that. Are you capturing using the Component Out of your HDV machine? FCS will not allow chages to the HDV settings on my system. I’d love to be able to change the settings so that I can also capture in SD video but if you are using the firewire of the deck or camera, you can’t change any settings.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions