General Capture question

[Tim Vaughan]

Brother, your gonna have to read the manual. Capture now does capture in real time off the camera. I don’t have FCP Express, only FCP Pro, but I imagine the settings are pretty similar. Under Final Cut Pro, click on System settings. Uncheck the “Limit Capture Now to …minutes”.

Tim

[Chris Babbitt]

How would you capture faster than real-time? Run the camera in fast-forward?

[David Roth weiss]

[Chris Babbitt] “How would you capture faster than real-time? Run the camera in fast-forward?”

Good question… High-speed tape duplication is acually done just that way, but no one ever implemented a high-speed capture technique using the same method. Too bad actually…

[Kevin C.]

thanks Bro. I went into system settings found that. thanks so much. I have manual, and few books but you guys will have to put up with my ignorance, and this software is so vast.

Yeah, precisely, I assumed, incorrectly, that the capture would blaze like you see a mp3 import into itunes. Maybe in the cyberfuture!

[Michael Buday]

“. . . no one ever implemented a high-speed capture technique using the same method. Too bad actually… ”

Sorry David, but that’s absolutely not true. Sony has had 2x or 4x capture with tape formats working for over seven years. Specifically, Sony could capture DVCAM footage from a DSR-80 deck at 4x faster then realtime into NLE’s that supported it.

Today, Sony IMX decks (using 1/2: beta tapes recording MPEG at 50mb/s) can transfer via SDTI (serial data transport interface) one video stream and eight audio channels at 2x faster then realtime. The Oprah Winfrey show is using this workflow everyday. They shoot with eight ISO’s, a line-cut, clean-feed and insert reel, then they have to ingest all that footage (about 12 to fifteen hours worth) into their NLE’s VERY QUICKLY. Using one XPRI NLE, they can ingest all that footage (at DigiBeta quality) in about 5 hours (the XPRI can digitize from two decks at the same time).

And further, the XDCAM Blue-Ray disc format allows you to transfer offline quality video and audio (similar to Avid’s AVR-10) at 25x realtime using Gig-Ethernet (which AVID now supports). You can also transfer Digitbeta quality off the disc into an NLE at 2x realtime. Sony wil show at NAB next year this same workflow working for HD on Blue-Ray disc. The cool thing is that you can log-on to these decks remotely via FTP. That way, if your footage is in another room or another county, you can digitize via the internet without having to wait for someone to FEDEX the material to you.

And no, I’m not a Sony employee!

Sincerely,

Michael Buday

[David Roth weiss]

Thanks!!! Its always good to learn new stuff…

Sure you don’t work for Sony???

Just kidding…