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HD newbie question
I’ve got an HD job coming up. Based on what I’ve got (G5 w/ blackmagic Decklink card & FCP 4.5 HD) here’s what I think I need to do the edit:
– a camera
– a deck (
– a monitor
all these items are rentableI assume that I’ll also need a card capable of going to/from the HD deck. Any recommendations? I hear that these things can take HD through firewire but that sounds hinky (more compressed than the other output). True/false?
Black Magic’s Decklink HD Pro cards look nice and what about the Griffin solution to turn a Cinema Display into an HD monitor? Has anyone had experience with it? It would beat the hell out of buying or renting an HD monitor.
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A Kona 2 card can down convert HD for display on an NTSC monitor, and capture uncompressed HD… (course you won’t see the HD, but will see the correct color etc.. I’d wonder about color correction on an LCD in general… the gammas are very different for starters. Capturing HD thru FW would involve the Panasonic gear (Varicam)… it’s compressed, but it’s native and pretty much lossless actually. I’d think that the cost of doing it this way would be a lot less expensive post-wise, and much easier on the storage budget.
To capture and work with uncompressed HD, you’ll need some very serious hard drives for the media capture/playback. SCSI 320 array at least… or a fibre channel solution… like an X Serve RAID…
Jerry
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What about this new X-SCSI technology that Paralan is pushing to make less expensive RAIDs? I can’t imagine the terms “less expensive” and “SCSI” in the same sentence, but there you go.
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