HD-SDI to Firewire DVCProHD capture

[Jeremy Garchow]

You can use a 1200A or 1400 DVCPRo HD deck.

[Tony]

no you cannot since native dvcproHD is not 1920×1080 but for 720 and 1080 anamorphic recording the firewire outputs from the 1200A or 1400 vtr’s will allow a firewire ingestion workflow.

Tony Salgado

[Dan Riley]

Tony,

Don’t understand your answer.
Can you put an HDSDI signal from a camera and audio from your
audio guy into a 1200 or 1400 and output firewire E to E in realtime
into a Macbook Pro running FCP in ‘capture now’ ?

Won’t the 1200 or 1400 convert to DVCPROHD, and whatever
the size and frame rate it is that DVCPROHD like to spit out via firewire?

Dan

[Jeremy Garchow]

[tony salgado] “no you cannot “

Dude, obviously DVCPro HD is not 1920×1080 as I’m sure Chrispy is aware.

Lay off bucko.

[Sean Oneil]

[Danrnw] “Won’t the 1200 or 1400 convert to DVCPROHD, and whatever
the size and frame rate it is that DVCPROHD like to spit out via firewire?”

It’s a good question. I haven’t tried it but it definitely could work. If I had to guess I’d say it would. Are you thinking of renting but want to know if this will work first?

Worst case scenario, you’d have to record it to DVCPro HD tape first, then output it to the computer via firewire.

You do know that a buying a Decklink HD might be cheaper than a deck rental, right?

Sean

[Christopher Tay]

Hey folks…relax man. Everyone take a deep breath and chiiillll….

I’m aware that DVCProHD is not 1920 x 1080 and I’m happy for it to be converted to 1440 x 1080 so that it can travel down the Firewire path and be captured as a DVCProHD clip.

Just trying to figure out what I can use to convert the HD-SDI signal which is coming out from a HD switcher to a Firewire format which I can then feed to a Powerbook. Unless there is a Firewire HDD out there that can capture in DVCProHD format.

-chrispy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Firestore makes firewire HDDs. I don’t know if it’ll work for your situation, but it might.

Is this firewire switcher a native DVCPro HD switcher?

Jeremy

[Christopher Tay]

Hi Jeremy,

This switcher is a HD-SDI switcher. The Firestore Firewire HDDs only accepts a Firewire signal so I still need to find a device that can take a HD-SDI video signal and convert it to a Firewire signal.

I think probably easiest is to configure a MacPro with a HD-SDI capture card and then capture it as DVCProHD directly to a Firewire drive since the objective is to capture into Firewire drive which would be taken back to the edit studio for editing, as we the switcher is at another location.

-chrispy

[Dan Riley]

That’s what I’m fixing to do for my next multicam shoot.
But I need to find 4 Mac Pros to rent, then buy or rent 4 BM or AJA
cards, and get a timecode generator to feed all four cards.
I wish someone had that setup to rent.

Dan