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HDMI deck control with an intensity card?
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No it won’t do that. On the other hand you don’t lose the first few seconds of each take as is the case with firewire (when digitizing audio and video over firewire).
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Thanks for the info Justin. I had rather hoped that there would be a way in which the time code carried down the firewire could be used to create individual clips when using the Intensity Pro.
Geoff
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In all honesty- why would you wan’t that? Most people pick up a capture card so that they avoid the tape being split into many clips. If that is what you need then just digitize via firewire- your clips should be split upon each take. Then transcode to whatever codec you need to edit in if other than HDV. Just curious what camera was used too.
J.
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Hi Justin,
I’m using a Z1 at present although I intend to get separate VCR deck in due course. The HDV format is being converted to ProRes on capture as to do this conversion in FCP is very time consuming as is the process of spliting a long ingest into individual clips – it seems that it is not possible to do this automaticaly post capture as with dv. Is there a better way?
Geoff
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When you digitize your footage via firewire does it come in as separate clips at each take as with the JVC? If so then it should be easy to just use compressor to batch encode all the individual clips to Pro Res and your set.
I don’t have the Sony but if it digitizes HDV as one giant clip over firewire then I guess your current workflow is the only way.
Hope this helps.
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Yes on both counts! Bringing in HDV via fire results in separate clips that I now convert as you suggested; the only problem is the extra time that it takes! If I use Intensity Pro to convert to ProRes on the fly, then I have to manualy split the long clip into individual takes, again time consuming; it’s a pity that breaks in the time code cannot be recognised over the firewire when ingesting via the HDMI port – firewire is used for deck control after all.
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