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    HMC-155 and Macbook Air

    Posted by Nanako Kurihara on February 15, 2011 at 5:41 am

    Hi Noah,
    Last summer you answered my question and bought HMC-155. I’m going to shoot documentary with it on location.

    Question 1
    I am thinking of buying a Macbook air so that I can copy the footage from SD card to portable Hard Disk like La Cie 1TB rugged triple interface and edit on my iMac at home.

    What do you say? I am reluctant to get Macbook Pro since it is heavy for a one person crew to travel abroad with camera, tripod, and so forth. I would edit on FCP. Does Macbook Air make sense in this case?

    Question 2
    After I edit the video on my iMac, can I use Macbook air to show one hour HD video, plugging it to a projector with a VGA adaptor? I am having trouble showing to people what I edited. If I can do it, how can I?

    Thank you in advance.

    Best, Nanako

    Uli Plank replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Noah Kadner

    February 15, 2011 at 6:44 am

    Sure- go for the MacBook Air- that’s what I use. You’d need a mini displayport to VGA- or better DVI but yes you could use it to drive a projector.

    Noah

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  • Nanako Kurihara

    February 15, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    Thank you, Noah! I will go for it.

    Nanako

  • Uli Plank

    February 15, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    You can even edit with it. So much power for it’s weight…

    Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

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