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mini-dv to hdcam transfer caveat: don’t want to take to house
Hi:
We have to transfer our mini-dv doc. to hdcam for a festival. The all important caveat is this: we want to cut up till the very last moment, ie, day b4 premiere. Does anyone have experience/knowledge on how to possibly bring in an hdcam deck to fcp 5? what other hardware would i need? thanks in advance
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[BenjiR] “Does anyone have experience/knowledge on how to possibly bring in an hdcam deck to fcp 5? what other hardware would i need? thanks in advance”
You mean to lay off your MiniDV to HDCAM? Just get a system with a Kona 2 and that will do the upconvert on the fly on the way out. Won’t be as clean as going to a house with a Teranex, but it do this in realtime.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
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This is not an inexpensive proposition. HD stands for High Dollar. Just ask anybody who rides one. (A Harley, that is.)
If you are cutting on a firewire system, you have a problem.
You will need to feed your footage into something that will upconvert in real time and feed an HDCAM deck. The decks rent for about $450 to $1000 per day and it will need to accept the exact format that you are sending it. HDCAM decks are very particular about what they eat.
To begin, where are you located?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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belated follow-up here.
I’m located in nyc.We’ve decided to go to a house, but we’d like to upconvert the titles ourselves. We have access to an avid symphony. Our flow is this: spit out to minidv, re-aquire in the avid at one to one, do titles there at one to one, rent a digibeta deck, spit out to it, and send to hd house for a quick 24 hour turn-around. Any thoughts here on process/economics?
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