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mobile edit-pak… will this work?
hello gurus of the cow community,
i have a colleague who will be shooting & editing a documentary in the US and in europe. the budget is tight but i think i’ve put together a system that will work. i just wanted to get some thoughts from the cow on whether these specs look good and what the pitfalls might be.
the desire is to shoot in 1080 (p or i doesn’t appear to be an issue) and edit on the fly, sometimes literally while flying. from the cost perspective my thinking is AVCHD is the way to go, but i know there might be some issues in the log & transfer to FCP.
Camera:
Panny HMC150 AVCHD
16g and/or 32g SDHC Cards
Sony ECM-44B lav mic
Rode NTG-2 shotgun micEdit System:
macbook pro 13″
FCP 7
G-RAID Mini FW800/400/USB 2.0 for media drive
1-TB generic USB 2.0 external drive for back-up purposesthank you in advance for your input, as always it is greatly appreciated.
eric
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You will not be editing AVCHD, it will be transcoded to ProRes for editing. So the File sizes does up to about 62GB/hour.
While the 13″ is nice on an airplane I cannot imaging editing with that little screen. For your media drive make sure it is FW800 and 7200rpm. They do make portable bus powered ones, they are a bit more expensive but IMO it is a must for editing.
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why FW800 for less than 20 MB / second?
FW400 goes up to 50, giving you 2 streams.And i highly doubt these disks themselves will outperform 50 MB/sec.
Or am i missing something?
Bouke
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