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OFFLINE EDIT ON POWERBOOK G4
Hi Cows:
Going to be cutting a feature shot on P2 at 720 24P. Wondering what folks might recommend in order to be able to cut on a laptop (at a lower rez)? Thinking about using an old 1.67 GHz G4 laptop and making a duplicate set of low-rez downconverts to cut with…preferrably storing the media on the internal 7200 RPM laptop drive.
Also, wondering what issues there may be with reconnecting to the DVCPRO HD media on my G5 tower?
Any real-world advice welcome. Thanks in advance.
Best, JIM.
OSX.4.3
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box
Seritek 1.2 TB RAID
AVID XPRESS PRO/MOJO -
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No need to offline. I have that exact model and cut DVCPRO HD quite a bit. A firewire drive like a Firewire VR or G-Raid works fine..
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Hey Shane:
Thanks for the info. Good to know you can cut DVCPRO HD 720 24p natively with this machine. Wonder how it will perform with FCS 2…
One more question: if I wanted to try to only use the internal drive (so I wouldn’t have to lug around a firewire drive), what codec/filesize would you recommend to downconvert to — I’m assuming re-linking to the hi-rez media would work fine as long as the media file names are the same?
Thanks for any advice in this regard.
Best, JIM.
OSX.4.3
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box
Seritek 1.2 TB RAID
AVID XPRESS PRO/MOJO -
Is lugging around a firewire drive all that difficult? There are several bus powered ones that handle DVCPRO HD just fine. G-Raid mini, LaCie has one…
If you MUST use the internal and go this route, then you can try media managing the footage to DV….or if you have a TON, then offline RT.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net
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