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PC OR MAC as monitor & storage on-the-go ?
hi,
i just got 2 new HVX200, 2x 32g cards and a 160g firestore plus a macbook pro with fcs2. Lovely. btw, the first in Azerbaijan!
But i’m one of those poor sods who can’t afford a real HD monitor (the organisation’s budget just won’t allow it).
From my own modest pocket – and since i’m supposed to be doing a lot of training – i also got the HVX bootcamp series, Gary Adcock’s ‘Inside the HVX 200’ and a couple of other training / tutorial DVDs.
But i feel that i need some other Monitor to see & show what i’m doing ‘live’. The folks i’m training have to start from scratch, learn composition, light, why i get upset when they start zooming, etc.
A friend told me wants to try attaching an Archos 604, because it works great in sunlight – that just sounds weird to me.
I was hoping to get a small-ish laptop, also for storing files and perhaps even burning data DVDs using p2cms.
Is there an elegant, cheap solution for both viewing and storing while in the field? -
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Can’t beat an old Powerbook- you can load in P2 cards directly and still run FCS 2 on a faster one.
Noah
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thanks, noah, you’re a star (you must be, i bought your DVD)
Unfortunately, i’m sitting in Azerbaijan, not the kinda place where you can find a Powerbook. We don’t have a single Apple dealer within a 1000 miles, only a ‘licensed reseller’ who thought that iMovie is better than FCS2.
Is it possible to get a connection to a MacBook (non-Pro) or a non-Mac laptop (maybe even a tablet) via composite cable (and some affordable adapter) to use it as a viewer/monitor?
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Well you could connect via firewire and use something like Scopebox to view. But that would be monitoring not capturing. You can capture from the camera via USB- but it’s pretty slow and while that happens you can’t shoot.
Noah
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thanks again, noah
i’m not sure i understand you though:
– the scopebox site tells me that
“Not only can you monitor your video, you can capture it too. ScopeBox’s recorder palette allows you to digitize your video direct to disk. Digitize your incoming signal to QuickTime movie or DV stream”.
– how is that better than using live capture in FCP (which my dealer in germany suggested)? Is that something you could recommend (live capture)?also
-Is there any way at all of getting the composite video into a Macbook / affordable hardware adapter? -
Sure buy an AJA IO HD.
Noah
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noah, you have a very liberal concept of ‘affordable’
actually i’m being a little stupid here, i guess, i wanted to avoid spending too much on a) a nice HD monitor and b) at least one more big RAID for back-ups.
Thank for letting me know, however indirectly, that there are some things i simply need to spend more money on.
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