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Recommendations for a capture card/solution
I was reading a AJA whitepaper on I/O HDV and found it very informative with regards to AJA Kona LH.
But I am really impressed by the Blackmagic line and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a capture card/solution for inputing Canon HDV to a Mac/ and in doing so explain how he process would work.
That is, would I Input via component video, SDI, etc. and should I compress the footage? What arte the options, and what are the advantage/disadvantages of each.
Thanks!
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Not sure if its helpful or not, but HDV does not really need an Input solution.
I have the jvc hd100u and I capture the HDV footage via firewire.
I edit, color correct and whatever else, then nest that timeline into an uncompressed 10-bit
timeline (I have multibridge extreme btw and have done hardware downconversions while capturing the component inputs).I never go back to HDV. I only use it for aquisition.
It works very well on a quad G5 system. I can scrub the timeline as fast as I want anywhere and there is no performance degradation.
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