Recording 1080i to MacBook Pro with external storage

[David S.]

Are you asking whether you can capture now in Final Cut Pro on the MBP to an external drive?

You can for all but pNative formats.

You don’t need a battery powered drive, just a bus powered drive.

[Mrvideo]

[David Saraceno] “Are you asking whether you can capture now in Final Cut Pro on the MBP to an external drive?

You can for all but pNative formats.

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Thank you David

I was wonering if anyone around this forum has had the experience with an HVX-200 and a MacBook Pro to capture a long form show. I am also aware that you can go into Quicktime Pro and start Recording what is coming in over firewire. Just don’t know if that utilizes timecode as well.

And about the comment “for all but pNative formats”. Are you saying there is an issue capturing 1080p, 720p in 60 and 24 frames?

[Jeremy Garchow]

How long do you want to capture for?

You can still capture 24pN through FCP, but your camera has to be set to 720p24 over 60.

Jeremy

[Mrvideo]

Hi,

My title says what I really needed but the question morphed into not being able to do any (x)p formats. I simply want to be able to record for up to two hours with HVCPRO HD and record it to a MBP with sufficient storage space, since 1080 is the most content to be captured frame size,

[Frank Nolan]

On thing you may want to watch out for is that a lot of bus powered drives are only 5400rpm which may not be sufficient for sustained 1080 data transfer for long periods. Obviously if you are asking about bus powered or battery powered drives then you will not have acces to AC, so you will be running the MBP of it’s battery as well. If using a bus powered 7200 rpm drive you will definitely burn through the battery power on the mac a lot quicker than normal as well. TEST TEST TEST.

[David S.]

You cannot use the QT Pro player to record from firewire live from the HVX200.

You need Final Cut Pro.