shooting HD to computer

[Walter Biscardi]

Yes you can, but you will not get any timecode. You will need to use “Non Controllable Device”

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Anthony Melendez]

Thanks for your response Walter. That is good news!
Do you know the settings for FCP? I tried but when I stop the capture now window, pressing esc key, it does nothing. I does not record any clip in the browser.

thanks again,
Anthony Melendez

Anthony Melendez

[Nate Stephens]

I use the HVX200 all the time FW to MBP to external mirrored sata drives works great.. Over 2+ hours of recording to small 2.5inch sata drives with out any problems…. FCP capture now

You might need to dial the camera time code generator to “free run”

[Anthony Melendez]

Hey, thanks Nate! I will try that. FreeRun Timecode.
Great.
I will post tomorrow, for my results.
thanks guys!!

Anthony Melendez

[Jeremy Garchow]

Save yourself the trouble and get yourself an ioHD and avoid any HDV compression. You can capture out analog component straight to ProRes 422 or (HQ) and record better images than if you record via firewire.

Jeremy

[Alan Okey]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Save yourself the trouble and get yourself an ioHD and avoid any HDV compression. You can capture out analog component straight to ProRes 422 or (HQ) and record better images than if you record via firewire.”

Or better yet, save yourself the money and get a Kona LHe card and capture to ProRes 422, letting the Mac Pro do the ProRes encoding on the fly.

Io HD – $3000

Kona LHe – $1600

The Io HD’s main selling point is its ability to be used with laptops. If you already have a Mac Pro, you don’t need the Io’s hardware ProRes encoding because the Mac Pro’s CPUs are more than fast enough to do realtime ProRes encoding on capture.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Great point. Sorry I misread. I thought it was MacBook Pro. Not MacPro.

Although, if you get the ioHD and a laptop, you can take it in and out of the studio if you decide to make capturing straight from camera a habit.

Jeremy