Sony HDR-SR1 – Mac AVC-HD workflow to FCP (HDV2)

[Kim Levin]

I am using the Sony HDR-SR1 camera with FCP 6.0.2 on a MacBook Pro with upgraded ram. I am not having any trouble ingesting the footage but I am having some issues with hard drive space. I am using the Apple Codec 422. A one minute clip is approx. 900 MB. I have been traveling in the Balkans shooting some short doc pieces. I filled up my 500GB external, had to buy a second one and have already filled that up. I still have more footage to download. I shot in HD but I can’t figure out why it is taking up so much space. The hard drive on the camera is only 30 GB but every time I have downloaded the camera is seems to chew up more like 150 GBs or more of space on the external. I am sure there is something I don’t know about compression settings or something. Is there anything I can do or is this just how it works? If there is something to be done is there a way to change the setting for the footage that I have already imported? Or can I only make the adjustment from here on out? Thank you so much for your help. All the best. Kim

[Solomon Lubwama]

Hi, I have a Sony HDR-SR10 camcorder. I want to transfer footage of around 5 hours to my final cut pro studio on a Mac computer. I have 400 gb on my external drive.Is the disk space enough for 5 hours? What should be the settings in my Easy set up?