v1u 24p camera capturing using firewire 400

[Jerry Hofmann]

It’s sounds OK to me.

Jerry

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[John]

I’ve just happen to have been working on this exact problem over the weekend. Bottom line is this:

1) FCP 5.1.3 is not yet fully compatible with the Sony v1u; hopefully an update or FCP6 is coming soon…NAB maybe.

2) Capture of HDV material — both 1080/60i and 1080/24pA — will not allow you to capture over a camera start/stop point without it detecting a timecode break. So.. if you capture a large chunk of video, each shot will come in as a separate QT movie. This is regarless of how the Pref setting for ‘Timecode break’ is set.

3) At the moment… The only way (unless someone knows better) to get true 24p material out of the V1U over Firewire is to capture as ‘HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60’ (AIC) and then run your footage (each clip individually) through Cinema Tools and do a reverse telecine. Make sure you choose 23.98fps and ‘_CD_’ for the tempo. Then you have to edit in an AIC timeline. The files will be approximately 57GB per hour (vs 13.5GB/hour for HDV).

And to answer your question.. No, I don’t think that you will be able to capture AIC files to a MacBook Pro’s internal drive. My Quad Core MacPro immediately errored when I tried to capture to one of my internal SATA drives. I had to switch my capture disk over to an Xserve RAID (connected over fibre) to get it to work.

Hope that helps.

John Christensen
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