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what codecs does io support when digitizing?
hi there.
i’m thinking about buying an io ld as an “on the road” capture device. my question is: can i hook the io ld to my powerbook and digitize straight to dv or photo jpeg for offline?
i’ve dealt with decklink cards before that did the job but where obviously internal devices on desktops and didn’t use the fw port.thanks in advance.
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You should be able to capture to any codec your Mac and FCP supports capturing to (the Io doesn’t care, it’s just sending a 10-bit uncompressed signal to FCP). The exception would be ones that require a specific hardware capture device (not many of those).
You can do what you’re asking with the Powerbook, but you should capture to (and work off of) a different hard drive than your startup drive. However, you can’t use the Io and a Firewire drive both at the same time using your Mac’s built-in FW ports. You’d need to get a FW card for your Powerbook to run the Firewire drive.
Tony!
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great, thanks for the answer!
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[Tony!] “You’d need to get a FW card for your Powerbook to run the Firewire drive.”
Hi,
Or a SATA card.
Best Wishes,
Mitch
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[MitchJi] “Hi,
Or a SATA card.”
Yep, good call Mitch. I’d choose a SATA card as a first choice as well.
Tony!
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Io > DV/DV50/JPEG on PowerBook also require separate HD?
Would be quite nice for on-set captures.
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