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Yet another system ? for FCP and DVCPROHD
Well I have spent hours going thru all the posts and not to mention phone calls to various vendors and I think I am more confused now then when I started this venture into the High Def Realm. Yea I know, Uh Oh.
Sorry, if this post rambles and also if I posted in wrong place. This seemed like a logical choice, since all the smart people were in here.
Well since change is scary I have avoided HD like it was a bird in China. Well I cannot avoid it anymore because an HD job was dropped on our laps as if it were dropped from a bird in China. Ok enough Bird Flu jokes. So I have to bite the bullet and set-up yet another system.
Here is my issue.
This job has 40-50 hours of Varicam footage that has already been captured using FCP 5 and for some odd reason they captured it as DVCPro 50. From what I read in previous posts it seems that they should have used the AJ-HD 1200 and captured it as native HD and went to town. But that’s nor here nor there.So my two questions are this.
1. Should I have them recapture the footage as Native HD or should we just edit the DVCPro-50 footage and then just recapture when they go “Online”. Yea, Dead term I know.
2. Depending on what choice we do, how should I set up a new system. This system does not have to handle uncompressed HD at this time but it would be nice to add those upgrades at a later time. Thru my limited knowledge this is what I came up with for the NativeHD.
QUAD G5 2.5GHZ 2.5 GB RAM, 250GB
NVIDIA QUADRO FX4500
23″ CINEMA HD DISPLAY- For Desktop
27″ WIDESCREEN LCD HDTV- Can I hook this up to the second DVI slot on the Quadro to view playback?
For storage could we just use the drives that they capture it to.For the current DVCPRO-50 footage that they have couldn’t I just run that on any G5 with FCP 5. Also what would be needed to watch playback.
I currently am working on a
G4 D1.25, 1.25 Ram, Cinewave 4.6 with the Pro Digital BOB.
Also have 17″ Powerbook, but would prefer not to have to use that.
And for jokes I have a really big paper weight also known as a Discreet *edit 5.0 system.Thank you for any advice you might have.
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Jason,
So my two questions are this.
1. Should I have them recapture the footage as Native HD or should we just edit the DVCPro-50 footage and then just recapture when they go “Online”. Yea, Dead term I know.
*** IMHO, if the aspect ratio is 16×9 on both projects (it probably is) and if you are not going to do any heavy motion-graphics then you can go ahead and edit now and then do an ‘online’ with the tapes, PROVIDED that they LOGGED the tapes correctly and there were no timecode breaks!
If you are going to incorporate any heavy graphics then they should recapture the footage in the native DVCProHD, that way you don’t have to deal wth repositioning any graphics elements and such…2. Depending on what choice we do, how should I set up a new system. This system does not have to handle uncompressed HD at this time but it would be nice to add those upgrades at a later time. Thru my limited knowledge this is what I came up with for the NativeHD.
QUAD G5 2.5GHZ 2.5 GB RAM, 250GB
NVIDIA QUADRO FX4500
23″ CINEMA HD DISPLAY- For Desktop
27″ WIDESCREEN LCD HDTV- Can I hook this up to the second DVI slot on the Quadro to view playback?
For storage could we just use the drives that they capture it to.*** The Quadro would be overkill right now. The NV7800 GT would be 3x cheaper and close in performance. The Quadro 4500 is for hardcore gamerz and/or heavy 3D users (like Maya, Cinema4D).
*** Later you can get a fibre-channel or U320 card and a large RAID so that you can edit in Uncompressed HD.
For the current DVCPRO-50 footage that they have couldn’t I just run that on any G5 with FCP 5. Also what would be needed to watch playback.
** Yes you can run it on your current setup. You’ll have to see if the Cinemave can do RT transcoding from DV50 to NTSC…
I currently am working on a
G4 D1.25, 1.25 Ram, Cinewave 4.6 with the Pro Digital BOB.
Also have 17″ Powerbook, but would prefer not to have to use that.
And for jokes I have a really big paper weight also known as a Discreet *edit 5.0 system.Thank you for any advice you might have.
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