[Birger Saetre]

Hello all,
I’ve worked with the DR-60 for a few years now and it’s a very handy little device which works perfectly with avid MC.

Just to blow a few things out of the water here… do yourself a big favour and ditch the idea of going via FCP and ProRes4:2:2, it will take forever, screw up the gamma settings and no doubt cause endless further problems. The DR-60 works in many ways as a VTR but records a native HDV Mpeg-2 Long GOP stream as .M2T files… fortunately for us avid supports nativly HDV material and therfore it needs NO transcoding on the way in to avid, only a simple rewrapping into avid’s own MXF structure..this allows for much faster than realtime ingest into avid, ie, you dont need to transcode into DNX-HD145 or whatever… altough there is a small hit on response of the avid while working with HDV native material,but any reasonalbe machine now will make it worth it for hard drive space to keep material native till you get to finalizing you project, where you can transcode your final sequence to DNXHD or standard def 2:1 depening on how your delivering…

to import into avid start a HD project at 1080 59.94i, attached the DR-60 to firewire port, create a bin in avid and select import. In the import box there should be access to the spotlight search and put .m2t which should bring up all your clips on the dr60 (you might have to tell the spotlight to only look into the “Video” partition of the DR-60) select all clips and hit import… depending on amount of material, make yourself a cup of favourit brew and wait for the import to finish (should be about 4 times faster than lengt of material)…
once done all your clips should be ready in bin and you can start editing, no more transcoding required…