[Ed Dooley]

The best way to do it is read the manual first.
If you’re concerned about something being OK for
broadcast, but haven’t even looked up the very basic
information, there’s not much hope for you. 🙂
Use the Color Corrector and/or Broadcast Safe filters.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

You are missing something here Todd. 🙂
He said he was only using his internal drive for finished projects, as storage, not for media to edit from. That said, he certainly can move those finished QTs to another drive to make room. He also said his system wasn’t running very well with only 2GB available, hence the post about his search for more drive space.
Ed

[todd reid] “i may be missing something here, why are you using your internal harddrive for video projects?

With all the processor power needed just to run the os and other programs, you may want to think about migrating everything to an external drive.
In my business, I keep the autosave vault on the internal and NOTHING else (as far as FCP projects). This way in case a drive ever goes down, I can recreate a project with the autosave, and if my internal drive goes down, I have my project and media files externally. Finished projects (quicktimes and such) may be ok on your internal, but always keep a backup externally too.

Whatever you choose, bus-powered, or not, I think you might have a smoother ride overall if you keep all your most of your video elsewhere. Harddrives are relatively inexpensive, I have 4 Lacie’s 500GB, daisy chained and a SATA RAID (1TB) hooked up to my MacBook Pro, with 2.5 TB on order.

Does your workflow ever slow you down (drop frames, slow response time, sluggishness)?

Just some alternative thoughts, hope it helps. “

[Ed Dooley]

Wiebetech makes bus-powered drives, which are reliable (I think they even make a 3.5″ bus powered drive case). https://www.wiebetech.com/
But you can also replace your 80 gig internal with a 250gig drive, if
all you’re looking for is more internal storage.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

B&H offer it for free, or should I say JVC does, but B&H has the rebate button right under the price of the 110 models.
It’s here:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?shs=jvc+hd-110&ci=0&sb=ps&pn=1&sq=desc&InitialSearch=yes&O=RootPage.jsp&A=search&Q=*&bhs=t
Ed

[corey o’quinn] “was the battery system free? because B&H offers one for extra? If so where do I get it? also is it normal for a pro camera to only have manual focus? “

[Ed Dooley]

The 110 also shoots 24P. I wouldn’t call 30P hyper-reality, I save that description for interlaced video. Progressive video looks more film-like, although 24P looks even more so.
As for the battery, the HD-110 includes an Anton Bauer Trimpac battery system (you have to send away for it though). I got a free one when I bought my 110 last spring (it’s for sale, cheap, BTW, since I use an IDX system!) and it’s still offered through March 31st.
Ed

[Justin Ferar] “The HD200 gives you the option of shooting 720p60 which is more suited for ENG and sports. The 110 is limited to 720p30 which is fine and looks great. You’ll just notice the slower frame rate during scenes with lots of motion.

In a nutshell, 720p is hyper reality.

That said, both cameras handle regular DV equally.

The only other thing I would mention is that the HD200 comes pre-configured with Anton Bauer battery system, which is huge for those needing long run times such as doc film makers and run and gunners. The 110 uses a consumer battery system.

If you intend to primarily work in SD then then the 110 is wonderful and has component out for live studio integration in HD or SD. Now if you in fact had three functioning HD200’s you would probably have the highest end student program in the country, including universities! “

[Ed Dooley]

Don’t know about IOHD latency, but since no one else answered that part, I’ll throw this in. The IO family originally had a 7 frame latency, then new software brought it down to 4-5 frames. I believe I read that the IOHD still has latency but it’s down to (again, I think, but not sure) 2 frames. There is an offset selection in the IOHD manual, but I didn’t see anything written about selecting a frame number (and the image shows it set to 0). I think it’s a fact of life with FW, although it’s gotten almost to zero. I’m surprised Matrox hasn’t reduced it in the MXO (might be worth a deeper look).
Ed

[CATWALK] “What about latency between canvas window and AJA io output?
I’ve found Matrox MXO latency just slowing down to much my editing flow if I see my videos delayed by let’s say half a second in fast regular scrub-joggle situations (of course during normal playback I get the right sync (“BTW almost in sync because MXO has 1frame delay)).”

[Ed Dooley]

I agree, although it would be a nice bonus for owning an IO.
Ed

[JeremyG] “FCP6 supports real time dv downconverts from anything. I doubt it is full resolution and probably some sort of rt preview. If you are going to be working in HD, it’d be best to get an HD capable video card to work with. In my opinion anyway.

Yours in sync,
Bucko”

[Ed Dooley]

Hold on there bucko (it’s so difficult finding the right time to call someone that).
Check this out:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/150/857018
As a proud owner of a couple of Io products, I can confirm this. I still have 5.something on my PowerBook and it only updates to the current frame when you stop, but FCP 6 keeps it moving along as the timeline plays (as in SD downconvert from an HDV timeline).
Ed

[JeremyG] “No, the ioLD is an SD only device and does not handle HDV material.

Perhaps it’s time to upgrade to HD?”

[Ed Dooley]

Well, the main thing is that AVI is not a supported DVD format. DVDs use MPEG-2 compression. The best thing, if possible, is to start with the original edited video and compress directly to MPEG-2 to author from. If you can’t do that, you will have to re-compress it.
DVD players have a sweet spot as to how high a data rate they’ll be able to play withing skipping/dropping frames. Although the official spec for maximum data rate (I think) is 9.8Mbps (or close to that), a lot of players will skip long before that rate. There are a lot of recommendations about the right rate, but somewhere in the 5 to 7Mbps is good. If you max out at 7Mbps for your already compressed file, it will give you the best you can get from what you started with.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Not in front of either of my systems right now, and I only capture Beta to UC or DV50 (which I would strongly suggest over DV anyway). All IO systems (including IOLA and LD) come with Beta to DV setups. You can delete easy setups from your system if you know you won’t use them, which might have been the case here, but in any case you should be able to create an easy setup. What have you done to create one, have you read through the manual to see if you’re following the steps (which are very simple, use the Create Easy Setup button)?
Ed

[cmtv crew] “I am having trouble capturing my Beta SP footage to Final Cut DV codec using my LA. On our IO there is an easy setup for Betacam 8-bit to DV, but on the system using the LA I do not have the option. Any suggestions. I have tried custom setup with no luck either. Thanks”