[Ed Dooley]

I don’t think FCp works with the JVC, you have to use Lumiere. Do a search in the HDV forum,
I seem to remember some workarounds, and I think you need 5.0.3
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

That’s true if you’re only shooting in a studio. I’d rather lug around a few P2 cards in the field,
rather than a very expensive, very heavy deck and a very long extension cord. 🙂
Capturing to the upcoming Firestore or Cineporter, or the P2 card/laptop route seems better all around,
especially if you don’t already own a DVCPro HD deck. With P2 you’ll never need one. For mastering to HD you can rent one
occasionally.
Ed

[Bear Baker] “It seems then that it would be a decent enough camera for 5k shooting to tape and later using P2 when the price/capacity improves.”

[Ed Dooley]

I didn’t get that from his post. It sounds like he’s formatting it Extended, but it’s
showing up Journaled. I don’t read where he tried manually disabling it in Disk Utility,
but hey, what do I know? 🙂
Ed

[David Roth Weiss] “He evidently can’t do that Ed.”

[Ed Dooley]

Go to the HDV Forum, you might get more answers.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

You can disable Journaling right in the included Disk Utility. Select the disk and go to File/Disable Journaling
Ed

[David Roth Weiss] “Get Cocktail, a freeware utility, and turn journaling off after formating.”

[Ed Dooley]

Still on 10.3.9 here, but to add to Shane’s general FW points, I’ve found that when things do
go wrong, drive won’t mount, etc. it sometimes *will* mount on another computer, then will
when reattached to the other. I have some FW case that are USB/FW combos. If they wount
mount with FW, the USB generally still will, I then unmount it from the USB, shut it off,
and again I can then reattach under FW and will mount.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Duplicate the layer and use a matte to change only the specific area, and use tracking if it needs to move.
It’s all in the on-line help and the manual. Matte and tracking are the topics.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Oops, sorry, I just re-read your post. I didn’t notice that you already mentioned why you’re not using the plug-in.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I don’t know about creating flvs directly in Flash Professional, but the program comes with an FLV Export plug-in that
you install into QT. You can export an FLV directly out of FCP, and the window that pops up when you select that option
*does* include a de-interlacing option. The plug-in is included with Flash 8 Pro.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

And I wouldn’t get to watch The Sopranos at 30,000 feet with an iMac. 🙂
Ed

[debe] “[MitchJi] “Another option that would probably cost less and give you much more screen real estate would be to get the 15″ and carry a second LCD for a dual screen configuration. In a wheeled case that would not be too hard. ”

Except that my wheeled case is used to also carry my DSR-45 when I travel. I usually do not have the room to pack another monitor. However, it is an interesting idea.

I still stand by my purchase. For the way I like to work, my 17″ been nothing but a pleasure to use. The fewer things I have to lug around, the better.

I know of a guy who takes his iMac G5 on the road. He seems to have much more of a hassle than I do with my laptop, even though he has the wireless keyboard and mouse. This is just my perception. He may think the same thing about my setup.”