Jason Finnigan
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well if there sealed they couldn’t be registered. the card is in the box I would assume or at least it is for pro tools.
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yep. I don’t plan on ingesting much besides digital anymore. maybe hdmi or something else buy you could always use a third party capture tool then import the files.
Personally I’m interested in the sony NXCAM’s because they aren’t too expensive (well they are for me, but I have no camera yet, just a mac pro). I like the because they used standard SDHC card instead of overpriced proprietary cards like the p2
also do you know if I can get a Avid MC 4 from say an auction on ebay (brand new stealed ones) and get the free upgrades or does it have to be direct from Avid. and also do academic purchases qualify for this?
if someone from avid reads this please contact me at geek181@gmail.com, I would also be very very interested in trying a beta or alpha version of mc 5 if at all possible.
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yep. I’m very interested in Avid mc 5. but I want to see a demo or alpha version of it. and it seams all avid people are away right, or at least none have email me back.
I think avid finally realize fcp is a competitor and made some changes for mc5
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yeah if it’s firewire 800 and a 72k rpm, it’s pretty much the only thing it could be. you should have him download the mc 4.0 trial and try it to see if it works as excepted
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My first question would be what bus is the external hdd connected through. and what is the speed of that hdd?
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I would suggest using a non apple codec. it may cause problems. keep in mind that even if you captured say a DV codec file with final cut it will still not play back on a pc with quicktime, or at least no easily.
there are two easy ways of doing this. and a fat32 drive will not work as Gary pointed out there is a 2GB file size limit. while the partition size is not 2GB individual files are limited.
1 – you could use bootcamp put xp on it.. connect a ntfs hardrive via firewire copy the files from the Macintosh HD over too the ntfs drive. however I think you can only use the interal mac formated drive in boot camp without third party software, didn’t check though
2 – connect the windows machine and mac with firewire 400/800 and share the drive on the mac using Samba (SMB) and access that drive from the pc and copy the files over to the NTFS drive.
should be pretty easy. though will take some time.
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What advantage (besides saying your one of the few who have a usb 3.0 i/o device) would one of these give you. I mean I know 3.0 technically can have 4.8gbps (not that your ever going to see that) over say a pcie slot (4-8) and firewire 800. because even HD uncompressed is around 1.5gbps. obvisoly it would be better than a firewire 800 solution (aja IO HD, which I don’t like anyhow since your tied to pro res). but it doesn’t have anything on a pcie card that I would think of except laptops, but I’ve never seen anyone ingest on a laptop.
It would be neat to have the ultrastudio pro on a mac just because of the audio meters. but I’m never going to have enough money for one so that is trivial
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I Think technically you can send sd singal over the HDMI, but that would require some converts.
However I am pretty sure the cannon XL1 can take input signals.
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your probably never going to see a mpeg2 hardware encoder in blackmagic cards or any other pro i/o for that matter. it’s not a copy protection issues or anything. it’s just the simple fact that the whole point of the cards are to give you uncompress sd/hd video and move away from compressed dv etc, codecs. in a professional environment you’d never want to directly import mpeg2 video to edit, and that is the point of these cards.
That is why I’m saying a hardware solution would be much better in this case. some hardware dvd recorder that makes
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well I wouldn’t put it in the gfx pci-e slot. it wouldn’t work as the gfx connects via the northbridge and the rest of them connect via the southbridge.