[John Alder]

I’m in Singapore right now and no rental company recommended to me has an EX1, so we ended up shooting with 3 Sony Z1 cameras.

[John Alder]

Hi Folks, as my colleague mentioned, cost is really tight, the IOHD will fill the needs when out in the field and in the post suite, I don’t have to buy another hardware card.

When outdoors,if I cant use the IOHD without going thru the IOHD SD-HDI, then I will use a few other PC notebooks available to copy the Bpav folders into the hdds. No need for the IOHD.

The bottle neck would then be getting the Ex data into the MacPro and encoding into the hardware supported codec whichever ‘card’ I buy and my director doing thru the footage.. I will speak to the vendor again.

Thanks.

[John Alder]

Thanks Guys, I really appreciate your replies. The hardware vendor in my country didn’t tell me these things you guys said.

Hi Michael, I finally understand you cause initially I was led by my vendor to think that the IOHD would use its ‘muscle’ to encode the data in the sxs card.

So in order to encode the contents of the ‘BPAV folder’ in the hdd to ProRes, the Intel CPU in the MacBook Pro alone does the job? The only reason why I use ProRes is the quality and realtime editing using the IOHD on the road with MacBook Pro or with a MacPro when I’m back in the office..

This TV series has been commissioned by a TV station.The reason I selected the IOHD is the realtime factor when doing an edit with the TV station person sitting in. Without any ‘hardware processing’ video cards I guess it wouldnt be professional to have the MacPro stutter and dropping frames along the way when the layers piles up with overlays, filters and such. If HD editing on the MacPro is smooth all the way without any cards like the Kona for example, why do they even sell them? Thanks for any thoughts to this.

Hi Don, that’s a great idea! That’s what I had plan to do with the folders setup in the hdd and getting a runner to go round collecting cards every 30 mins. I wish I could afford two 16gb cards per cam, where I am nobody rents sxs cards..

I can only afford one MBP unless I borrow one from a friend. However in most situations, it will only be 2 cams. The 4 cams are only use during a game match and the filming duration will not go beyond 30mins. So I can take my time to back those data up when the match ends.

I have even thought of setting up a 4 channel HD-SDI video mixer with cables connected to all the cams and have the director do a live edit on the spot and recording just one final stream into the IOHD, but the cost is too high to setup because no one I know has a HD video mixer for rent and also the cables signal loss consideration.

Thanks,
James

[John Alder]

Hi Michael, thanks for the reply. I would have constant power from a socket somewhere, I didn’t mean out in the jungle, just out on a sports field.

1. One method I can thing of: I would have the sxs usb drive, esata drives connected to the expresscard slot and the AJA IOHD connected by firewire on the MBP. Would this be feasible?

2. I understand the AJA doesn’t capture the footage, but does it help to encode the sxs card data to ProRes format and save into the esata drive?

3. From what you said, the safest method would be to copy the ‘BPAV folder’ into the external hdd and keep on doing that thru out the day until I’m back in the post suite. From there on, I will encode the footage into ProRes format.

4. If I edit on EX native format, would I get ‘real time’ performance on the Macbook Pro and also the MacPro? If so, why would I even need the IOHD? 🙂

Thanks.

[John Alder]

Thanks for the replies guys. Sorry if I sound a little unsure of the outcome as one reply was negative and another positive on the rolling shutter issue for sports filming.. 🙂

Craig, was it obvious to the eye when played back real time? (for the ‘background vertical lines “bend” when the camera tracks a running player.’)

Tom, high speed capture will certainly be a plus for the show. I am not too concern about the broadcast station’s standard as it is out of my control.. not to mention that I am delivering this project in SD. 🙂