Larry Cohen
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Patrick, that is EXACTLY what I was looking for. The program is called HD Monitor Pro. I works perfectly. Simple, easy and lets me se on my MacBook Pro exactly what the camera is shooting. You are correct – you can record it as a .mov directly.
It’s funny how little there is written about this program. If you search the FCPro chat boards at Apple, it’s not to be found at all? Interestingly, it won’t work in the “pn” mode – only “P”! Where you’re using twice the data rate. (On the HVX200). We don’t use “P” – never quite understood why anyone would – it’s not a better image, but used twice the data rate?
Anyway, thanks very much for the answer. You are exactly correct.
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Yes, but it really IS NICE to just have a MacBook Pro with no peripherals or cables dangling . . . or hanging around!
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Thank you, Michael. Good point – things work well for us, but we don’t do really “heavy” extensive complex types of editing. Dissolves, minor graphics, slow motion – a few small effects – nothing major. Probably why things work so well. But thanks for your thoughts.
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Thank you, Noah.
I think you’ve just put this to bed for me. I just thought it was a great ‘fantasy’ to use the stunning screen on my MacBook Pro as a monitor’ to what the camera is “seeing”!But I’m dreaming . . . and you’ve just confirmed that! I’ll probably just get an external one.
Thank you for the confirmation!
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Jeremy, thank you. I was kinda thinking EXACTLY what you just said!
If I wanted to tinker with it (to see how good? it would do! 🙂
what would the basic workflow be?? Oh, thanks for the pN warning – that IS what we shoot – but I’n thinking, just to maybe check color temperatures of mixing light sources – maybe we can get away with this – I would change the camera settings to 720 P just to see what things look like — then change it back.
I mean, we firewire out of the camera to an 800 firewire in to the MackBook Pro – we have that adapter – do I want to be in the capture mode of FCPro??? Or . . . I’m not exactly sure how I’d do it??
I really appreciate your input. Lastly, maybe I won’t like this approach anyway and will buy an external ‘portable’ monitor. Any you’d recommend ?
Thank you very much for your time,
Larry