[Ming Saadprai]

Thanks Shane and David! Correct me if I’m wrong, but it makes no difference if I recapture the footage at 8-bit uncompressed or just change the seqeunce settings to 8-bit uncompressed and render?

[Ming Saadprai]

You can check out Blackmagic’s Intensity. It allows you to connect a HDTV to your Mac via a HDMI cable. It’s quite low cost as well.

[Ming Saadprai]

Thanks!

[Ming Saadprai]

Thanks Wayne. Does that mean I won’t have to render with every edit? It’d be as fuss-free as editing HDV in DVCPROHD?

[Ming Saadprai]

Thanks Tom for the quick reply! This is the codec that is based around the GOP structure and you have to render with every edit isn’t it?

[Ming Saadprai]

I noticed that Lumiere HD allows JVC footage to be captured into FCP but it doesn’t seem to support 1080i. Did I get this wrong?

[Ming Saadprai]

Sorry guys, an updated profile.

4 X 2.5Ghz PowerPC G5
2 GB DDR2 SDRAM
FCP Studio
Xserve RAID 2TB RAID 5
Blackmagic Extreme
DELL 2405FPW

[Ming Saadprai]

I see what you’re getting at, but the cost of buying a little camera to use as a deck far outweighs buying a deck as a deck. Do you guys think there’s any difference in quality in capturing from a camera as compared to the deck?

[Ming Saadprai]

For what it’s worth, Australia is PAL and the last time I duped a whole bunch of DVDs, the guys there told me Code 5 is the most stable and compatible of all the codes. You can set those in DVD studio pro. The last time I used DV footage and exported them as a DVCpro50 codec to be recompressed in DVD studio at a bitrate of between 7.7kbps and 8.0kbps to make the master copy and it worked beautifully. See if this helps!

[Ming Saadprai]

Did you guys mean frames dropping within the video in the 2405 itself? or on the external monitor?