[Paul Escandon]

I’ve worked in DVCPROHD 1080i60 on MacBook’s before and they handled it pretty decently. I’ve never captured.. but if you have the machines I’d say give it a try. It should probably work without any problems if you’re over firewire. But I haven’t done it.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Yeah I’m pretty sure the Blackmagic won’t display fields in the same way that the MXO does. And also from an engineering standpoint, I think the MXO is the only device currently on the market that’s going to give you broadcast accurate display from a DVI port.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

There’s no question that the quality suffers – but depending on the project the rough look might actually work. I used YouTube videos to composite on screen multiple news clips all happening at once and overlapping each other – and even though the quality started out low I added some effects and further degraded the images and it ended up looking great.

So it really just depends on how they intend to be used.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I’m not too sure if you can open the image sequence and save without a recompression – I know you sure you can save to the format of your choice. I think it’s something worth trying at least to see if it works.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Would turning the image sequence into a quicktime work for what you’re trying to do?

I don’t have a lot of experiences with image sequences in FCP but I have used Quicktime Pro to open an image sequence and save it as a Quicktime file. You can do this from Quicktime Pro with the Open > Image Sequence command.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Yeah – the cinema display when hooked up to a Matrox MXO WILL indeed display fields – I know because I use this at home. It looks just like it does on my $5,000 Sony Broadcast HD monitor at the office… you can see the field flicker when parking on an interlaced frame and everything.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

There are sites out there that will download and convert the YouTube videos for you. I actually did this for a trailer to a documentary that I was cutting…

Check out https://www.vixy.net – it allows you to type in a YouTube URL and it will convert it to quicktime or different formats for you. You can then work with this in Final Cut.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Yeah the mighty mouse should function without any problems with your tablet plugged in. I use the Intuos3 from WACOM and am constantly going back and forth between tablet and mouse. I don’t think ANYBODY actually uses the mouse that comes with the tablets… those are generally of low quality in my opinion.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Shane Ross did a great review here on the COW about the MXO and the Cinema Display. I am currently a Matrox MXO user and have it hooked up to a 23″ Apple Cinema Display. The results are great – this setup gives you a broadcast accurately display and the price is right.

One thing to note though – it won’t work with an Apple 30″ Cinema display. You need 23″. The box is designed for the 23″ and won’t drive the 30″ because of it’s need to have a dual link DVI port.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Does anyone know if when you do this method you no longer have Quicktime Pro? Or is Quicktime Pro reloaded back on too?

Just curious.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University