Sean Oneil
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[santellavision] “Sonnet’s card isn’t compatible yet.”
Uhhh, yes it is. It says they’re SATA II on the website. Even if it wasn’t, it would still work with any SATA drive. All SATA products are forwards and backwards compatible to my knowledge.
Sean
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[Luke Maslen] “I would suggest capturing both the audio and video via HDMI as Intensity supports that and I believe the HDMI output of your deck does too.”
Thanks. I actually emailed Sony and they said it doesn’t. But they could be wrong. I’m buying an Intensity regardless.
Sean
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Another question. I have a Sony M25U HDV VTR which has HDMI output. But it has no 9-pin for deck control and TC. Can I use Firewire for deck control but HDMI for video capture?
I’ll take that question one step further. Is it possible to capture video over HDMI, but capture audio over HDV firewire and have them be in sync? The HDV deck doesn’t have any digital audio outputs.
And that makes me think of another question. Does the Intensity capture audio that is embedded on an HDMI stream?
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Will intensity capture 1080p? Can it read signals that are not HDTV signals. Such as VESA signals from another computer’s DVI output?
I hope you guys realize that this thing is going to sell through the roof. Not so much from us in the niche broadcast profession, but from consumer home theater enthusiasts. This kind of product, along with Blu-ray and HD-DVD coming out, will motivate a certain element to “bypass” HDCP (by no fault of yours of course) and thus the demand for Intensity will be enourmous.
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Why not just capture everything as NTSC DV for offline editing? Problem solved. Then when you go to master it, just re-capture everything natively over FW. Bring HDV in as HDV, DVCProHD as DVCProHD. If they’re the same framrate and frame size, this won’t be a problem. Then render it on an Uncompressed timeline. Export a self-contained Uncompressed QT as your “pre-master” and use this file as your source footage for color-correction.
Lossless workflow, and you get the superior RT performence of doing your creative work in NTSC DV.
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I disagree with these guys. You can totally do that as long as you split it into multiple files using Stuffit or something similar. This will prevent errors as well as check for them on the other end. Plus if something goes wrong or there is an error, you don’t have to start over from scratch. And depending on your connection speed it may not take that long at all. Just rough guessing, it shouldn’t take more than 12 hours with a 1mbps upstream. So you could let it rip overnight.
Obviously FedEx would be a more preferred solution 9 times out of 10, but I’m sure you’re smart enough to have thought that already. I get it. With the weekend coming up, FedEx might not be the best solution. Just make sure the FTP server can hold that much space, and make sure the client knows what he or she is getting into and has the software to unarchive it.
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The problem with that is that DV is a very lossy video codec, and by going into After Effects and then back to FCP, you will lose a generation and it will take a major hit and be noticable in some scenes. So I would try to make it work in FCP.
You should post your system specs.
Sean
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FYI, the Sony HDV equipment actually WILL playback JVC 720p30 tapes. It just won’t output it via Firewire, so you’re stuck capturing with analog component.
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Not that I disagree with any of it, but boy, what a fluff piece!
Sean