Which Mac config for pro HD video editing?

[gvdv]

Everything I've read, including Apple's own page, reviews of the Canon, etc., strongly suggest it'll work.

Do you have an Apple Store nearby? Their Mac Pros have FCPHD installed - you could bring your camera in and find out!

Where did you see that FCPHD is installed with the Mac Pro? I'm another PC- -Person-Going-Mac-Pro and I was just on the homepage looking at Mac Pro specifications and included software, and didn't see anything about this.

I'd love to have FCPHD included.

GVDV

 

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April 16 NAB Likely Dual Clovertown Mac Pro Announcement Worst Case

Where did you see that FCPHD is installed with the Mac Pro? I'm another PC- -Person-Going-Mac-Pro and I was just on the homepage looking at Mac Pro specifications and included software, and didn't see anything about this.

I'd love to have FCPHD included.

GVDV

It's not. But there is an opportunity to get Final Cut Express HD for $99 after a $200 rebate when you buy a Mac before Tuesday March 27 when they will announce new models.

Buying a Mac Pro right now is not smart. 8 cores ship in the next 60 days in a whole new motherboard even for the 4 cores. You all should wait until April 16th NAB announcements.

 

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Go With HDV All The Way. SD Is History.

I used to work for a pretty big wedding production company in the bay area and we switched to HDV and while HDV is insanely better than DV for event capturing (i.e. weddings, funerals, birthdays, bat mitzvahs, the like) I would HIGHLY discourage you from buying an HDV camera for capturing what you had mentioned.

first off, its 1080i, which for fast moving objects would give you sub optimal quality. secodnly its 30fps, so slowing that footage down isn't going to yeild the best results. skiing and snowbaording are very fast motion sports, typically with the camera moves being even faster (halfpipe, you whip that camera around everywhere) so for HDVs poor GOP structure, you are going to get macro blocking when you have fast moving pans, combined with complicated scenary (trees are the worst) since you will be filming in the forest, I think you will def notice the artifacting in the footage.

New Sony HDR-HC7 - Link To Our New Thread You Should Read - lets you shoot 240 frames in 3 seconds that will playback in slo-mo in 12 seconds. This should overcome the artifacting problems Proto Media worries about.

If I were you, I would go with what thewholetruth mentioned, and look into the PANO. thats what I would get if I had the money. It shoots to solid state cards (good for action sports, cause you won't get drop outs like you do with tape. Secondly, it uses DVC Pro, which I believe is around 100 mb/sec (dont quote me) opposed to DV & HDVs 25 mb/sec data rate. The pano also haas the option of recording at 60fps, so if you want to get that sick slow mo shot of a switch cork 9, you can shoot in that mode and then slow WAY down without notcieably loss of quality. I live in tahoe, and ride northstar everyday, and I am seeing more and more panos and less and less HDV. I rode up the lift with a guy who shoots for think thank (dont know if youve heard of it) but he was tellin me that this is probably the last year that most of the snowboard production companies are going to be shooting film, and that most of them are using the panos now.

Mawk Dawg productions threw down for FOUR of those R.E.D. cameras (80k, no biggie) so that shows you the importance of resolution in action sports, I think your best bet would be with the pano. check it out, I think there is a new one coming out soon, or it might already be out.

Hope this helps you out, keep in touch you sound like your in the same boat that I am. anyways, peace out and good luck.

Good advice. Just don't go SD. For me, I don't like cameras the size of the Panasonic HVX200 DVCPro HD nor RED. Just way too big for my taste. Panasonic calls their's "Little". I guess I'm only with "Tiny".