Re: Do I really need a capture card for editing hdv? Help!

Thank you, Douglas!

As for color correction, I'm not sure if I'll be doing a lot of that or not. I have experience with photography and editing for color in Photoshop (calibrated with Spyder Pro device), but I have no idea about hd video and what needs to be done, if anything at all. If the EX1 produces nice colors out of the box, then I don't see a lot of need for it. I do like clean but saturated nature images (I love Fuji Velvia 50 film for photography, which is a color-saturated film), and I use graduated neutral filters a lot for balancing light in the wilds, so I'm assuming I'll have some color editing required. I also don't know if I need to edit compressed or uncompressed. I read about it a lot, but I've never seen it done. I wish I could just see how all this works in person first, but I don't know of anyone who has this kind of equipment or does hd editing. I have budgeted at least $20,000 - $25,000 for just the editing gear and software (new Mac Pro, monitors, FCS2, RAID, etc.) but if I could do it on an $7,000 Mac Pro and a couple harddrives with Final Cut Studio and save $15,000, I wouldn't complain! I wonder if the guys who are doing the high-end gear with the Aja 3 cards and all that are also video pros who are working with all kinds of clients for input/output solutions, etc. This is just gonna be little 'ole me videoing and editing my own stuff. I'll do it if it takes $5 grand or $25 grand, but I just want to do it wisely.