Re: Field Video Setup -- Newbie Questions

What I was working on in that regard was to shoot DVCpro25, feed it into a laptop and use Quicktime pro to convert it to H.264 during ingest. Then FTP the h.264 file to my base, 200 miles North, and have them re-convert it to something that would play on an FCP timeline, to then feed that into our satellite dish for an SD broadcast. I work in 15-minute package lengths, and it took only a handful of minutes for my mac pro tower to crunch that file, about ten to re-convert it. The reconvert shows a little bit of temporal artifacting when I play off my timeline, however, Apple preview (QT) looks pristine... so I'm now working out if there's a way to play that off outside of FCP, using our AJA IO. As of now, not. But there's still time to come up with some othre tricks and work-arounds. If I could just throw money at the problem, heck yes, i'd order Snapfeed in a , well, snap:-)