Re: OT...New route

hey all

here are my observations about this HDV thang:

1. gosh this topic gets beaten senseless all the time. This is my experience just working with FCP. editing in hdv is really slow. the cpu has to process everything so even simpl dissolve have to be rendered etc etc
we find that working in either dvcpro50 or dvcprohd is a lot faster, and still gives us excellent picture quality

2. we use a Kona LH in conjunction with our M10U. we either output 1080 or 525 analog component to our kona, and capture at either of the 2 dvc codecs aforementioned (we shoot HDV, but we usually edit and finish SD 16x9, as no one we supply can or wants to playback HD) we control the M10u with firewire.

3, I dont know how the 1200 treats anolog component in, if it does some conversion or not, but Sony's flavor of HDV is only 1080i so you may have to knock down the frame size to 720p as well


4. we found that when cloning HDV from the camera to an m10u, we lost the timecode, so our clones had different timecode.
I do not know if that was the cameras fault, or the decks fault. I know the m25U supports TC in the hdv stream, but you might need 2 m25u machines to get TC accurate clones

hope this helps

bee eph