Long duration captuing with HDV
by cbolton
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Jul 8, 2005 at 3:02:24 am
>>>Long duration captuing with HDV / up to 4 hours at a time<<<
Hi all
I have a question regarding long capturing of Sony HDV footage into an apple.
We are shooting a Reel time 4 hour long single shot.
We did some test today with an Apple G5 2Ghz with 2GB of RAM, 125MB graphics card and a 400GB internal hard drive (7200RPM).
We where using I Movie since that is all we have at the moment. I am under the understanding that I Movie uses an intermediate codec for HDV is this true?
Any ways we started to capture footage live from the camera (Not from tape).
We where fine up to 1 and a half minutes then it said
Re: Long duration captuing with HDV by Ken Hodson on Jul 8, 2005 at 5:33:18 am
So you are capturing uncompressed via componet analog output? That is what I got from your explanation and if so your HDD system is not able to keep up. Why are you using such low level software to acomplish this? If you are just copying the stream and not going uncompressed, I am unsure of the Mac side of things. PC wise you can capture the stream using VLC for free or try the version of HDV RACK which works like a dream (*beta tester here*) and have no worries.
Does VLC work on Mac?
Re: Long duration captuing with HDV by cbolton on Jul 8, 2005 at 7:38:32 am
Hi Ken
Thanks for the Repley
We are actually transfering the footage via Fire Wire using the HDV codec. Sorry for the confusion. We dont have access to HD component or HDSDI capture cards. Just good old Fire Wire 400.
Any ideas would be great cheers
Chris
Re: Long duration captuing with HDV by cbolton on Jul 8, 2005 at 7:39:38 am
Hi Ken
Thanks for the Repley
We are actually transfering the footage via Fire Wire using the HDV codec. Sorry for the confusion. We dont have access to HD component or HDSDI capture cards. Just good old Fire Wire 400.
Any ideas would be great cheers
Chris
