[MacDV] Re: Sony HVR-V1U - a good choice for a mac editing station with Final Cut?

[sb]

You do not use USB with Final Cut, unless you have a chip or drive- 
based camera (AVDHD)

You use the firewire cable for capturing the HDV in Final Cut Pro.
There is a small conversion to QT, but your files are native HDV.
You use the Sony 1080i HDV preset.

If you have Final Cut Express, during the capture process the media is  
transcoded to Apple Intermediate Codec.

The camera (and it's slightly smaller sibling the A1U) is very popular  
with the pro-sumer crowd. Lots of pros buying them for their home  
movies and 2nd camera/backups to their full size cameras.

  regards,
  sb



On Apr 4, 2008, at 10:31 AM, James Asherman wrote:

> I don't know about DM tapes,( special DV tapes for HD ?) but I  
> looked up the camera. It looks interesting. 3 Cmos Sony. HDV.
> It appears to take pretty regular DV cassettes. But likes DVCAM  
> cassettes better.
> Since it has the firewire It should work for straight capture with  
> DV and DVCAM.
> But when using the HDV format it probably needs to do a data  
> transfer from the USB. (Log and Transfer in FCP)
> some specs:
> Tape Format DVCAM Small Cassette
> HDMI Output: HDMI Connector
> On Apr 4, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Shirley Kehr wrote:
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