'Am not sure about your problem there.... but you say you are moving over to a new iMac.
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<div>Just to note: you may be aware that IF you are using your PCMCIA bus in your present DV setup, you may be losing a bus by going to the iMac and, for instance, you may not want a camera and a firewire drive on the same (FW) bus.<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: CM McDonald <cmmcdonald@mac.com><br>
To: A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh. <MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com><br>
Sent: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 1:38 pm<br>
Subject: [MacDV] HD file format advice<br>
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Hi guys, <br>
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Having at long last been able to invest in some new gear, I now have a Canon XH-A1 and various accessories including a FireStore FS-4 Pro. For now I'm sticking to SD DV at 4:3 as that's what is appropriate for the final product people seem to want at the moment. I hope I am "future-proofing" myself by being able to do 16:9 SD and HD as well. <br>
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I am not quite sure what's best to do when HD acquisition is required. The Firestore will change file formats captured on the fly, but when I tried telling it to save to Quicktime HD (Apple intermediate file format) I couldn't read it properly and it gave me a 2 minute 300+ MB black screen movie. The audio was OK. <br>
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I believe the camera captures to MPEG 1 when recording HD on tape (I had thought that format was dead!) <br>
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I will be moving over to FCE 4 on an Intel iMac very soon, but for now: <br>
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PowerBook G4 1.67 with 1.5 GB RAM running 1OS 0.4.11 <br>
Quicktime pro with MPEG-2 plug in <br>
iMovie 2,3,4 HD5 and 6 (really!) but not iMovie 08 <br>
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Any comments? <br>
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Colin McDonald <br>
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