[MacDV] Re: Using a G4 laptop & directly capturing video

[Jim Asherman]

On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 08:56  PM, Rod Duncan wrote:

> Maybe I am not understanding the question.
>
> Why would you want to capture directly into the portable? What camera 
> setup are you using? Normal procedure is to record to digital tape such 
> as miniDV and then capture to the computer into a digital editing 
> program such as FCP, iMovie or FCExpress. Nice to have the original 
> footage on tape as a backup, too.
>
> Rod

I can certainly understand why he would want to do it. Saves a step 
.Organizes the whole thing.
  But you,know they have these new thingy's that are little hard drive 
units that you record to and then they plug into the computer as a 
drive, you might look into one of those,
Jim

>
>> I am looking the possibility of buying a g4 1ghz laptop and adding 1g 
>> of
>> ram.. What I am interested in doing is directly capturing the the 
>> footage I
>> shoot into FCP 3.. Any one have experience doing this with a laptop?
>>
>> Joe Camporesi
>>
>
>
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