[MacDV] Re: Mobile Setup

[Richard Brown]

With a Titanium Powerbook, an ADS Pyro Firewire case (new version) with 
the Oxford chipset, you have  a great full DV resolution field editing 
solution. I posted a big show with this combo (actually two ADS cases 
with 120GB drives in each, daisy chained) in the field, went to mass 
VHS replication, and now, DVD with the show which is drawing raves in 
its market segment. Did not notice any problems connecting to a PD150 
for I/O, using the PD150 for video out to a monitor for color 
correction, etc. The edit was flawless in FCP 3. Not a single hiccup in 
about 2 solid weeks of LONG days. We had previously trimmed from about 
27 hours of footage, and used FCP to lay the current edit onto the 
Firewire drive, leaving handles on the ends of the edits, then dumped 
all the needed additional footage onto both the first and second 
Firewire drives. In the field, we transferred the last stuff... all 
without a hitch.

I agree completely: keep video off the internal HD on a notebook. 
Dedicate an external Firewire drive(s) completely to video... not 
really using it (them) for anything else. It also helps to not skimp on 
the drives themselves. To that end... we're waiting for the Maxtor 
Maxline drives around here to give them a good test.

Richard Brown
www.go2rba.com

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 12:19 AM, Jim Zabilla wrote:

> I agree with Daniel.  Try to capture on the external and partiton to be
> tidy.  The internal drive is just not speedy enough and it's hard for 
> the
> drive to be in more than one place at once. (crashing)
>
> If you must use just the one drive I would capture as clips and not as 
> one
> big piece of dv.
>
> Although I have not done it the previous note about OfflineRt is right 
> on
> but I would still keep it off the internal.
>
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> Jim
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>> From: Daniel Beck <danielbeck at mac.com>
>> Reply-To: "Macintosh Digital Video 
>> List"<MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 05:09:09 +0900
>> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: [MacDV] Re: Mobile Setup
>>
>>
>> On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 10:46 PM, Gowyn Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>> I do this on a regular basis.  Yes you can capture strait to the
>>> external
>>> but not very well, dropped frames.
>>>
>>> Personally what I do and mind you I'm working with larger projects is
>>> capture to the internal.  Transfer to the external and leave it at
>>> home.
>>> Start the project but work in OffineRT, (saves space big time.)  When
>>> the
>>> project is done just reconnect in full res.
>>
>> Hmmn, it depends, I think. If you're talking about a second internal
>> drive, then you should be fine. But, from what I've read from Michael
>> Rubin and others is that you should avoid capturing to the same disk
>> (or at least the same partition) as the system disk. I haven't had
>> trouble capturing to my external (OWC's Mercury Elite 120GB HD) when
>> I've used both FireWire ports on my Pismo. I have had difficulty when
>> daisy chaining from the drive to my camera however.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> **************************
>> Daniel Beck
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>> http://homepage.mac.com/danielbeck/
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>>
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