[MacDV] Re: Lack of Firewire on HDR-SR1

[Ted Langdell]

Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA
Main:  	(530) 741-1212

Wow... activity is picking up on the list.


On Sep 23, 2006, at 9:53 PM,  
macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> After reading the online review, it looks like there is no way of
> getting the data from the HDR-SR1 to a Mac for editing. A comment by a
> reader explored this. The article mentions support by Adobe, Ulead and
> some other PC editors, nothing about Apple. If this is correct, it's of
> no value to me.
>
> Frank Fitzpatrick
> ffitzpatrick at cox.net


Re: No Firewire...  may not be as big a problem as it's being made out  
to be in this thread.

The camcorder has a USB 2.0 port which is almost as fast at  
transferring data as Firewire 400.

Since you'd be simply transferring data files off the camcorder onto  
your hard drive from another hard drive prior to importing into Final  
Cut or something else, I don't see a big problem.

Since it's not shipping for another month according to the Sony  
website, nobody can really say how it will work on a Mac.

Might just work like many other storage media:  Connect cable to  
device... connect other end of cable to Mac... watch it appear on  
Desktop.  Drag files or folders to wherever you want on your Mac.   
Import into your editing software.

Quicktime supports H264 encoding. I'd think one issue that we'll have  
to wait on is whether there's Apple, Sony or third-party support for  
reading the wrapper Sony uses for files written to the hard drive.   
There may be some other wrinkles awaiting resolution, ala native HDV  
editing, which FCP supports.

Then, there's the HDMI port.  There are cards out or on the way that  
will enable capturing data sent out the HDMI port:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=75102

For reference... check these links.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/faq.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD


HDRSR1 Specifications from the Sony site:
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/ 
SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start; 
sid=kspfUbHM2llf4fTas25VWv7DF3YE7gwxjpU=? 
CategoryName=dcc_DICamcorders_HardDiskHandycamCamcorders&ProductSKU=HDRS 
R1&TabName=specs&var2=


Ted.