[MacDV] HD file format advice

[Phelim Lunny]

'Am not sure about your problem there.... but you say you are moving over to a new iMac. 



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.



PJ



-----Original Message-----
From: CM McDonald <cmmcdonald at mac.com>
To: A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh. <MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 1:38 pm
Subject: [MacDV] HD file format advice







Hi guys, 
 

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. 
 

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. 
 

I believe the camera captures to MPEG 1 when recording HD on tape (I had thought that format was dead!) 
 

I will be moving over to FCE 4 on an Intel iMac very soon, but for now: 
 

PowerBook G4 1.67 with 1.5 GB RAM running 1OS 0.4.11 

Quicktime pro with MPEG-2 plug in 

iMovie 2,3,4 HD5 and 6 (really!) but not iMovie 08 
 

Any comments? 
 

Colin McDonald 

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