[MacDV] HD file format advice

[CM McDonald]

Phelim,

Thanks for that. I know that the iMacs are a bit limited on buses  
(the 800 and 400 FW share the same bus). My problem is getting a  
compatible HD file format from the Canon XH-A1 into a Mac so that it  
can be recognised and edited. I am not using a PCMCIA bus card in my  
PowerBook at present and tend to use only one FW device at at time on  
my PowerBook.


On 24 Nov 2007, at 22:44, Phelim Lunny wrote:

> '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.
>
> 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
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