Shooting straight to MacBook Pro.

[Jamie McIntyre]

Hi there,

I'm new here - just signed up. I have recently purchased a HVX200 and I'm still working on saving up for some P2 cards!

For the time being I'm laying the footage down to a MacBook Pro.

Would someone mind taking the time to give me a brief run down on the best way to do this? My MBP has a Firewire 800 port but I'm not sure if you can go 6 pin to 9 pin? SO what cable would I need?

I also have Final Cut Pro 6.

What are the best settings/best quality to record to my MBP via final cut?

I don't want to fill my hard drive up in 5 minutes you see.

Cheers,

Jamie McIntyre

[drewmaw]

I'm also curious about this, I just bought a MBP too, but it seems sketchy, dropping frames-wise. Recording to an external HDD with two Firewire slots is what I've seen. Setup looks like: (firewire connecting everything) Camera to external HDD, ext. HDD to MBP.

I'm curious to see what others say though...

[David Saraceno]

You match your Final Cut Pro settings for DVCProHD to your cam settings and set the device to noncontrollable. Any setting but pNative in the cam.

I do not recommend recording to your boot drive at all. You will OS, FCP, and media all competing at the same time.

I also recommend a eSATA or FW800 ExpressCard to create access to an external media/scratch drive. You do not want the cam and the HDD on the same firewire bus.

[Richard J. Johnson]

well put David.