To Broadcast from Final Cut Pro on Laptop?

[Nik Manning]

Okay I am going to sell my g5 because I hate working in one room. I am getting a macbook/macbok pro. I have a couple questions. Has anyone went to broadcast from a laptop setup and what is there workflow. For example do I export umcompressed the finished product to a external hardrive? 3 examples of what I might be doing

1. Motion Graphics-
Creating a 30 second motion graphics commercial that has a million different elements in it. Made with Apple Motion and Adobe After Effects. Final Format is NTSC SD for broadcast. How woud you get there? Please give details.

2. Feature Length Movie- 90 minute low budget film probably shot on hdv/dvcprohd/dv. How much storage would one need? If you have done this before what is your setup? Please give details.

3. Music Videos- Short 3-5 minute videos. What was your workflow to get your video broadcasted? Please give details.

Anyone using Sheer Codec? Thanks

[David Saraceno]

One observation. The MacBook has one FW bus and no way to add either a second or eSATA drive.

Not the best way to go

[Eastside Parkway]

One observation. The MacBook has one FW bus

Firewire drives can be daisy chained. And he could always get a hub if it was really a problem.

[Drew599]

If your going to be doing all that get the MacBook Pro. I went out with mine this last summer up to Washington and made a video for this camp with my HVX. I would shoot all day, go back to the place I was staying at and download everything off the P2 Store onto a portable 2 drive eSATA bay. The camp was for only a week but I got the video done on the last day of camp to show all the kids.

[mcgeedigital]

I edit uncompressed broadcast SD all the time with my G4 PB with an AJA IO LA and a G-raid running off a cardbus FW port.

Works well.

[Nik Manning]

I edit uncompressed broadcast SD all the time with my G4 PB with an AJA IO LA and a G-raid running off a cardbus FW port.

Works well.
Do you know if this setup could handle 720p24 uncompressed using the sheer codec?

[Nik Manning]

also does anyone know what you would need to get 4 multiclips of dvcpro50 playing in final cut pro? I tried to edit the incubus videos like this and it completely didn't work when editing off of 2 drives.

[David Saraceno]

Firewire drives can be daisy chained. And he could always get a hub if it was really a problem.

Daisy chaining or using a FW hub is not going to work with DVCProHD.

There are too many issues with single FW bus acquisition.

If you are doing this seriously, then hubs and daisy chaining are both receipes for disaster.

They are bad enough for NTSC DV, much less higher bandwidth codecs.

[rickw88]

Daisy chaining or using a FW hub is not going to work with DVCProHD.

There are too many issues with single FW bus acquisition.

If you are doing this seriously, then hubs and daisy chaining are both receipes for disaster.

They are bad enough for NTSC DV, much less higher bandwidth codecs.

agree... for Macbook Pro, try find a ExpressCard/34 with eSATA connected to external storage. This is the fastest and most stable solution i can see.