How do you record to a laptop? FS-100?

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Cheesesailor77

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Im saving up for an HVX and occasionally doing research on how I want to use it when i get it.

P2 is still too expensive for me, and for the most part i don't mind being tethered, so recording to my Macbook Pro sounds ideal.

If I have the camera tethered to my 2.33ghz Core 2 Duo/2gig machine with an external HD, how do you record to it?

Also the FS-100, I remember everyone hating on it maybe a year ago, but i see a lot of people are using it now. Is everyone pretty happy with it? Does p2 have advantages over the FS100?

THANKS!
 
As far as FS-100 -- when it first came out, it needed some help. It's had three firmware updates and I think most people regard it as a solid solution now. The new 3.0 firmware upgrade gives it some new capabilities like 720/24pn-like record capability, and direct Quicktime recording for Mac FCP users.
 
thanks Barry

What is Scopebox?

And if i use Log and capture, how does that work? does the L+C window simply display what the camera sees and you record by hitting capture on the computer? or can you use the record button on the camera. This was my problem with andromeda. I have NO issue with being tethered, but I can't baby sit the computer while I shoot.
 
Because you set "device control" to non controllable, you are not going to hit the record button, but instead capture now and escape to stop capturing.
 
Barry_Green said:
Through FCP's "Log & Capture", or through ScopeBox or through the eventual HD version of BenA's "DV Mon."
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Barry,
do you happen to know if ScopeBox already supports streaming DV100 PAL framerates...?
 
Direct to disk recording question

Direct to disk recording question

Hi all. Just got my hvx and tried to record directly to a laptop with vegas 7, I later learn't that vegas lacks a codec to do that. So, I downloaded a trial version of RAYLIGHT.... but it still won't work. I also got the trial version of DVRACK HD, but it still doesn't recognize the camera. Ist it possible at all to record directly to a pc without a p2 card? if so... what do I need to do to make it work?
When I switch to dv mode, vegas and dv rack work perfectly. Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks.
 
  1. Raylight enables you to edit MXF files and DVCProHD under Vegas, but Vegas must have the ability to talk DVCProHD if you want to capture live video with it. Since it doesn't, you can't use Vegas for live capture at all.
  2. There no longer is a trial version of DV Rack 2.0 HD because of licensing problems. The downloadable trial version of DV Rack 2.0 is the non-HD version and doesn't support DVCProHD.
 
Right -- Vegas cannot do live capture of HD or DVCPRO50 from an HVX, no matter what.

DV Rack 2.0 HD can. EDIUS can. And Avid XPress Pro HD can. So yes, you can capture live streaming video to a PC. Best tool for the job is DV Rack 2.0 HD.
 
THoff said:
  1. There no longer is a trial version of DV Rack 2.0 HD because of licensing problems. The downloadable trial version of DV Rack 2.0 is the non-HD version and doesn't support DVCProHD.
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Does DV Rack HD support streaming PAL framerates now?
 
As far as I know it always has. There are a number of PAL users in the DV Rack forum, and I don't see comments specific to that recording format.
 
THoff said:
As far as I know it always has. There are a number of PAL users in the DV Rack forum, and I don't see comments specific to that recording format.
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I almost forgot about DVRackHD because of the PC only politics...
So,
can I run DVRackHD under Windows on IntelMacs?
And since the trial doesn´t offer HD try out anymore - can I DEFINITELY stream 720pN in 25p?
I can´t find anything in the specs about it and need to know for sure...
Thanks!
 
You can't stream PAL 720pN into DV Rack not because it's PAL, but because 720pN doesn't stream over firewire at all. The same holds true for NTSC.
 
David Jimerson said:
You can't stream PAL 720pN into DV Rack not because it's PAL, but because 720pN doesn't stream over firewire at all. The same holds true for NTSC.
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Ok, thanks,
so what about 720p25 then?
And maybe DV rack can strip the extra frames?
 
If I use dvrack hd for capturing, will I have access to all the functions? like variable frame rates, interval recording and all the full functions of 720p/1080. I'm just curious, becoz I treid it with the trial version of dvrack, and some functions were blue. However, I did it with the sd trial version which obviously doesn't recognize the hvx. Could that be the reason why?
Thanks!!
 
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