"Deckless" Firewire DVCPROHD Deck?

Jarek Zabczynski

Jarek Zabczynski

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So as I understand it, pass through monitoring of HD from FCP back to the HVX and then to an HDTV doesn't work correct? I'm just thinking, why don't they make a firewire device just for this purpose?

I shoot a lot on DV and then go staight to DVD and hardly ever record back to DV. I mostly use my DV deck for monitoring while I edit. It would be great to have a DVCPROHD capable device with various inputs and outputs with a firewire I/O to the computer. Bascially a DVCPROHD deck without an actual deck in it. It's the HD heads that make them so expensive right? I think such a device could easily be set at under a grand.

Or does such a thing actually exist?

Thoughts?
 
No one has created a firewire DVCPRO HD converter Box yet.

One company to watch this NAB is Canopus:

1. They have a long track record, creating low price-high quality firewire DV converters.
2. They have a working software DVCPRO HD codec in their NLE.
3. They have a HD-SDI to component converter.

So they have all the components to do this and they have the FPGA programmers...
 
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The BlackMagic Decklink cards will allow you to play DVCPro HD out via SDI, HD-SDI, Component & Composite - unfortunately not FireWire.
 
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