DVCPRO-HD over HDV

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Has anyone used both HDV and DVCPRO-HD in FCP 5? I was wondering how they perform against each other. DVCPRO-HD obviously has a higher bitrate, but does the GOP, processor intensive MPEG2 of HDV make it slower and harder to work with?

I am just thinking about upgrading from FCP 4 and it would be nice to heard from people who have taken that step.

Please could you state your system setup as well...

Many thanks
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Yes HDV is much slower because it must be dumultiplexed and remultiplexed on the fly. A fast G5 can run a couple of streams before it bogs down, compared to many more in DVCPROHD. But there is the cost factor.

-Noah
 
Thanks Noah,
With DVCPRO-HD, is hard disk speed the limiting factor? Do you need raid or is a SATA enough?
 
Depends how much realtime streams you need. DVCPROHD runs at a maximum of about 14 megabytes/second. That's well within ATA and SATA but if you have six streams you'll start to want something faster- such as a SATA raid for cost savings.

Noah
 
thanks agian,

But if I want to save a few quid, I can just use SATA?

In my current G4 I have 4 HDs, but I hear that the G5 will only hold 2. That is a bit of a pain! In a G4 you can set up a nice raid all in the one box!
 
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