Good turnkey system for editing hd

I don't think there are any other options besides FCP-HD. I mean, what would the other firms' high end product be if they supported DVCProHD in a sub $1000 application? Obviously, there is a market for UncompressedHD in effects work, but I don't think that's the majority of customers. Apple supporting this workflow is almost too good to be true!
 
No....Intel for powermacs wont be out for over a year. Next week dual core G5's will be coming out.

If your editing, use whats available to edit, there are plenty of people cutting on dual 800 G4's. You can edit HD now, and a G5 will be viable for at least 3-4 more years.
 
i am a guy who learned and owned my own avid media composer suite. loved it at the time. i started the move to FCP at version 1.5 with a G4. i have never regreted it for a moment. the first time i tried to get something to work with an avid system that didn't have an avid name plate on it and cost 2 or 3 times what it should or get stuck on something in the system and had to take a whole day to reinstall, redo the settings and hope it all came together and could not get help without paying 499.00 for a phonecall only to find out i wasn't told about an update that would have been free if i had their 3900 per year service contract, (takes breath now) i then cursed the day of proprietary avid technology. they have come a long way with attitude but only because of the need to catch up and survive, not because they really care about the end user. the whole FCP and mac world is for profit but will i hope will always stay about the core end user. FCP support by users will never be matched by the avid people - sorry for you avid worshipers, the culture of a company is what it is. arrogance doesn't know how to be humble and honest. just one guys opinion though. if your tools work for you, then stay with them. it's still about the content.
 
On IBC they edited DVCproHD coming from a HVX pre-sale with a dual 2,7 Ghz G5 and 8gig of RAM directly from the P2 recorder, of course flawless...
Well, to pricey for me... Lots of RAM for HD work would be crucial to Apple editors mentioned, maybe one of the tech guys could explain?
Barry also stated that DVCproHD should be less hard to handle than HDV, because of the I-Frame only compression.
Since I posted about DVCproHD editing the first time, I came to the following:
If there will be jobs to pay for it, I´ll go with a beefed out G5 since Pana and Apple still have there little romance going on and I got used to FCP...
If the future doesn`t look so golden for me paid job`s wise, I will go with an AMD X2 system, so far the 4800+ gives every rival cpu a beating at this price... a good, sufficient system for handling HVX footage should cost around 2000 to 2500$ the time the pana is available...
As NLE app I´m using Edition right now or FCPHD, if Pinnacle/Avid won`t support HD in Edition because of Avids other aystems I`ll change to PP, Adobe surely will...
 
I learned FCP from a guy who used Adobe and had never touched FCP. In a day I knew how to edit video. (At least the basics of cutting etc). I've never used Avid but I know a lot of people love it. When I was in school the "Video Toaster" was all the rage, now with Macs/PC and a $500 or less software package you can be editing SD and HD video. I hear the new Avid has a feture that allows editing of HD and SD (I believe HDV too) footage on the same timeline flawlessly.

-Nate
 
yes, DVCPro HD will need a lot of RAM, but it will be easier on the CPU than HDV. when i got Liquid and put it on my old P4-2,4GHz it struggled with DV, but it ran smoothly with uncompressedSD. HDV is even harder encoding than DV (sizewise), so you need a lot of power to just play a native clip. DVCPro will run smoothly on smaller machines, but for effects you need RAM in both cases.
 
alpi69 said:
... when i got Liquid and put it on my old P4-2,4GHz it struggled with DV, but it ran smoothly with uncompressedSD...
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It struggled with DV?? Jesus, that is bad.

I guy I work for still uses an old G4 Dual 450Mhz, and that even chucks DV around like a rag doll. I think the first machine I ever used an NLE on was a P2 266MHz, but that did drop the odd frame and had the classic 2GB file size limit... those weren't the days!
 
I currently use an iBook G4 with 800 MHz and an iMac G5 1.6. Filled with plenty of RAM and a Firewire-Raid it is just working fine. I'll be finishing my 5th or already 7th (?) feature soon;)

Are there any DVCPROHD files available for download? So everyone could try editing with his/her system…

Once I took a practical course at a German TV broadcaster and they used AVID MC. Well, it had some nice features and media organising seemed to be better. (tons better then FCP!!)
 
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