got my 200a today!!!!

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milleto

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This is my first HD camera, have the dvx and I'm a big fan of this forum, its my daily read. I don't have much to post yet, since I'm still reading through Barry's book still but the camera looks and feels amazing so far. I'm glad to be part of this group...jeje.

Just a quick question I have, maybe someone here could help me with. I'm wondering how good or bad the power book handles dvcpro hd (HVX200a) 720/1080? will 2.1 GHz MB be fine? what will be be my limitations? do you think is a bad idea?

Hopefully I'll sharing more fun stuff about this cam soon.

Thanks

OT
 
Hi milleto! I don't have an answer to your question but I wanted to say 'congrats' on your new camera! I know the feeling! Best of footage to you!
 
Congratulations on the HVX..!

And to answer your question,

Im not sure if you mean you are going to edit footage on your computer, or just watch it, but it would probably be fine for the most basic things, for anything else I would suggest a computer desktop computer with alot of ram most of all.

Hope that helps while waiting for a better reply.
 
Is that a G4 single processor powerbook? You should be cool to edit and do most things, BUT I doubt if you'll be able to view and play back 1080 footage fullscreen. You'll have to watch that stuff minimized, but other than that you should be okay. I've cut HD before on a 1 ghz processor in FCP, and sure it was slow but it worked. Your graphics card will be the slow spot and playing things in full frame might stutter and crash your system, but overal you should be alright for most simple cuts-only edits.
 
i have an old 17" 1.0ghz powerbook g4 and it injests and does basic cut and dissolve edits of p2 dvcproHD footage beautifully. so your MB will be just fine, but without any kind of express/pcmcia slot you'll have to direct connect your camera to transfer the card content.
 
As a general rule, dual core processors should only be purchased if you know the programs you are going to use does actually benefit from the computer having multiple core's.
 
CherryTime said:
As a general rule, dual core processors should only be purchased if you know the programs you are going to use does actually benefit from the computer having multiple core's.
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In today's market, very few people should be buying single core rigs. Even if your application is single-threaded, OSes run plenty of other things in the background that can slow down your application. Plus, it's nice to do more than one thing at once without things taking forever.
 
thanks

thanks

hey, thanks for your replies. happy me hvx....

I was talking about the new MB, dual core 2.1GHz, with 4GB ram. The reason I'm checking is cause I already spent a lot of money of other stuff, I owned a desktop dual core 2.0Gz G5, 4gb ram, and a lenovo r61 for offloading. I was going to get the MBP but now I'm wondering if the lower MB will be enough. Is that a bad idea? FCP6 on it.

never done HD before so I wanted to check with you before...

thanks so much
OT
 
the standard MB will work fine.. I do editing on it all the time. Just a bummer with no PCMCIA cardbuss and no firewire 800.. but other than that works like a charm and it's half the price. Also, don't buy your RAM from Apple. Other world computing is much better and you might want to swap out the harddrive to a 7200 speed and then you are golden.


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Justyn said:
the standard MB will work fine.. I do editing on it all the time. Just a bummer with no PCMCIA cardbuss and no firewire 800.. but other than that works like a charm and it's half the price. Also, don't buy your RAM from Apple. Other world computing is much better and you might want to swap out the harddrive to a 7200 speed and then you are golden.


J
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Hey MilletoCongrats!

The MacbookPro will be perfect! You don't need to swap out the drive if you're editing from an external hard drive. I've done hours upon hours of 720 and even 1080 DVCProHD from a 7200 RPM external FW800 drive with the standard Macbookpro 5400 rpm drive. No worries there.

Enjoy!

Tom
 
ProfessorU said:
In today's market, very few people should be buying single core rigs. Even if your application is single-threaded, OSes run plenty of other things in the background that can slow down your application. Plus, it's nice to do more than one thing at once without things taking forever.
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Yeah I just didnt want him to waste any money , since he didnt really specifiy what he was doing, but thanks for filling me in :)
 
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