How could I process the footage?

Pascal Parvex

Pascal Parvex

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You know, it would be neat to have a CineAlta at home, but apart from the fact that I could barely lift that thing, how am I supposed to process the footage? I mean, I have a 3.06 GHz 533 FSB CPU with Hyperhtreading, one Gigabyte of 266 MHz RAM, FireWire and a 7200 RPM hardisk, and even with this, SD DV is clumsy enough to handle. I once exported about 2 minutes of DV in 1920x1080 24 frames progressive with Blade 2. The File is about eleven Gigabytes huge. When I play it with Quicktime, it goes like this: I loads five seconds, then the video will play slowly for two seconds, the it loads another five seconds with freezed video to play then another two seconds and so on.

So, how will this work for the new Panasonic? Do I have to buy a Quad-CPU-System with four HT-P4s and High-Speed Harddisks with loads of RAM?

By the way, right now I'm exporting thirty seconds of DVX-DV to Film 2K, the highest possible thing in Blade 2. I wonder, how this will play.

And...if I should buy the HDX anyway, I will wait for the bugfixed HDX100_A_.
 
Re: How could I process the footage?

Just because the camera records High Def does not mean it records uncompressed High Def.  Just as DV is a compressed version of Standard Definition video that can be edited in its native format, DVCPROHD is a compressed version of High Definition video that can be edited in its native format.  There is generally no need to uncompress it unless your workflow involves high-end effects, high-end color correction, or multiple compression-decompression cycles.

The data rate for 720p24 DVCPROHD is just 40Mbps, or about 60% more than DV.  Most hard drives from the last few years should have no problem with it at all.  If the camera supports 720p60 or 1080i (which is unlikely, in my opinion), then you might need to upgrade your hard drive to deal with 100Mbps data.  Editing DVCPROHD will require more CPU power than editing DV because of the higher compression rates and larger amount of data in DVCPROHD, but it shouldn't be a lot more.  You'll probably do fine with your current system, but you may have fewer realtime streams and effects available.
 
Re: How could I process the footage?

Avid Express HD and Apple FCP HD already work with DVCPRO-HD's codec, natively. I'm dreading having to switch editors, I want to stay with Vegas, but if Vegas doesn't support the DVCPRO-50 and DVCPRO-HD codecs, I'm going to have to adopt one of the editors that does. I was talking with an FCP editor just a couple of nights ago, he tells me that on his mac he gets two streams of DVCPRO-HD in real time, color correction in real time, etc.

I don't think desktop editing of DVCPRO-HD is going to be a problem.
 
Re: How could I process the footage?

Switched to Mac G5 this week-end. :D  I'm ready for DVCProHD now! ;D  FCPHD pro bundle is in the mail.

An the answer is no... for those of you thinking this is the only reason I bought a Mac.  There are many other reasons, but it just so happens that I'll be natively DVCProHD ready.  ;)  And I've been thinking about it for quite some time now.

Although I am keeping the PC-PPro-RTX100 until the learning curve is past... and that I'm confident enough that the Mac can handle everything that I used to do on the PC.

As die hard PC user and techincian for some 17 years now, I have to say that I'm surprised by the functionality and elegance of the Mac.  It may be a tadd slower then the latest bleeding edge PC, but the experience is, so far, a very pleasant one.
 
Re: How could I process the footage?

Speed is relative to work done. I think you might find the mac a little quicker than your PC in this respect.

and.. welcome to roaming gang of mac users.. we usually travel in packs.

;)
 
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