HVX200 and Final Cut Pro Setup

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Alex 3D

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Pardon me for the questions. We are experienced designers/graphics people that jumped in full throttle into producing TV spots in-house. Learned a lot, but now want to move up in quality.

We are currently researching what is needed to upgrade to this new camera, Panasonic HVX200 with FireStore HD, and to see if our current FCP stations need upgrading. The two main stations are:
Dual 2.0/G5
6 GB RAM
2 TB RAID
23" Apple Display
ATI Video/128 MB
Sony NTSC Monitor
Kona Capture Card (not sure what version)
Flying Cow MIDIman
Sony BetaSP Deck

First, if we shoot DVCPRO 50, can these systems handle this type of footage? Also, can we shoot DVCPRO 50 and go down to DV as we normaly do? I'm guessing this footage will still be better than our old cam (AG-DVX100A), even after downsampling.

Second, what would be a nice system to make this cam sing? I would start with a Quad G5 with lots of RAM. Looking for video card, monitor, HD suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

--Alex
 
Final Cut Pro 5 has presets for all the settings you need. Not sure if you even need the Kona card (except to do the analogue monitoring) as the files are digital from the start.

Tho I'm not the foremost expert at all.
 
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