Shooting straight to MacBook Pro.

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Jamie McIntyre

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Hi there,

I'm new here - just signed up. I have recently purchased a HVX200 and I'm still working on saving up for some P2 cards!

For the time being I'm laying the footage down to a MacBook Pro.

Would someone mind taking the time to give me a brief run down on the best way to do this? My MBP has a Firewire 800 port but I'm not sure if you can go 6 pin to 9 pin? SO what cable would I need?

I also have Final Cut Pro 6.

What are the best settings/best quality to record to my MBP via final cut?

I don't want to fill my hard drive up in 5 minutes you see.

Cheers,

Jamie McIntyre
 
I'm also curious about this, I just bought a MBP too, but it seems sketchy, dropping frames-wise. Recording to an external HDD with two Firewire slots is what I've seen. Setup looks like: (firewire connecting everything) Camera to external HDD, ext. HDD to MBP.

I'm curious to see what others say though...
 
You match your Final Cut Pro settings for DVCProHD to your cam settings and set the device to noncontrollable. Any setting but pNative in the cam.

I do not recommend recording to your boot drive at all. You will OS, FCP, and media all competing at the same time.

I also recommend a eSATA or FW800 ExpressCard to create access to an external media/scratch drive. You do not want the cam and the HDD on the same firewire bus.
 
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