Arne Johnson
May 24th, 2009, 04:37 PM
I posted this in non-linear editing on Mac, but occurs to me this would probably be the better forum:
We've been contemplating buying an Intensity Pro card to capture our V1U footage through HDMI instead of Firewire, so we can more efficiently transcode HDV to ProRes, but haven't been able to find definitive information that this is an advantage of the Intensity Pro. Obviously, shooting through HDMI card has its uncompressed advantage, but I can't find a clear answer as to whether importing through HDMI makes better ProRes footage and/or is faster than letting FCP do it. I know that you can't log and capture with either method so that's a wash. Is the Intensity Pro transcode 1:1 real time instead of with FCP delay? Does it ultimately look better? Anyone know?
We've been contemplating buying an Intensity Pro card to capture our V1U footage through HDMI instead of Firewire, so we can more efficiently transcode HDV to ProRes, but haven't been able to find definitive information that this is an advantage of the Intensity Pro. Obviously, shooting through HDMI card has its uncompressed advantage, but I can't find a clear answer as to whether importing through HDMI makes better ProRes footage and/or is faster than letting FCP do it. I know that you can't log and capture with either method so that's a wash. Is the Intensity Pro transcode 1:1 real time instead of with FCP delay? Does it ultimately look better? Anyone know?