Richard Lacey
May 4th, 2010, 02:38 PM
I just received a digibeta of a 16mm film I recently shot.
If I capture it in DV50 what sort of spec Mac will I need to edit effectively?
I currently have a unibody MacBook Pro, 2GB RAM, 5400RPM HD, 2.4GHZ Core 2 Duo.
Mathieu Ghekiere
May 4th, 2010, 03:49 PM
You'll do fine. I edited XDCAM 422 on a non-unibody Macbook Pro. (that wasn't always as pleasant though, but still, DV50 shouldn't pose any problem).
Richard Lacey
May 4th, 2010, 06:33 PM
Thanks for the reply.
Good to know. I've already captured the footage in regular DV, but I'll redo it in DV50 tomorrow.
Richard Lacey
May 6th, 2010, 05:47 AM
When I tried to capture in DV50 I just got a vague error message after 3-4 seconds.
I captured in regular DV instead.
R Geoff Baker
May 6th, 2010, 06:07 AM
How were you 'capturing'?
Cheers,
GB
Richard Lacey
May 6th, 2010, 09:56 AM
Using a firewire cable from the deck into my MacBook Pro.
The deck is quite old and gave one of my classmates a similar error when he tried to capture uncompressed footage.
R Geoff Baker
May 7th, 2010, 06:23 AM
I guess I don't understand your workflow.
Transferring 'uncompressed' via Firewire? Outputting Digibeta via Firewire & 'capturing' it as DVCPro50? Colour me old fashioned but I thought Firewire would only transfer a compressed DV25 stream from a deck (and one with a built in convertor if it wasn't a DV25 deck to begin with) ... Far as I know the only DIgibeta decks with Firewire had just that -- a DV convertor built in, so you could take a Digibeta tape and output a DV25 dub with matching timecode.
Anyway, you should have no problem if you stick with DV25, though clearly that is a step down from the format you wanted.
Cheers,
GB