Posted by Spex on 01/11/28 11:49

Kaveh wrote:
> Spex <No.spam@ta.com> wrote:
>
>> Kaveh wrote:
>>> I have a sony HC1 HD camcorder. I want to use it to shoot events where
>>> scenes will last more than one hour, so I can't use tape. So I want to
>>> record direct to disk using Firewire on a Mac. I have a fast LaCie 500
>>> Gb disk.
>>>
>>> Now on tape, one hour takes a whole tape, or 13.7 Gb. Will recording to
>>> disk take the same amount of space for 1 hour? I tried capturing through
>>> iMovie, and it seems to be around 30Gb for an hour. Can anyone enlighten
>>> me on this? Why should it take up more room on disk than on tape?
>>>
>> If you are recording HDV it will be of the order 13GB/h. iMovie
>> probably uses Apples Intermediate codec which uses a much higher bit
>> rate and therefore much more hard drive space.
>>
>> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301599
>>
>> That should answer your question...
>
> Sure does Spex. Thanks a lot. But a follow up: Do you need to go through
> FCP to capture HDV?
>
I believe that is the case. Personally I would not want to work in
native HDV and would work with the AIC even though I'd use more HDD
space. Its much less processor intensive and you should gain by having
a more responsive editing experience. Output quality will also remain
high. HDV is destroyed in just one generation IMHO.

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