wattersk said:
Well, I am aware it takes a bit of power on your machine to take the HD from the camera. My HD is only 60 gb but I was thinking of using a external HD.
I run a Vaio with a P-M 160 with 1000mb RAM. I use Premeire Pro 7 with after effects. I can't find a HD preset in Premiere though. Can Premiere get true HD Res? Think my machine can handle the transfer?
thanks.
I assume you mean a Pentium-M 1.6ghz notebook with 1024mb (1GB) of ram?
Well the 1.6ghz is going to kill you. Whenever I use fx or transitions or anything in Vegas my AMD2600+ with 1GB of DDR400 starts to bog down. Ive read guys using the latest CPU's being OK but certainly a 1.6 would struggle. HDD, the more you can afford the better. I would dedicate at least 100 GB to just video with HDV, maybe more like 200 or 300. For one serious project that is.
Now I don't use premiere but I know they have come out with updates to add HDV compatability to Premiere so check out their website.
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Will - you're too funny...
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mdifilm - wattersk's intial question was about the FX1 vs AGDVX100a. This is a VERY legitamite question today. And right now the hottest thing for us shoestring budget filmmakers is HDV, so I'm on top of it and much as possible, in the process of getting either/both Fx1, HC1 . Their prices are indisputable, the FX1 produces a top notch picture, the HC1 is completely portable.. sure there will always be bigger better cameras that come along, but right now many filmmakers have been told to "wait for the panasonic, canon, jvc" when in reality the price of those cameras will be dramatically higher and they won't be out for another several months which basically means people have lost an entire year of shooting HD projects.
Now here are the major differences between HD cameras like the VariCam, CineAlta, Viper, etc and the HDV cameras.
The chips on the HDCam units are larger.
The price is 10-15x more for one of the HDCam units.
The color sampling and codecs are much better in an HDCam, but the filesize and data rate are MUCH higher, requiring very high end computers to edit.