Timothy Harry
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Jul 16, 2007, 2:30 PM
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Re: [alitv] Need advice on new edit bay
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It really depends on your preferences here. You do need to use an NTSC moniter to review your footage. You might want to try a matrox capture card connected via firewire to your mac. I just sunk quite a bit into a new editing computer, but it does not sound like you need the horsepower I required (Bought an 8 core mac pro, 4GB RAM AJA Kona LHE capture card, Panasonic HD monitor, BETACAM deck etc) but I do commercial production too, so that made my requirements pretty high. I seriously think that with what you are wanting in not wanting to mess with HD would allow you to get away with just an iMac, although you will want to load it out with RAM, go for the bigger graphics card, and buy a matrox capture box. If you think at all that you might be moving to HD at any time in the next 2-3 years I would lokk at the 2.66Ghz Mac Pro. You just cant go wrong with it and there are so many things you can expand on in the future. Hal had posted a guide to NTSC color bars in the free library a while back that will help you calibrate any TV monitor, although without the pro controls, its a bit tricky. You are asking for trouble in my opinion to rely on a computer monitor for what your final output will be.
I am putting together a home-based editing system. Can someone describe a bare-bones set-up using non-HDV?
I have a MAC G4 with 1 gigabyte of RAM and FCP5.
Another question-do I need a professional NTSC monitor or would a computer monitor work okay?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Tim Harry
Bandwagon Media
Odessa, TX
"Broad minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion" - Will Rogers
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