I have been using windows and hating life since the beginning of time. I have been thinking hard about a mac lately and when I ran across a deal on one I took the plunge. I just started with it but I can't figure out a way to record direct to the mac hard disc. On my windows machine I use Onlocation which I like. I can record direct to the disc and then pull the file into the editor (In actuality what follows is numerous crashes and a lot of frustration-thus the mac) . Of course Onlocation is the windows version. Is there anything like it for the mac? I wonder, maybe I could record to a remote hard drive and then connect that drive to the mac for editing. Does anyone have any experience or suggestions?
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Record direct to FCP???
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Posted 1 year ago #
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What are you trying to record *from* Steve? You have a camera plugged in? A mic for audio only? Something else? Let us know. If we don't know the answer, maybe we can do some tests and figure it out...
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Cheryl, standard procedure for a lot of video, and from what I see so far for Final Cut Pro, is to record video to tape in your camera and then download that content to your computer hard drive by playing the tape back through the camera while connected to your computer. Adobe's Onlocation software allows you to connect your DV camera to your computer via firewire and record directly to your computer's hard drive. Onlocation has light and audio meters etc. to help you get good quality video. Recording direct to disc saves a lot of time but you do need a procedure to backup your file since you don't have a tape. I don't even have tape in my DV camera when I record direct to my Windows computer using Onlocation.
I would like to record video from my DV camera directly to the Apple computer hard drive like I do on my Windows machine. What I am asking is "Does anyone have a method to do this?".
Adobe may make an Apple version of Onlocation, but that would be an expensive solution. If I can use a format on an external hard drive that is compatible with both Windows and Apple maybe I can record to the external drive using the Windows computer and Onlocation and then connect it to the Apple machine so I can edit distribute etc. Maybe there are other solutions. I am sure I am not the first person trying to do this. Maybe there is an easy way to do it that I am just not aware of. I hope so. Does anyone know of a method to do this.
Do you understand my question now?Posted 1 year ago # -
iMovie let's you record directly from a camera connected to the Mac. I haven't used it, so don't know the limitations.
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Thanks, I'll check it out. This morning I have been looking at ichat. I can record there as well, but it is not nearly as sophisticated as Onlocation. It is more like doing a video email with a toy camera like a logitech.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Hi, I'm a Final Cut user and I'm not sure if this has been solved or not, but you can record video directly into Final Cut, though I wouldn't do it often.
You still need to have a camera connected to your computer, but instead of recording to the tape, you can bring it in to your hard drive from FCP. I can't really vouch for the quality of it, but for short clips I think you'd be fine.
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Adobe's Onlocation software's purpose is to enable recording direct to a hard drive. It provides waveform monitors, camera and field monitor calibration, vector scope and vectra analysis, audio spectra analysis, etc. You can tweak your camera, lighting, etc. to record very nice quality video direct to a hard drive. I have recorded up to an hour of video direct to a hard drive without a problem. Typically I use an external usb hard drive. It saves a lot of time and the quality is good.
I expected Apple to have something just as good. The salesman, of course, told me it was included in FCP. NOT. So far I have recorded with ichat and imovie to the hard drive. The only way I can see to record to FCP is to tell FCP it is getting data from a tape in the camera when it is actually just getting raw video. This is not what I expected.
For now my flow is to set up with my windows computer using Onlocation and then record to imovie using that setup. I was hoping someone had a better system.Posted 1 year ago # -
I have an AJA LHe and Mackie 1202-VLz3
We have a project that has 20 something individual spots that need VO scratch tracks so that the client can have an example of what the spot will be with the script.
I have been using my HVX200 to record to P2, then log and transfer, then remove video and copy and paste the audio where needed.
I know someone out there is laughing, but I don't know how else to do this. I've never used pro tools, sure that would be the first clue. But do you have to have specific application or can Soundtrack do this?
All I need to do is go from a phantom power mic to, something of this computer.
Thanks for your help and have a good one.
Posted 3 months ago #
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