HD For Indies

This is the Vydeo card rebadged. Promax are also selling it but cheaper!

HD editing on a laptop? HDV and DVCPROHD along with intermediate codecs are a real goer...Don't really think HD uncompressed is really being done on laptops eh? :-)

You missed a trick Mike, You can edit REDCODE at 27MB/s easy with this setup!!!!!

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Anonymouse - didn't know it was Vydeo card rebadged, are you sure? Do we have any confirmation on that? Sonnet usually designs their own stuff, but I know Joel, one of their senior engineers, has left not too long ago.

As for REDCODE, assuming one could edit natively (which is a stated goal, but not a confirmed reality at this point in time), yes, you're absolutely correct that it could carry the datarate.

Tongue firmly in cheek, this is where I say "Hey! Anonymouse! What are you, some kind of shill for Red? All I ever hear from you is Red, Red, Red! Are you on their payroll or something!"

: D

Couldn't resist!

Thanks for pointing that out, and thanks for contributing, much appreciated. If you can get a confirm on that Vydeo thing I'd appreciate it.

-mike
 

Maybe I am wrong, but since the upcoming P2 adaptor for the P2 card will be using the MacBook Pro slot, SATA seems like a no go in the field, have to use a Firewire 800 or 400 connection for your external drives.-- Unless you use the P2 store or camera to feed the MacBook Pro.
 

James - DOH! Good thinking, and you're right!

The only way to use it for that would if:

a.) You buffered it to internal drive....lame/slow

b.) if there's a P2 reader on FW or USB 2.0 bus
 

Ignoring editing in the field for a mo. This is an ideal for on-set backup of Red drives. have the loader off in the truck listenign to MP3s and backing up the drives off a powerbook. I'd never get them out of there.