Edius and the new Sony HDCAM EX

[RonnieMartin]

In anticipation of the new Sony HDCAM EX camera that I saw At NAB I have ordered a new work station. It was time anyway so I went ahead with the order with 4.5 coming out any day now.

My Question : What kind of slot or card reader will I need for the new machine? My Sony Vaio laptop already has it built in. I look forward to avoiding the long capture times. My average project now is about 3 hours of tape that has to be edited down to about 1.5 hours in order to fit comfortably on a SD DVD.


Thanks

Ronnie

[THoff]

You'll need to add an ExpressCard reader to your desktop -- this one should work:

http://www.synchrotech.com/products-expc/pcie-expresscard-slot-drive_03.html

[PaulTV]

If your Vaio has express, you should be able to insert the card and transfer to either an internal or external drive attached to the laptop. At least I hope so as this is what I need to do whilst shooting.

Paul

[RonnieMartin]

Thanks guys: I sent the info to Ashley at Guy Graphics who is building the nie machine. I want to get around the long capture times. Most of my projects are about 3 hours of raw footage and that means more than 3 hours to get the footage into the computer. I think I could capture with my laptop but I want to get the footage into the workstation that is going to do the final edit.

Besides I don't know if an external HD set up would be fast enought to capture HD.

Ronnie

[THoff]

Besides I don't know if an external HD set up would be fast enought to capture HD.

It should be -- I have had no problem capturing 100Mbps DVCProHD to both Firewire 400 and USB 2 drives using DV Rack 2.1 HD.