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Editing HD On A Desktop-Part II
The introduction of the JVC HD10, the first high-definition camcorder selling for under $4,000, has the potential of finally jacking HD into common usage, consequently lighting the revolution in teleproduction that we have all been expecting for several years. Respecting the magnitude of this launch, and predicting the introduction of competition camcorders at NAB 2004, Videography editors have allowed me to review the HD10 in three parts: Part I, which ran in the October issue of Videography, Part II, which focuses on the bundled NLE software; and Part III, which will take you through an actual production, from acquisition to final edit.
HD Software For The HD10
Although the camera comes bundled with nonlinear editing (NLE) software, potential buyers may be interested to know that several manufacturers are rushing to produce additional software with a wide variety of features. These include CineForm's Aspect HD, which works as a plug-in for Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Apple's Final Cut Pro 4. (Apple has not yet announced support for the JVC cameras under Final Cut Pro.)
Connecting The Camera
In order to begin editing, the JVC HD10 must be connected by FireWire to a Windows computer running appropriate editing software. When properly connected, the camera appears as a normal online device-like a hard drive or digital camera. Unfortunately, this connection process proved extremely difficult to complete on a cloned machine (based on an ASUS P4C800 motherboard, with a Pentium 4 3.06 GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL running Windows XP).
Installing the camera on an Alienware computer that had been designed specifically for our review turned out to be just as difficult. Both computers recognized that the camera was connected, and the camera could be controlled from Windows Movie Maker; however, we could not control the camera with any capture utility (either the bundled JVC/ KDDI software or the CineForm Aspect HD software) and we couldn't view the incoming signal feed on either computer's monitor.
During the review, we were not aware that the camera had to be switched to the correct mode (either DV or HD) for the computer to recognize the camera. If you're in DV mode, Windows...