1080i

Hi(Bonjour)!

What is the Sony's model exactly?

1080i (or 1050i for europe) is the standard HDV for Sony.

HDV is handled by FCE by Apple intermediate codec conversion on capture.

This process needs a very fast Hard disk, preferably external and dedicated to video capture.

The captured clip represents 12-15 meg by second.

Visit http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=516733&tstart=50 to see some informations about HDV-DV comparaison.

Do a simple search in this forum with "HDV", "FX1" keywords.

Michel Boissonneault

I use the same model 1080i Sony HDR-HC1. I have captured birthday video on HDV format. while rendering, computer shows up with the msg. ' free up disk space and retry'....does that mean my laptop has no enough disk space and get an external disk space?....pls. advise

Hi(Bonjour)!

HDV represent very BIG files on your hard drive.

Your problem seems to involve a "not enough space issue".

FCE cannot make the rendering if it don't have enough space.

How much free space appear in "about this" Macintosh HD ?

Generally, you can run toward big problems if you have less than 20% of "NON-FRAMENTED" free space on a computer. And that number if for word processing, web suring and basically just save small files.

We talk about HDV here...

Also, if you want to burd a DVD for this movie with iDVD., you must have 4 times the space needed by your source clip. (see about this infos... for FCE capture folder to know this amount).

Your mac have to "cache" big chunck of data on his hard drive when the burning process is involved.

May be it' the time for you to make a big clean up of your HD (play safe and burn those stuff on CD), or buy an external one...