Does FCE work with a Sony PMW-EX1 ?

Hi,
Final Cut Pro does, but anybody know about FCE?
And if so, what kind of machine power is necessary to have a descent performance?
thanks,

It does if you capture HDV and what Tom said is that during capture it transcodes to Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) and if that is the case then the original time code is not part of the capture. When you have EX1 HDV you would have to capture it using the camera via firewire playing the clip in real time. This means you would have to shoot the project and then copy the BPAV file back onto the SxS card and hope it plays the SP clips so you can capture into FCE as AIC.
This is a way to separate the FC Express with FC Studio not allowing advanced codec use with FCE.

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