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Does anyone know of a good lipstick camera dvr setup that works well with FCP?
It seems there are decent setups for Baja Racing, Nascar and Motorcross but some do not work
well and are a little buggy with formats in FCP?
Thank you very much any and all help.
Mike
15' macbookpro Mac OS X (10.4.6) 2 gig ram 2 external drives, 1 USB and 1 Firewire 23 inch monitor

It isn't the camera you need to be concerned about, it's the recording device/format that matters in FCP. Most 'lipstick' type cameras need to be connected to a separate recorder. Choose a recorder and format that works well with FCP ... like just about any standard video format.
=DH

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