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  Colored block error in P2 ingest

  Posted by Yogifilm on March 2, 2006 at 12:27 pm

  I am a photographer/editor/colorgrader.
  Im right now in production shooting a comedy series for DR2 (danish national broadcatst)

  We are using the Panasonic Ajx 900 P2 camera.
  We are shooting in 25p DVCPRO25 16/9 Cinema2 PAL

  Im shooting in 25p to keep the original resolution, dont want to compress unnessererely in post. Im shooting interlaced vertical resolution. Because its for tv. De-interlace or field merge and so on is not an option, why then the progressive camera?.
  I want to shoot in cinema2 mode because of the softness of the gamma curve, again to minimize the grading in post.

  I have random errors in the FCP ingest system.
  Colored block errors.
  No errors in camera playback.
  The errors are random, if you via FCP/PDC10, Ajx 900 camera or
  G4 PCMCIA ingest the same take twise, the errors are not nessecerely in the same frames or at all.
  I have pics of the setup screens on Ajx 900 and FCP and screen grab of the errors.
  And a quicktime with all my settings and errors.If interrested.

  Im not shooting in DVCPRO50 because of the amount of material we are shoting, cant handle double up of gbs. It would then be over 100gb material every day in 8 weeks thats 4 tb, times 3: one backup, two for the editors. thats 12tb. Thats very time consuming.
  Then we also have to merge the sound files with the video files it all takes time that we simply dont have.
  If we have to transfer the raw cards aswell, wow!!! At least 5 hours of transfer time.

  Maybe we are handeling it all wrong but if the errors werent there the workflow we are using is cool. And the editor is happy.
  As it is today we are using around 2-3 hours a day to ingest/backup/merge

  I use:

  1ghz power pc g4 cpu 1,1 (powerbook5,2)
  768 mb ram
  osx 10.4.3
  250gb lacie disks 800 firewire
  1tb lacie disks 800 firewire

  Final cut 5.04
  DVCPRO-PAL 48khz anamorphic

  Cam
  ajx 900
  DVCPRO25 25p 16/9 interlaced.
  8gb P2 cards

  PCD 10 cardreader

  Fostex pd50
  LG DVDRAM reader.

  Toke replied 20 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Toke

  March 3, 2006 at 12:29 am

  [Yogifilm] “As it is today we are using around 2-3 hours a day to ingest/backup/merge”

  Yep, tapeless workflow is faster than light…
  Sorry that I can’t help with the problem, but doesn’t European Panasonic have any help?
  Are you the only one using p2 for 25p in the continent?
  Nobody else had any experience?
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  Yogifilm

  March 3, 2006 at 7:17 pm

  Panasonic Denmark are now on the case.

  Thank you all.
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  Toke

  March 3, 2006 at 11:23 pm

  Good to hear,
  please tell us the solution when you find it!

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