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  P2 offline viewing/logging

  Posted by Marc Istook on October 9, 2007 at 5:13 am

  I’m new to the HVX and am about to shoot some footage for a client. He has a question about viewing and logging the footage apart from the high-res footage we’ll be ingesting into his Mac. What solutions have you HVX users found to be the most efficient in situations like these?

  As far as I can tell, these are my options:
  1. Dub to MiniDV with the timecode, which his loggers can then use for logging
  2. Somehow create a window dub on a DVD, which his loggers can then log
  3. Proxies — does the HVX record proxies like XDCam does? I apologize if this is an ignorant question — I’m still getting up to speed via the manual and have searched the forums for an answer to this and haven’t found one.

  Also, what is evolving as the preferred method of archiving P2 footage? Plain old external hard drives?

  Thanks for your answers and patience.

  Regards,
  Marc

  Matt Gerard replied 18 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Matt Gerard

  October 9, 2007 at 2:37 pm

  [Marc] “1. Dub to MiniDV with the timecode, which his loggers can then use for logging

  Will work, but you will need a device to play the footage out with timecode (camera?) or ingest it, then play out with timecode, but then you would just log it, wouldn’t you?;-)

  2. Somehow create a window dub on a DVD, which his loggers can then log

  Same as above, need to play the footage out from something to make a realtime DVD dub, or ingest it and encode, then output to dvd, which seems silly.

  3. Proxies — does the HVX record proxies like XDCam does? I apologize if this is an ignorant question — I’m still getting up to speed via the manual and have searched the forums for an answer to this and haven’t found one.

  Honestly, i can’t answer this one, I have the 2000, which WILL record proxies, but I believe they are only usefull in the Windows version of the P2 Logging software, which I don’t have (need a PC, don’t ya?)

  Also, what is evolving as the preferred method of archiving P2 footage? Plain old external hard drives?

  We archive to hard drives, you can get 300gig seagates for about 64 bucks a piece, and we use the weibetech RTX100 trayless drive bay (https://weibetech.com/products/RTX100.php). Also, backup the actual P2 data from the card, and your project. There have been several times that either FCP or the editor (me) didn’t ingest some shots, and we had to go back to the original P2 data on teh archive drive. I’ll let you guess who’s fault it was most of the time….

  Thanks for your answers and patience.”

  You’re welcome, and good luck.

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