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Editing using HPX500… more test results
*Finally* got around to testing multiple formats for the “edit & playback from camera” concept. For those that haven’t heard, you can edit using clips on the 500 via USB and FCP. Then “push” the edit back to a card in the camera when done.
Great results…. DV25, DV50, DVCProHD 720 24p, DVCProHD 720 30p, and, yes, DVCProHD 1080i60. Tested using 30 second edit sequences, with effects & 3 channels audio output. This is no replacement for a fast RAID array with SCSI or FW800 interface, but for basic editing, it should be fine. Note the obvious limitations on space…. you can only use cards **in** the camera (no swapping), and space for the final edit output must also be available (though you could create a card image on the laptop, re-format one of the cards, and then copy the image to the card).
But thinking of ultra-fast run n’ gun, followed by the fastest edit POSSIBLE ANYWHERE, then SDI-HD/SD output, well….. WOW!
Oh yeah, Raylight is mandatory for this exercise.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
http://www.CoolNewMedia.net
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Bob, Your doing all this via firewire and a 15″ MacBook Pro. No extra Hard drives?
This is great news.. Location > shoot > edit > deliver > Pay me Now… I love it … Oh you want her lips “just a shade redder” no problem but that’s extra…
You have a Fuji Lens on your 500 ? does it have the 2x extender? is the 2x worth it?
Still prefer the fuji over Cannon?
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USB 2 & 17″ MBP, FCP & Raylight. Only drive is in MBP.
Fuji w/ 2X. 2X is useless…. unless you need it. 😉
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I tried to reload a clip into a card in the camera and could not get it to work.
The Raylight instructions were a bit thin and as far as I could tell you could only reload a maximum of one card (no spanning) and no multiple clips per card. I would love you to outline a detailed method of how you uploaded your edit. Also do you have to make a .mov file of the finished sequence? -
Do your edit, make a QT output (it can be a reference file, doesn’t need to be complete w/ media).
In Raylight, open the P2Maker tab & drop that file on the tab (or use Raylight’s instructions on how to use the “scan folder” for the source file).
I haven’t tried the metadata import function yet… hasn’t been a concern for me.
Have the destination card mounted (either directly or in the camera) & use the Destination section of Raylight to point to it. **IMPORTANT** if you have multiple cards mounted, they **MUST** have unique names (not NONAME – I use simply A, B, C, D) or the output will fail.
Select the card size & hit Start.
I’ve tested writing to cards with and without pre-existing clips on the destination card, success either way.
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Bob,
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I’ll give that a whirl.
Regards
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