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xdcam hd -> p2
Hi all,
Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday season and a happy new year 🙂I work for an aquarium in the south east and currently we’re adapting to the Sony XDCAM HD workflow shooting on an EX-1. So far we love the quality of the footage, but the PR department is getting on to us about getting an XDCAM HD option instead of going P2. You see, all of the media stations around us except for 1 have gone to the Panasonic P2 format for delivering hi-def news. And here we are with an XDCAM HD camera and no way to output true HD footage (we were using sony HDV previously).
I tell you all that to ask this: After we record our footage in XDCAM HD, and we pull it in to Final Cut Pro, what would be our best option to get the media outlets video in the P2 format?
Currently, we’re toying with the idea of importing the XDCAM footage and dropping it into a P2 timeline in FCP. Once we have the package cut to spec, could we then export the p2 sequence in a p2 format and then drop it on to a dual layer DVD for the stations to import drag-n-drop style? Obviously we’d be limited to ~7 – 8 minutes due to disk space, but is this workflow feasible?
Hope I explained that well enough and thanks for the replies!
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Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to adapt the playout stations to something that matches the taking camera format- i.e. get rid of P2 as you’re no longer shooting it? Such as a nice intensity card or a Kona 3 for desktops?
Noah
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I think he means TV stations outside their location.
Adobe CS4 can convert to P2 format with the Adobe Media Encoder and you can use Premiere Pro to go back to the card.
I believe Raylight can do the same.
Are these stations FCP based or mixed? It will impact what you spit out
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Yes, I did mean TV Stations outside of our building (CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, and one other one can’t remember). Anyway, I think they’re mixed, a couple are running FCP and a couple might be running Avid NewsCutter, I’ll try and find out. I’ll look into raylight, as I’m sure we won’t be upgrading to CS4 very soon, we did the CS3 update within the last 6 months… 🙁
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How would you give them the footage if you were shooting on P2? Surely you were not going to walk the footage from station to station and have them copy it from the card?
First decide how you are going to give them the files. Hard drive, make it available for download, etc… Then see what format they want it delivered in. Bring your footage into your system, do whatever you plan on doing with it, export in the format they want. It is really that simple.
Even if you were shooting on P2 you have to decide how you were going to deliver the footage to them.
Kyle
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