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Working With P2 Footage
I’m taking on a new project where the footage will be shot on to P2 cards from a Panasonic HPX2000 camera. I believe the camera guy wants to shoot it 720p/30. The footage will be transferred via P2 card reader to a hard drive and delivered to me.
I just wanted to hear from someone who has used P2 footage. I saw the official P2 workflow from Adobe and had some questions:
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/pdfs/P2HD_CS4_workflowguide.pdf
Do I need to download P2 drivers and the P2 Contents Management Software (P2CMS)?
Do I need a striped disk array? If so, Can I stripe two of my internal sata drives together – I’m on a MacPro with 4 internal drive bays with 7200rpm drives. I also considered a LaCie 1T raid 0 external drive. Has anyone tried that?
Also, is 720p/30 a good choice to shoot. I don’t have CS4 open at the moment but I thought I didn’t see 30 as a ready option – I’ve used 720p/60 in the past.
Any advice on the workflow would be helpful. My first time with P2 has me questioning everything.
Thanks!
Specs: MacPro v10.5.8 – 2x3GHz quad core – 6GB ram
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My footage arrived and I transferred the P2 footage with little problem. I do have another issue that I’ll create a new post for in the forum: The camera pans have a very noticable jitter to them. If noticed it on other HD (nonP2) footage. Any clues on where to start looking?
The footage is DVCProHD 720p/60 and 720p/30.
Do I need a striped drives – RAID 0?
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