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Converting P2 to Quicktime w/o Computer
Can I shoot 720pn24 clips on my HVX200, then after the shoot that night, play out the clips from the camera into a Firestore FS100 via firewire– recording as Quicktimes?
In other words, can I use the FS100 to real-time convert the P2 card’s clips to Quicktimes (without a computer involved)?
[We can’t simultaneously record to the FS100 while we’re shooting because we’re in the field for hours and only have two FS100 batteries.]
Thanks…
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Nope- would be nice though. That said- you could play the downconverted signal video out into a DV deck and record that. Wouldn’t make much sense though as your timecode wouldn’t match making the DV useless except for viewing. I’d just capture and do the transcodes on your computer.
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Thanks for info… the problem is we will not have a Mac during the shoot with FCS loaded. It’s an old 1ghz PowerBook with the PC card slot, to transfer/back-up the P2 files to an external drive. No way to actually SEE see the clips (P2CMS will not play back P2 clips on that Mac, I tried).
So the only thing I can think of is to buy a P2 ingest/viewing app which will run on the old PowerBook, the cheapest of which I believe is about $200.
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Have you tried installing FCP on that Powerbook?
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Yes, the PowerBook is too underpowered and FCS refrains from installing. So I am trying to figure out a way to know for sure I have OK clips backed up on the hard drive before I wipe the cards.
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What about obtaining a copy of FCP 5- that would install on your machine and would enable P2 work.
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This is a good idea. I have an old G4 tower with another FCP license that was never upgraded, I’l check to see how P2-ready that version is, and if OK find those disks and install on the PowerBook.
Thanks!
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Noah, one last question on this:
If I can install a 5.1 FCP on the older PowerBook, and ingest P2 clips thereby creating an FCP Quicktime set of these clips, will those (5.1) QTs open and edit back home in my current and happy FCS2 6.05 system?
Thanks!
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Sure it’s still QuickTime .MOVs with DVCPROHD codec. They will open fine in FCP 6. There’s of course going to be some versioning issues i.e. any projects you create on the laptop in 5 will be changed to 6 on the desktop and then not be re-openable on the laptop. But I’m guessing that’s not a big deal.
Noah
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You guess correctly! Projects on the old PowerBook would be only to ingest.
So while we’re out of town on the shoot we’ll be able to view/check the P2 clips, convert them to FC-flavored QTs to an external drive, and keep the original P2 folders saved to another external drive. There’s a good production workflow!
Thanks so much for the advice.
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You got it- yeah a Powerbook still makes an ideal P2 transfer and review station IMHO, especially for FCP.
Noah
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