DVCPRO 25

[Shane Chadder]

Oh…

And we also use Decklink cards. It will do a fine job of monitoring. They have some issues mixing NTSC DV and uncompressed footage but if you are staying in DV you will find no difference in workflow.

Shane

[Mike Cohen]

looks like panasonic sells the AJ-YAD25 – which it says is for the newer AJ-D255, which replaces the 250 – nicer features actually – do you know if that card will fit the 250?

Mike

[Shane Chadder]

I think you mean the AJ-YAD255 board. I noticed B&H sell it. I’m trying to find out the same question for one of our 250s. I know the 250 we use for firewire has a AJ-YAD250. I think the deck firmware has to be updated to a certain version if you have an early version of the deck.

[Greg Mckay]

Mike – Other have answered your question regarding the use of DVCPro footage so I’ll leave that alone. As for real time viewing of your footage on an external monitor through PPro, I use to use a cheap little Canon Elura40 as a DV/analog bridge to view my footage. Just hook up the firewire from your puter to your camera and then take the video output from the camera (usually a triple mini connection to 3-rca’s) to the monitor. Works ok. There is a very slight delay in audio if you listen to both your computer and TV speakers at the same time. Something like 1/4 sec delay.
I currently use the Matrox RTX100 card now and really love it.

[Ralph Keyser]

We’re using Panasonic’s AJ-SD93 deck and the direct firewire link to PPro. You even get device control without needing an RS-422. As others have mentioned, the DV codec is the same for DVCPRO25, DVCAM, and mini-DV, so no worries there. The thing I’d like to take advantage of is this deck’s DVCPRO50 capability, but so far, other than going out to analog and back in via a board like the Decklink, I’ve yet to find a direct firewire workflow. My partner, who uses this deck directly with FCP, rubs this in all the time 🙂

Ralph

[Dan L.]

Ralph,

I am using Premiere Pro 1.5.1 with a brand new Panasonic AJ-SD93 deck, but can’t get PP to connect via firewire. It won’t see the deck to start loading in footage? I also noticed that the available decks listed in PP doesnt list this deck. How do you have your setup configured to work?

Thanks!
-DAn