DVX2000 and a DVCProHD tape drive

[David Cherniack]

[Ron Shook] “Goldangit, don’t you ever read what I write.”

Sometimes 🙂 Actually I read that misive and didn’t link it to the problem of dumping large quantities of P2 material on location. Sounds like a good reason to have a PA.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Ron Shook]

David,

[David Cherniack] “Sometimes 🙂 Actually I read that misive and didn’t link it to the problem of dumping large quantities of P2 material on location. Sounds like a good reason to have a PA.”

Nah, hard drives are for location work with this camcorder, hopefully and probably on board hard drives considering the cost of the P2 media for now. The holographic optical could be used this way but it would be slower and bulkier, best left for archiving in the post studio. I don’t know whether it would be feasible to use this technology in a camcorder but the media certainly has a smaller footprint than BlueRay or the like, i.e., it would fit in a palmcorder.

I just can’t believe that there is practically no buzz about this in the industry. Many new products have the “Revolutionary” moniker attached to them, but this is one of the few that deserves it. In one big step it obsoletes all other archival mediums, including Blue Ray, and DLT and other tape mediums of its ilk, and fills in the last remaining hardware hole in a completely IT/tapeless workflow.

Ron Shook

[Karl Holt]

What would be ideal would be a HDD recorder, similar to an mp3 player which had basic controls, inputs and analogue/digital outputs.

A little protable unit that you can take with you and play on external devices…..

[Christopher S. johnson]

I hate to ask such a basic question, but this camera does have a FireWire port that speaks the Apple/Panasonic FW protocol, right? I mean, I really have not heard anything but assumptions on this. This port might be the key to a third party small drive or tape recording mechanism that one could wear on their body while shooting.

I mean, I haven’t even heard any guarantee that the camera can act as a viewing device to an HD monitor from a Final Cut Pro timeline without an HD card. Shouldn’t it?

-Christopher

[Paul Harb]

Hopefully Panasonic will include this, I hope they dont get greedy and people to buysome sort of P2 playback unit….that would be shooting themselves in the foot I think, it makes it that much harder to deal with in the field….and thus would slow down the flow of this product into the market…..think of how many people would probably buy this camera if it had firewire as opposed to all the people that would have second thoughts if they couldnt stream the footage to a firewire drive on location therefor not being able to get long shoots done with out buying 500 cards and swapping them while you shoot, not going to happen…we can only hope……

[Toke]

I’m not going to wait several years for some new holodisk, that can store whole weeks shootings and then suddenly brakes up or gets lost.
Dvd-r is WORM and already 25c/GB. Dual-layer will be as cheap next year and blu-ray year after.

Just thinking the storage capacity 8GB p2 isn’t even at the same level than decade old miniDV-tape.
Next year when we get 16GB p2’s it will get past that, but it will be tough choise comparing to xdcamHD,
which was just told to have 72Mbps and 50Gt capasity. If that stored data is actual picture data it will have almost double the bitrate at 24p compared to dvcproHD. Well, maybe the prices are also way more than double…