HD LOG experiences and opinions please.

[Dan Montgomery]

Paul,

Last week we added a few more features including:

-P2 Sub Clipping
-SD card metadata editing

The delay in adding subclips was the lack of a standard within the P2 format itself for storing sub clips. We weren’t crazy about adding something that’s “non-standard”, but as long as it doesn’t affect other apps reading the modified P2 files it is fine.

By Sub Clipping I mean the ability now to select alternative TCs within a given clip. OR, you can create a new clip that’s linked to a playing P2 file. In other words, you can make multiple clips from within a single recorded one.

If you SAVE the P2 volume within HDLog, it will modify the original. If you SAVE AS, you can save the HDLog file and all the attached clips will be converted to QT files. If you EXPORT just selected clips to FCP XML for example, it will only output those clips (and make the short QTs of subclips that you’re looking for).

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SD Card editing gives you a way to pre-load the SD card with metadata such as Project, Reel, etc. I believe you can also add clip naming conventions this way as well, so when you shoot the P2 cards come out with desirable metadata.

Video logging is just the beginning…

[Mitch Ives]

[Noah Kadner] “And why should Sony users have to get stuck with MPEG-2 intraframe editing at 35Mbits while Panasonic shooters get to have full DVCPROHD at 100Mbits? “

Classic Noah… cut to the chase. I think we went to different schools together Noah…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

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