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HVX200 and P2 +/-
I’ve been working with our new HVX200 for over a month now, and have shot several projects. Let me say first that I love the camera. It’s a remarkable piece of engineering. Barry Green’s book is also great… and a necessity. The one thing that may not be clear to those about to jump into the P2 workflow, though, is that it has some real challenges. With all of the advantages of a tapeless system, the MXF transfer and the dumping of clips from your camera–or from your laptop after archiving to two hard drives (or whatever system you devise)–is an anxious moment.
There’s no going back for me. But I wince every time I dump clips, even when I’ve backed up twice. And since hard drives fail, I don’t think I’ll feel really safe until I get something like DLT or other established backup system so I know that all that footage is safely tucked in and ready for access two years from now.
No regrets at all. Having a camera this good for this price is remarkable. Having clips instantly available is great. Having metadata will probably change all our lives significantly. But dumping clips still makes me cold.
GPW
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I also use the HVX and love the P2 workflow….
Had to rent a 1200 deck too digitize some
VariCam footage…
Now I was wincing having to shuttle back
and forth and digitize again…
I sure wish they would have shot with P2!!
BTW – The footage we shot with the HVX
looked way better…. -
On Perestroika, we also used redundant hard drives, but we backed those up with 2 sets of DVD-ROM (twice the redundancy!). All cards (73 of them) were cloned to DVD+DL using Toast, so the original directory structure- MXF files, lastclip.txt, etc, was intact.
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