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my Panasonic HPX3000 P2 HD camera white paper
Hello, I am very pleased to be one of fewer than 100 owners worldwide of the fantastic Panasonic HPX3000 P2 HD camera (according to the Panasonic rep for our region, who recently was given this statistic by the company’s order entry people).
We’ve had this outstanding camera since early March. My staff and I have learned an awful lot in the past couple of months about P2, and about how to showcase the amazing images from this camera by creating viewable Blu-ray video DVDs of the full-raster 1920×1080 material from the HPX3000.
I have created a blog on our Web site. I have also written a white paper about our learnings over the past few months. You can download the PDF of my white paper either directly from the blog, at https://joeincardona.wordpress.com, or by accessing the blog from the home page of our Web site, https://www.memphismediasource.com.
I will be glad to answer any questions you might have about the HPX3000, the P2 workflow with the camera and the Panasonic P2 Mobile, which we also own, and about our Blu-ray authoring experiences. My e-mail address is at the end of the white paper.
Thanks!
Joe Incardona
President
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Joe,
Your Blog URL does not link…
I look forward to reading your white paper, especially how you mastered Blue Ray and P2.
How does the 3000 compare to Red, have you had a chance to compare them… They are both about the same pricing when you include lenses and extras..
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So sorry about that, Nate, thanks so much for the heads-up on that!
My bad, there was apparently an extraneous comma at the end of the link when I cut and pasted it into my post.
Here’s the blog link:
https://joeincardona.wordpress.com
Thanks again for catching this!
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Oh, now I see I didn’t answer your question about the Red vs. the HPX3000.
We have not had the opportunity to compare them. There are a couple of DPs in Memphis who own the Red, they love them. However, they do more film-oriented work than we do, we primarily do corporate and broadcast television.
I do know one observation DPs around here have made about the Red is that it involves a lot more steps than the P2 cameras. Editing Red material in an Avid, for example, is said to be a lot more involved. We edit with Final Cut, which is said to be more Red-friendly.
In addition, the camera’s inability to record audio would be very impractical for us.
However, I know the 4K images from the camera must be awesome. The HPX3000 basically shoots 2K images.
A local DP who was planning to use the Red to shoot a music video in New Mexico now says he wants to use our 3000 instead.
This is about all I can say about the Red camera, I know it has many supporters worldwide. I do love our HPX3000, though.
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[Joe Incardona] “In addition, the camera’s inability to record audio would be very impractical for us.”
Hmm- not so solid research there. The RED has had its audio recording capability enabled for several months now.
Noah
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Joe. Congrats on your camera. I know it takes great pictures. Thanks, also for the write up as well. Very cool of you to do.
A little detail I noticed is that you don’t need to add a separate power supply for the Fusion drive and the ioHD. While the Fusion uses the fw400 port, it is not sucking any data from it, it is just pulling power. THought you might want to know that as it will alleviate an extra power source for you.
Jeremy
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Sorry, Noah, I was just going on what a local DP here in Memphis told me last week who works closely with one of the two Red owners here. He cited the audio issue as the reason he didn’t want to use our friend’s Red, along with what he said was the difficulty in getting the footage into his Avid.
I haven’t really read up on the Red camera recently.
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Thanks, Jeremy, that’s really helpful. The guy who our local dealer hired to configure all this stuff for us told us he thought the Io HD was conflicting with the Fusion drive because the video was not playing back totally smoothly from the timeline.
I think we got that licked later, but assumed we still had to follow his advice about getting a separate power supply for the Fusion drive.
Yes, this is what it’s like being on the bleeding edge of technology!
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Yeah, it shouldn’t conflict.
If you scroll down to the bottom of this page:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusionf2.html
You will see me (well not really see my face, but the side of my head more accurately) capturing to a fusion and ioHD with a laptop. Sorry for the shameless plug, just wanted to prove to you it definitely works.
Jeremy
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Hey, Jeremy, nothing wrong with a shameless plug every once in a while, that’s so cool you’re on the Sonnet site! I really like their products, our main HD edit suite has their 8 TB R800 RAID array in it for storage.
Thanks, you obviously have far more experience with the F2 drive than we do.
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[Joe Incardona] “I really like their products, our main HD edit suite has their 8 TB R800 RAID array in it for storage. “
Me too. Me too. It has been working out great. And no, I didn’t get it for free 🙂
Jeremy
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