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offline workflow for and AVID-Panasonic P2 in a 720p/59.94 format
Is there an offline workflow for and AVID-Panasonic P2 in a 720p/59.94 format?
Due to hard disk space constraints, I am planning to downconvert the p2 master clips to an SD project and just relinking it to the HD resolution when the edit is done during online.
I’ve already seen https://community.avid.com/blogs/training/archive/2008/01/28/302579.aspx
on Avid and Panasonic P2 Offline-Online Workflow and I thought working on a 30i project during offline could work.But when I tried the process on my 720p/59.94 project (Media Composer), i found that i didn’t have a 30i option on my Format tab.
I then tried working on a 30i project first–importing p2 file to bin and all (although, i knew the clips will not play because of the frame rate. but well, had to try…) I tried transcoding the clip to an SD resolution but it took FOREVER to transcode just a clip of several seconds! I had to abort the trancode.
Am I overlooking something? Is there actually a way around it? HELP!
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I have run into the same problem–did you ever solve this?
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Uh, no. We just bought bigger drives to accommodate the files. We just edited on its native frame rate which is 59.94 on Media Composer until we finish it and then another facility converts to 24 frames for printing.
But it really is a tedious workflow and a very time-consuming process (not to mention the drive space needed).
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I wish I would have read this sooner or done better research… I have a relatively small project, but I need to finish to beta, so far the only thing I can think of is making a quick time movie and then importing that into an SD project, but that doesn’t seem like a very good way of going about it…
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well, if your project is just short, you could Quicktime reference your video and them import it to an SD project (as you’ve said). that’s what i did for those necessary dubouts to beta.
good luck!
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