P2 – Mastering question

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Sallak] “Whoops, I am happy to tell you the 1200a comes with 422 interface as standard.
Good ol’ serial deck control on every version of this deck”

Thanks for pointing this out, David and I’ll clarify for the record:

what I meant was that there is no automatic deck control for recording on to the 1200A using HD-SDI and RS 422. You can ingest very nicely with a 1200A, but “good ol’ serial deck” recording is unavailable. Have you tried it? Whoops, I’ll be happy to tell you it’ll drive you bonkers. It’s not an edit deck. Ask Panasonic, they’ll tell ya…after you buy it of course.

Sure H.264 looks like it’ll be good, The demo I saw of WMV looked fantastic on a consumer HD plasma monitor playing out of a laptop. Quite amazing in fact considering the amount of compression and small file size, but that’s on a plasma display. It’s going to be awesome for client reviews.

None of the staging companies I work for are building their packages around digital playback quite yet. Most of them have QBit, but the technology is not there yet. In order to use the QBit drive system, you need two of them. One configured of HD one for SD. You can get a whole array of SD and HD playback & the proper record decks (usually still in SD) for the cost of those two QBits, don’t forget for those two you also need a live back up of each, so in reality you are paying for four. I recognize that I am definitely in a minority in terms of media delivery and where my work is shown, but it’s my bread and butter and I have to voice my opinions & concerns because I know Panasonic wants my business, even though I am not a feature film maker.

When you put that WMV DVD through a 16K lumen projector and on the big screen in front of 500-1200 people, I guarantee you’ll see every artifact that Microsoft wrote in the WMV HD code.

I am curious to see what Panasonic offers to master in 1080 24p that’s in the price range of the 200.

Cheers,
Jeremy

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[Emery]

I think you guys are missing something. If Panasonic is releasing a prosumer camera they will have to provide the recording medium at an affordable price. Id bet were likely to see P2 cards with an increased capacity and lower price with the announcement of the cam. And it will rapidy get cheaper and larger capacities soon thereafter. Not only that but 3rd parties are bound to step in and make cheaper solutions. We’ve just stepped in to the good ol “computer world” where a slew of different companies are competing with each other. No longer are we tied to expensive proprietary systems from the manufacturer’s. D5 decks are not THAT expensive to manufacturer, if we had one in every home theyd be $1,000 🙂 Thats kind of what were being opened up to with the P2 cards. Solid State memory is massive industry serving far more people than just the broadcast industry, so that savings will trickle down to us sooner rather than later. im already putting together a portable production unit based on the P2 acquisition paradigm. Dont think your going to be limited by the cost of the P2 card reader either. Panasonic will probably charge too much for that too! you could probably build one yourself! Already have a laptop? Great! Than you already have a reader! Food for thought.

Emery

[Barry Green]

[karl] “but if I make an edit say using HDV, I can always finish my short film or documentary and then lay this off back to the camera or a HDV deck. Then if I want to show this to friends I could take the camera round and plug it into their plasma (until we get HDDVD). “

Why couldn’t you do the same with the P2 cam? Finish the edit, copy it back to a P2 card, plug that in the camera, take it to your friend’s house, and play back…

[Karl Holt]

because the P2 card will be too small to play back a 30 minute programme – or however long the module is.