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Perplexing Panny 200 P2 Problem HEEELPP
Hi Friends, I posted a similar message on the avid forum. We are in our fourth day of shooting on 2 Panny 200s and are desparate for a solution. Our director would like to be able to use his Avid Xpress HD Pro edit software to view files on the set without compressing the files to another format. Is this possible. What drives will we need. He’s planning on editing on the same system later. Mac Book Pro 2.0 1.75gig or G4 Notebook 1.5 2gig ram. Will he need a G4/5 Tower? Would 10 sata drives striped 0 at 370 mb/sec be sufficient for playback. Thanyou in advance for your time and knowledge! Kind Regards, Chris
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I believe that Avid Express HD works with the MXF files natively…no compression whatsoever. Just for the record, when FCP imports the footage, it doesn’t compress it either, just puts a quicktime wrapper on it.
DVCPRO HD can be editing with firewire 800 drives. A 10-drive SATA Raid at 370MB/s would DEFINATELY suffice. That would work for uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit HD.
Shane
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As far as I know the MAC version of Avid does not support any P2s. They may have something in Beta but he should contact Avid for that.
No problem on the PC side.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
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Thanks Shane and Jan – Can either of you address the “which mac” can we use on the set and then at the bay. Will the laptops be fast enough? We have jittery playback when looking at the files and it’s concerning the director. (Using Avid Xpress HD and firewire 800 drives) Are there any laptops with fw800 ports? Is that our cause for jitter? We’ve filled and downloaded about 1/2 TB of info in our first 3 days of shooting (2 cams all day) Avid website claims that mac and pc have equal p2 (xmf) capabilities. Thanks again for your input. Kind Regards, Chris K
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What format are you playing in? In FCP you have DVCPROHD which plays fine from a Powerbook at 1 Ghz and up and great from any MacBook Pro. I do not know what the support is if any from shipping versions of Avid for Mac. If it’s jittery you’ve either exceeded the capabilities of the laptop by using a codec with a very high data rate or perhaps there is some other issue.
Noah
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This is from the “Read Me” for Xpress Pro 5.5.1:
New Feature Descriptions for Macintosh Editing Application:
Support for Panasonic P2 The Avid editing application now supports the
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[Zach Cobb] “New Feature Descriptions for Macintosh Editing Application: Support for Panasonic P2 The Avid editing application now supports the Panasonic
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