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Proxy Video Encoder Card
Hello everyone…
(especially you fine ladies and gentlemen at Panasonic)Our station group is going P2 and, well, I’m a bit confused.
Many of us rank-and-file, end-user types have asked for proxy video encoder cards, believing that having them would be beneficial to the “work-flow.”
The corporate Kahunas say “Nah, you don’t need those cards ‘cus the cameras already recorder proxy video.”
Huh? All the literature from Panasonic that I’ve read seems to suggest that the OPTIONAL proxy video encoder card is REQUIRED to capture MPEG4 proxy video.
Am I missing something here? Can more than one flavor of proxy video be recorded? Could our corporate execs be wearing their neckties too tight?
Does proxy video actually do any good in the REAL world?
Thanks for any insight…
-j.c.
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2 Replies
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I’m pretty sure you need the -optional- card for creating proxy video. The idea behind putting it in a separate card, is that you can upgrade the thing if newer/better proxy-codecs come available.
So, I think the Kahunas are wrong. However, frankly I don’t think you need the proxies. If you’re using Sony’s XDcam, you need the proxies because the xdcam is damn slow. The only way to get a bit of decent workflow is to transfer the proxies, edit, and then batchcapture the hirez images. You can’t work of the disks directly unless you use the XDcamplayer as a traditional VTR.
The P2 on the other hand is so fast( approx. double of a Harddisk), that you use the hirez directly from the card. No messing about with lorez. No importing, no capturing, …
The only use for proxies for P2 I see, is for giving a lorez copy on a SD-card, to a script-girl / director / … so they can watch the stuff at home.
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The only use I see for the proxy is for PDA viewing and for internet or satellite phone file transfer to the station (from where other links are not available). For editing purposes, prroxy isn’t necessary, IMHO.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd
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