Workflow FCP5 and P2 cards

[Jesse Rosen]

Actually you don’t need the P2 drive. By default FCP only looks for the actual cards, but there is a button (forgot what it’s labeled — I’m not in front of that machine now) that lets you manually specify a source location. If you navigate to the enclosing folder (the one that has the “CONTENTS” folder in it) the clips will show up in the window ready for importing.

It really works, I’ve tested it extensively!

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Jesse Rosen
Director of Technical Development
Abel Cine Tech, Inc.

[Stan Timek]

So Jesse,

From your experience the process I’ve described would work? Shoot on the 200 using the P2 cards, once one or both cards are filled, take them to my Pismo (running 9.2) and transfer their contents to an external firewire drive. Once the transfer is complete put the card(s) back into the camera, erase them and shoot more. Repeat transfer process until done for day. Take external HD to edit station and import days material.

If this workflow is possible I could see many people jumping to the 200 for low-cost HD production given that we could use existing laptops for temp field storage. Heck, I’d even use the external HD as my archive system… 120 Gig HD to store a show’s “camera masters” would put all material on a “near-line” storage status.

Am I hoping for too much?

Stan

[Jesse Rosen]

I believe that that should work fine. Of course, there’s no way to test how FCP works with the HVX200 footage yet being as to the 200’s current state of nonexistence…

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Jesse Rosen
Director of Technical Development
Abel Cine Tech, Inc.

[Thomas]

Would it be wortwhile using that same laptop to monitor as well? I understand it will not give you a true HD picture, but I personally couldn’t afford a real HD monitor anyway. Is it it not possible to also set up software scopes on the laptop?

Tom