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Oops, you’re right Barry, I read the original post as being for a 200 not the 2000. My mistake, sorry if I added to the confusion.
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You need to go into the ‘Recording Setup’ menu and select 24p as the ‘Rec Format’, then go into the ‘Scene File’ menu, select ‘Film Cam’ and set the frame rate to 60. You now have 24p shot at 60p, or overcranked. If you shoot 60 at 60, it will play back at 60, or normal speed.
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We ran into this a while back. At that time, I ended up calling Panny service and was told that upgrades were not being offered. I also confirmed this with Jan. However, if things have changed, they would likely post them here: https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/ or here https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/cs/csregistp2m/p2indexe.html, but I don’t see it. My guess is the only chance you have of upgrading firmware is to send the camera to a Panny service center. Jan, is this still true? Please let me know if you learn otherwise.
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Oh, yeah, if the budget is there, anything from Xpress pro HD and up will work. Media composer with an adrenalin or meridien or anything that even rhymes with nitris will do just fine. Liquid and Xpress DV are the only ones that don’t, as far as I know.
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We’ve been using Xpress Pro HD. I believe that is the least expensive version that works. Media Composer is another option, but to be honest, I’m not really sure what you get for the addition money. Both of these are available as software only releases, but if you want an Avid HD DNA, I think you need to start with Media Composer with an Adrenaline.
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I guess since no one else had responded, I’ll at least tell you what I know. I assume you’re in a PAL country and shot 50 with the intent of playing it back at 25 for a 2X over crank effect. I also assume that the process is the same as 60/30 in NTSC, which is what I’m basing my answer on. If you just choose 60P as your recording format, and bring it into a 60P Avid project, it will play at 60P, or normal speed. If you want to shoot 2X over, you need to go into the Recording Setup menu and select 720/30P (or 720/25P), now go into the Scene File menu, select Film Cam for Operation Type and then set the Frame Rate to 60, (50). You will now have a 30P clip shot at 60P, so when you bring it into a 30P project in Avid, it will play at 30, or half speed, which I assume is what you are trying to do.
What I do not know is how to bring a clip shot at 50/60 into a 25/30 project. I’m hoping someone else here might be able to help out as I would like to know myself.
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Hi Shane,
Go into MCR mode, scroll down to “Property”, and pick “system Info”.
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Just want to clarify a couple of points. In Avid Xpress Pro HD, you can edit directly from the cards. Data on the cards looks just like data on a media drive, their is no difference. Once you have the clips up in media tool, you can use the ‘consolidate’ command to copy the clips to your media drive. You do not need to do that ridiculous copy to avid/blah/wtf nonsense that they have in one of their online tutorials. I never understood why they told people to do that. It must have been an early work around.
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Personally, I find it easier to leave the P2 cards in the camera and dump them to a computer via the USB cable instead of using the PCMCIA slot, but that’s assuming you are working alone and can spare the time. Using the camera as a firewire host and dumping to a firewire hard drive is another option. I’ve done the PC shuffle a few times and I think I’d go with a P2 store if you’re planning on doing a lot of it. Sure wish they’d release the 16 GB P2 cards, a 30+ minute ‘film load’ would solve a lot of my problems. We have a couple of FS-100’s and I cannot say enough bad things about them. Spend your money on more P2 cards and come home with all of your footage.
What is your final deliverable? You said that you deliver content to a great many screens, but you did not say how it gets there. If you are rendering out to a file for media servers, as we do, instead of going to tape, I would go with Avid. We started using the software only version of Avid Xpress Pro HD when we first got our cameras and it’s worked out great. If you need to play out real time to an HD tape deck, then I believe you really ought to step up to Media Composer with an Adrenaline, but that puts you into a whole new price range, so the axio might be the best bet. I have to admit I’m not that familiar with that part of Avid’s line, so maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong about this. I guess the other, and possibly most important factor is whether or not you have experience with either PP or Avid. I would stick to what you know, but if you’re going to learn a new NLE, I think Avid is a more marketable skill, but I’m sure their are many here that will disagree.
Best of luck!