Arthur Aldrich
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I believe that FCP supports PH in 24P and 60i, but not 30P right now. Everything has to be transcoded via Log and Transfer to Apple Intermediary or Pro Res.
More interesting is that Adobe Premiere in CS4 will handle AVCHD natively, right off the SD card if you want.
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
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Maybe what you are experiencing is the joining of spanned clips inside cms.
If you mount P2 cards that contain spanned clips, P2 CMS will first scan them as individual clips, then put together any clips that join. So it does appear that clips are coming in and then dropping out.
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
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If you save a scene file with the frame rate you desire to one of the 6 built in selectors, then the frame rate will stick even after a power off.
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
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Have you tried using P2CMS to copy the clips from the card to your drive?
Use the latest version, 1.27
Might try using the camera to offload cards.
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
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The throughput of DVCProHD at 60fps is about 14Mb per sec. Less at 24pn.
You can edit that from a bus powered drive.
I still prefer the security of a Raid5 setup.
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
Leader, NJFCPUG
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Here are a few things to remember about P2 and HD in general.
DVCProHD is not data intensive on the processor or the drives. You do not need a raid system to edit DVCProHD.
AVC-Intra is a different animal. If you plan to work with this format, you will want the fastest processors and a fast disk system (raid 0).
I prefer to use raid 5 for my scratch disks to prevent a drive failure from shutting me down. With the hardware raid option now available from Apple, this is quite easy to do inside the tower.
You did not mention tape backup, but I would strongly suggest DLT or LTO drives from Quantum that support MXF data. Hard drives are great for short term storage, but not for long term archive.
Bluray is a consideration for backup. I do use a bluray burner and toast to archive smaller jobs. The problem is the speed (lack of) and capacity (46gigs on dual layer).
If you want to author bluray discs, you will need CS3 Production, as Encore is the only package for Mac to author bluray.
Kona 3 is great card for input and output. I use it for doing real time down converts to SD. Consider the IO HD if you need SD and HD capture.
Hope this helps.
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
Leader, NJFCPUG
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Very easy to do with some caveats.
FCP does not support P2 metadata. You will need to use Raylight.
Here is the abbreviated version…
Use P2 CMS (free download from Panasonic) to create user metadata files.
Create the metadata and save to sd card. Turn on metadata in the camera and load metadata on each new scene.
The field “User Clip Name” is auto incrementing. Use that for takes. Use “Program Name” for the scene #’s.
Create one file for each scene and/or camera. If you use raylight, it will create folders based on scenes.
Read my whitepaper on P2-FCP workflows on Panasonic’s website for more details.
Hope this helps,
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
Leader, NJFCPUG
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The sd card needs to be formatted in the camera. The update file that you download needs to be placed in the directory FW
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
Leader, NJFCPUG
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It has to do with the physical way the cards mount. In a laptop with cardbus slot or the Duel Adapter, the cards are treated as volumes, and retain the generic volume name and icon. Via USB or firewire, they are mounted differently and that data doesn’t translate.
BTW, If you use the free Panasonic utility “P2 Formatter’ for Mac, you can format the card with a proper name that will show up on the desktop no matter which method you choose to mount the cards.
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Art Aldrich
OTEK TV
Leader, NJFCPUG
http://www.njfcpug.org -
Interesting to hear everyone’s variations on the metadata workflow.
I have setup the P2 workflow for the Iditarod since they went P2. This year they used metadata and edited mxf with FCP.
We used P2 CMS to create the metadata files. We identified the 24 checkpoints in the Scenario field, and saved 24 unique files to each shooters sd cards. In the mac finder, we named MTDT01.P2 as something more logical, like mcgrath.p2 and loaded these in to the camera.
We archived the cards each day with HD Log Pro. This allowed for consectutive card offloading and multiple destinations.
One the cards were saved, P2 CMS was used to clean up any metadata fields, like when a shooter missed a metadata change.
Art Aldrich
OTEV.TVIn P2 CMS you can change metadata for every clip or selected clips at the same time.
Once the metadata was correct, we ran Raylight on the files.
Raylight has a cool feature where it will make bins based on the Program Name (Scenario).
This created bins for all the checkpoints automatically. Saved a lot of time in the edit!
The Raylight folder was copied from Users>Shared to the drive with the mxf files. Then the raylight folder was imported into fcp.
No need to have raylight on the other systems as long as the initial path doesn’t change.
I do find it handy though to have multiple licenses, in case I need to tweak the metadata and re-scan.
Hope this helps,