Barry Green
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Few PC laptops (if any) include FW800 as standard, so you’d probably need to find one with both ExpressCard and PCMCIA slots so you could put an ExpressCard->FW800 adapter in the ExpressCard slot in order to connect to your FW800 drives.
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Apparently the drivers for Vista 32-bit are available, but not yet for Vista 64-bit. They say they’re coming, but no date has been given yet.
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External PCMCIA to USB adapters won’t work, Shane’s right on that. But a PCI slot adapter should work, as long as you’re using Windows. Haven’t found an adapter that has drivers for MacOS yet.
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It’s not the “new VariCam” because there’s no variable frame rates. It does offer the Film Rec mode and every filmlike gamma panasonic’s ever offered, but no variable frame rates at all. It’s more like Panasonic’s answer to the F950.
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[Shane Ross] “Avid, Edius and a few others support native MXF editing”
Avid, Premiere Pro (any day now with the CS3 update), EDIUS, SpeedEdit, Liquid, and Vegas (through Raylight) all support native MXF editing. So it’s not just “a few others”, it’s actually basically every NLE on the market with any manner of pretensions to being a professional editor. FCP’s the only one not playing along, but with Raylight you can get it there too. And presumably they’ll add support someday…
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All new formats start slow; it’s up to the NLE companies to implement support.
From what I understand, Apple has publicly shown AVC-Intra footage being imported to ProRes at several events, so it seems reasonable to expect that the update will be introduced soon. But no date has been given.
I believe EDIUS supports it already with some manner of add-on component.
Migrating to a new format is never easy. The JVC HD1 was out for over two years before FCP and Avid added support for it. The FX1 was out for about 7 months before you could edit footage from it. Heck, unless I’m mistaken you *still* can’t edit 24P footage from the JVC HD100 in Avid, and it’s been out for over two years, close to two and a half years.
No doubt AVC-Intra will be a stellar format. But if you leap in on the bleeding edge of the curve, expect it to hurt for a while.
And no, as far as I can gather the P2 Gear (HPG10) won’t support AVC-Intra.
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There’s nothing wrong with the files, obviously, but there’s something not set right with FCP. I’m sure some FCP expert will weigh in and tell you how to do it, but otherwise you could just get Raylight and it’d all work and you could skip the import process entirely too.
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No, because the HPX2000 doesn’t have variable frame rates.
I don’t think it offers the film rec mode either.
The HPX2000 is a P2 version of the HDX900, not a P2 version of the VariCam.
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As for Panasonic products: any of the cameras can be used as a reader, and the P2 Mobile and P2 Gear can be used as a reader, and the PCD20 and P2 Store can be used as slot readers too.
For non-Panasonic products, there are PCMCIA->ExpressCard adapters for laptops from Duel Systems ($119) and Addonics ($69). And there are PCMCIA->PCI adapters available from many manufacturers for $75 – $150, but I don’t know of any with Mac drivers.
For an iMac, you don’t have slots, so the PCMCIA->PCI adapter wouldn’t be an option, and no ExpressCard slot means the cheap Duel and Addonics adapters are ruled out too. Your options are USB or Firewire/FW800, which means a Panasonic product as in the first category. Of those products, the least expensive is the P2 Store, but that’s USB-only. You’ll get notably better performance from the 5-slot P2 Drive PCD20, using FW800.
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I asked, and the answer is “not yet.” They’re working on it, but right now Vista 32-bit is supported, and it doesn’t work in Vista 64-bit yet.