Barry Green
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If there’s no “video” folder, then yeah, you’re hosed.
You should have six directories. The video clips are stored in the VIDEO folder. If you don’t have the contents of that folder, you don’t have the clips.
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You’re doing something wrong — maybe the ND filter is stuck in or something.
The HVX is a full stop faster than the Sony FX1/Z1U, and over stops faster than the V1U/FX7.
It’s rated at 320 ISO when using the normal gamma, about 250 when using the cine gammas.
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Have you installed the P2 driver?
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1080/30p would be noticeably better than 720/30pN.
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Go into the recording setup menu, choose the TC PRESET option, and press the “TC reset” button inside the LCD panel.
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If that doesn’t work, try downloading the trial versions of P2 Log Pro or Raylight; either one may succeed where FCP didn’t.
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There’s a P2 Store driver for the Mac, but I don’t know that that allows you to upgrade the firmware of the P2 Store. From what I understand, you upgrade the P2 Store itself by using the P2 Store Manager software, and I think (and am not 100% sure about this) that only the Windows version of the P2 Store Manager has the necessary functions to transfer firmware to a P2 Store.
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[Ron Lindeboom] “companies like Sony (especially, as a mega-giant), Panasonic (as a giant)”
That’s the traditional perception, but the curious thing is, if you check the financials, Panasonic is actually quite a bit bigger (by revenues and employees) than Sony is…
Sony had revenues of $54 billion for 2006, Panasonic’s revenues were $76 billion — over 40% higher. You can’t just directly compare them, of course, because a large portion of Sony’s sales come from their movie studio and videogame businesses, to which Panasonic has no comparable line. But Panasonic has a line of home products that Sony doesn’t, either, so a direct comparison of broadcast or electronics isn’t so easy.
Panasonic also has twice as many employees (332,000 vs. 163,000 for Sony). By market capitalization, Sony’s still bigger; Sony is valued at $47 billion, Panasonic at $37 billion. But by any other measure, Panasonic is actually the bigger company.
By comparison, Thomson is about 1/10th the size of the two Japanese conglomerates. But Philips is about the same size as Sony and Panasonic.
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And it *has* to be done from Windows; there’s no way to upgrade a P2 Store from the Mac platform. Unless I’m wrong.
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Premiere Pro 2.0 can edit HVX footage if you get the Raylight plug-in from http://www.dvfilm.com.
Without Raylight (or CineForm or some other plug-in) then no, it cannot. You have to have Raylight.