Barry Green
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16s are out but have been in very short supply. Call around now though, several dealers are reporting that they have some in stock.
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I don’t know why it’s that slow either, but that’s not right or normal. Keep looking for the cause.
On my WinXP laptop a 16GB card takes about 8:30 to transfer. On a proper modern system you should never get slower than 1min/gb, and you should be getting more like 2gb/min.
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What if anything, can cause damage to a P2 card? Magnets, extreme heat or cold, etc?[/quote]
A sledgehammer might do it.Short of that, nothing I’ve been able to throw at it. I’ve had ’em in 115-degree 90% humidity, I’ve used ’em in the arctic, I’ve had ’em in the desert. They’re heat-proof, dust-proof, humidity-proof, shock-proof, g-force-proof, snow-proof, and probably waterproof too. I’ve dropped ’em on the ground and dragged ’em across the carpet trying to cause static electricity; no effect. I’ve rubbed ’em on CRT monitors, put ’em near loudspeakers, put ’em near magnets… nothing affects ’em. I’ve seen footage of them used at the South Pole, I know we had 150 of them up in the Arctic for 1100 miles from Anchorage to Nome, and I’ve seen ’em be used in Death Valley. I’ve talked to shooters from NDTV who’ve shot with ’em during monsoons in India.
[rick.pearl] “Once a video is imported from a P2 card and encoded on some format, is metadata about the camera that it was recorded on still somehow retrievable? We ae going to be using multiple HVXs and am just curious if it will track this info by serial # or some other identifier?”
The metadata records the serial number of the camera that recorded the clip, yes. The name of the manufacturer, the exact model number, and the serial number, are all embedded in the metadata. As long as you keep your original MXF files directly from the card, you’ll always have that metadata available to you.
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[Barry Green] “Nobody’s saying not to back it up! But do you really want to take that step before you can even start working with your footage?”
Man, I wish we could edit posts. What I meant to say was:
But do you really want to BE FORCED TO take that step before you can even start working with your footage?
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Nobody’s saying not to back it up! But do you really want to take that step before you can even start working with your footage?
I can see why someone may choose to work that way, but why would you want to be bound to that? With edit-ready you could still execute a backup before working with your footage, but you don’t have to. With the FCP implementation, you HAVE to. Seems very limiting, and unnecessarily so.
It reminds me of the argument we used to have over hardware-codec editing boards vs. software-only (I mean, back when every transition needed to be “rendered” before it could even be viewed, so Matrox and Canopus came out with real-time hardware boards.) Back in the old days people actually used to argue that rendering was a “good thing” because it gave ’em time to get up, stretch their legs, go for a coffee break, etc(!) Simple fact is, we all now demand 100% pure realtime at all times and rendering is viewed as a huge and irritating obstacle.
So it will be with the concepts of “importing” and “ingesting” and “digitizing” and “capturing”. It’s an unnecessary impediment to the workflow already, it can be eliminated completely.
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Yes, all three options are valid.
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Put the HVX in the same recording format as the FCP timeline is set to, put it in MCR mode, and turn off the thumbnail display.
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[Mitch Ives] “I’d be interested in hearing what limitations you’ve discovered. I use it every single day without any issues (it’s never failed to work) and fail to see any limitations.”
The limitations are 1) it throws away the metadata, 2) you can’t keep the files in a cross-compatible file format (i.e., the Quicktimes can’t be used on Windows systems at least without additional software), 3) you require double the storage space, and 4) you cannot edit directly from the footage as it was intended.
If you’ve got 600GB of P2 MXF files offloaded onto hard disks, you’re going to have to convert all those files (and have another 600GB worth of hard disks). That isn’t necessary; Raylight gets you around that completely.
Whether you find those limitations to limit your workflow, that’s something you would answer for yourself. But they are limitations that FCP imposes on you because of the way they’ve chosen to implement their MXF support.
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Hey, I’m all for the eradication of 60i as soon as possible! 720/60p for HD beats 1080/60i all day long.
But 30p? Odd choice. Hey, if people like it, there’s nothing actually wrong with it, it just limits your post options — you can’t reasonably transfer 30p to film or to PAL format. But short of that, it’s a sort of hybrid film/video look.
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It’s now called “Log & Transfer.”
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