Barry Green
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[Skelmose TV] “dont know if it can read p2 but why not ?”
Because if it can’t, you may not be able to get your card out of it.
16-bit PCMCIA has a smooth connector. 32-bit PCMCIA/CardBus adds raised dots on the connector; designed to prevent you from putting a 32-bit card in a 16-bit reader. If you do, and you force it in, you won’t be able to get the card back out, at least not without destroying the reader. P2 requires a 32-bit reader, and that’s the device that we’ve been having trouble finding.
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To tape, yes. But to the P2 card (or firestore or cineporter or direct to computer) it shoots SD in DVCPRO50 at 4:2:2, which is substantially superior for greenscreen. And it always shoots 4:2:2 in high-def.
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I haven’t tried it on the Mac. But I have been able to do it on the Avid on the PC. And yes, that means you can do what you suggest — print back to the card, take it into a facility and dub through analog to their decks.
Gary, did you turn off the thumbnail screen? You have to be in MCR mode, and turn the thumbnails off. Then you can see the firewire input playing on the LCD, and use the two record buttons to record that incoming stream.
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I have streamed footage from one HVX to another, and it works fine.
I have also output HD footage via firewire from an Avid system into the HVX, and told the HVX to record it onto its cards — that worked fine too.
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Sound is recorded at the native frame rate, but not at undercrank/overcrank speeds. So if you shoot 720/24pN at 24fps, yes sound is recorded. If you shoot 720/24pN at 26fps, no sound gets recorded. It has to be shot at the same frame rate as the underylying timebase in order for audio to be recorded.
So if you shot 720/24pN at 30fps, no sound. If you shot 720/30pN at 30ps, yes sound.
If you shot 720/30pN at 24fps, no sound. Has to be at the same frame rate as the timebase.As far as firewire streaming, the “n” modes do not stream over the firewire. Only the “over 60” modes do.
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No, partitions can be any size. Windows XP limits FAT32 to 32gb partitions, but in actuality FAT32 can go to 2 terabytes of size per partition.
What I was referring to is a maximum file size of 4gb. It’s my understanding that FAT32 limits file sizes to 4GB, so if you use an 8GB card it would be possible to exceed that file size limit. As far as I know, the camera in that case would actually split the clip and create two “spanned” clips, using the metadata to link them together. So you’d still only have one partition, but for clips longer than 4GB you’d find two files in that partition, with the metadata linking the files together into one contiguous clip.
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I haven’t had an opportunity to test it with 8gb cards yet so I don’t know what happens in that circumstance. I’m pretty sure the camera would take care of splitting files into 4GB maximum file sizes and linking clips together, which would keep everything FAT32-compliant, but I don’t know for sure.
You don’t have to offload the firewire drive until it’s full, either of partitions (15 max) or of data space. The camera will keep allocating partitions and offloading new cards until it either runs out of space, or runs out of available partitions.
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You can do something like this on the HVX. I don’t recall if the SPX800 can do it or not, but I’m certain it can.
I’ll describe the process on the HVX200, it should be similar for the SPX800.
What you can do won’t change the clip’s actual name, but you can attach your own name to the clip metadata through the SD card (when recording) or through the P2 Viewer (after recording). If you want to add a file to the SD card so that every clip you create automatically has the custom name attached, you’d use the P2 Viewer software to create a clip metadata file, and assign the name you want (i.e., “interview-MrX”) into the User Clip Name field of the metadata. Then save that file to the SD card. Plug the SD card into the camera, and go into the menus and make sure that you load the metadata file from the card. Also, go into the metadata->record menu and choose “on”, so that it will know to attach your custom metadata to all clips recorded from that point forward.
So now, when you hit “record”, it’ll attach the name “interview-MrX” to every clip recorded from that time forward. When you go on to the next interview subject, you’d change the filename in the P2 Viewer program and re-save it on the SD card, and re-load that new file into the camera.
The metadata records all sorts of fields — shoot date, timecode, the person shooting, the user clip name, a descriptive text memo of the shot, the serial number of the camera that shot the shot, the gps coordinates of where the shoot took place (if you have a GPS card for the SPX)… all sorts of stuff. That all gets recorded on the P2 card in the “CLIP” directory, in the .XML file. So to locate all interview clips named “interview-MrX”, you’d search the CLIP directory for all XML files containing “interview-MrX”. Some of these fields are generated by the camera, but you can set a lot of them yourself and have them automatically attached. You can have it assign a custom clip name, the name of the clip creator, the last person to update the clip, the name of the shoot, the shoot place, you can name the “scenario” (i.e., “scene 4/living room” or whatever), and there’s also space for a general-purpose text memo.
I don’t know how thoroughly NLE programs have integrated the MXF metadata information; obviously there’s a lot that could be integrated. It seems like a fairly trivial programming task to implement a P2 Rename function, one which would allow you to specify a filename and the P2 Rename utility would go out and rename all the associated files (the video, audio, icon, xml, etc) and write the new name into the metadata XML file.
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The FS-100 is actually 100 gigs.
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Not Bob, but I can answer from experience. Any drive to be used by the camera to offload cards must be first formatted by the camera before being used. This is a nearly instantaneous operation, but it’s also one reason why I urge caution for people wanting to use ipods! Formatting involves erasing all partitions on the hard disk. The drive then consists of a large unallocated, unformatted pool of space. Each card you offload results in the camera allocating a new partition out of that space, and copying the card contents over.
The partitions the camera creates are FAT32, which are compatible with PCs and Macs.
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