Bill Bilowit
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Regarding ingest of AVCHD folder, Jeremy said:
“1)make sure you have the codecs/drivers from Panasonic:
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/support/software_downloads.asp“
Hi Jeremy, I’m having some trouble myself with this, and it’s not Perian or fxfactory. So on the link above, what software relates to AVCHD, other than a P2 transcoder for Windows?
Thanks…
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The better term of what we need is probably crash-cam, as Noah pointed out above.
In the paradigm of small-scale documentary, for some of us the main camera is the HVX200 or similar $5-7K unit, and b-roll / nook and cranny stuff uses one or more palmcorder size HDV. These little guys work well for that stuff, but our issue is integrating clips into a 23.98 timeline.
The HV20 performed fine for shooting, it was the 24p problem we had that turned us off. Plus, tapeless is better for us now.
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About those Panny camcorders– what about the HDC-SD9 / HDC-HS9 model, which has 24p in the spec?
Do you think the method used in their recording and a workflow to FCS2 might get me to a 24 timeline without stuttering nasties?
I don’t expect stellar image quality but I do want to match the 24 motion of my main camera shots.
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Thanks for response, very good info. And I realize “b-camera” is the wrong term, sorry. It’s more about the form factor– a crash-cam may be more what I’m talking about.
I know 24 frames from my HVX200 will look better than a crash-cam’s, but the context of the shots are very different. This is mostly for documentary work and there are places and situations where a 200 simply won’t work out, small as it is.
I don’t really understand why the 24p modes of these little 60i cameras is an iffy compromise if their frames are flagged and my post app has established workflows to extract those frames for my 24p timeline. But I’m sure there’s a reason!
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Would love to– and get the free card too– but we need a palmcorder form factor. Plus, our budget is in the 1-1.5K neighborhood.
This is for those shots where the camera is bungeed to a lightpole, swung or a rope, taped to a 2×4, and walked through a teeming crowd.
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My dual-2.5 G5 had quirks when processing anything much more than playback for the small bit of HDV we did. Rendering from a timeline to another compressed codec is certainly a workout. Better also to export as Current Settings, then quit Final Cut, and use Compressor to convert the native settings Quicktime you created.
My recent MBPro handles HDV much better, but I always try to get HDV projects out of GOP workflows.
For HDV work, better to capture as an intra-frame codec which is far less taxing on the system for subsequent editing and rendering out to other codecs.
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You are adding on to a rather old thread on the forum. Suggest you start a new one so it appears right at the top of the heap. Also, make the subject more about the issue of the JPEG problem, and specify the format of 24p sequence you are working with.
There will be responders who know much more than I and can probably help!
Cheers…
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Speed is good! Walter mentions in this thread he uses a FastMac internal and a standalone 2-burner replicator.
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We have gone about 75% tapeless, and for all its thrilling production convenience there is certainly the added inconvenience of archiving huge amounts of file data.
LTO is expensive, Blu-ray has too little capacity, and cheaper methods are slow and less reliable (as always). As tapeless production workflow expands, users demand more affordable and faster archiving solutions. Market forces in this business usually always capitalize on growing demands.
Meanwhile it’s a balance between front-end workflow productivity / efficiency, and back-end job revision likelihoods / archiving. For the jobs with limited budgets, the front end gets the most attention.
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You are saying that for you, DVD-R is not reliable; details please! What media did you use? Speed at which you burned? Verified or not?
Maybe I’ve been lucky but I’ve not had a problem. I use high rated media, burn a little slower, wait for verification. It takes longer but I use a spare Mac w/ external burner and I don’t sit there and watch it. The killer issue these days I think is capacity; longevity will always be in question until we get a few decades into the issue.