Blub06
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Had to say it.
Chris
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Your right, Avid is cluncy, and a little too old school, as I said I prefer FCP. FCP to quote myself, is a next generation editing system, in other words, better.
Chris
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Interesting. I think one of your problems, and I am being serious here, is that you did not spend eight years or more doing Avid all day everyday. I too bounce back and forth between the two and have not yet had too much of a problem. When I do a long Avid project after a long FCP project I find myself looking at the interface/work flow sort of outside myself and I understand the thing and why it works as it does. The big message it tells me is that it (AVID) thinks that in order to get things done reliably and repeatable you MUST do things its way and its way is rigid and absolute. You have to appreciate what they are doing, they are putting you on a track that you must not get off in order to do your work. Sometimes this gives you a warm feeling, maybe it a feeling a deep familiarity. Whichever, its good. Certainly I feel like I can roar at supersonic speed and have no fear of falling off because I follow the guide rails I
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Has anyone actualy seen any footage shot with this camera? Any thoughts about the results?
Chris
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I think the advent of DV streams, MPEG, DVDs and the internet has created a world where bits are the norm for some and not so for others. I was (until a few days ago) uninformed not ill. I think my thoughts were helpful regarding the question.
Although I understand the use of bits vs. bytes I still regret both of them intermingling in post. The camera, DVD and internet people have their needs and uses, post (as in SD, HD) has a different bunch of needs, which I am more familiar with.
Chris
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He he he, your not allowed to say such stuff here…
Better duck!
Your right P2 is dumb, but its really just a strange side show, the camera is the thing, and its final image quality. Who knows what that will be, I guess by the end of the year we will know.
By the way, a 60 gig drive, which is my preferred solution to this P2 joke, will hold about 80 minutes of 1080p footage, if all the figures I have been reading are real, i.e., 12.5 megs per second data rate. That solves all my problems.
PS: I don’t do bits.
Chris
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Apple and Panasonic have recently worked very closely to get FCP and their DVCProHD systems to work seamlessly. I imagine they are at it again with respect to P2. The camera comes out in 6 months, plenty of time to get P2 and FCP5 up to speed.
Regarding drive speed, etc, I learned from the P2 forum that for some crazy reason the term megabytes has been supplanted with megabits. 8 bits to a byte. I have no idea why this has suddenly happened but there it is. For ever we have talk in megabytes now it has changed, it probably has something to do with a PR turn that some company thinks makes their equipment seem more capable. More taste less fat, etc. The short hand here is 100 Mbps is about 12.5 megabytes per second. Most any 7200 rpm drive will do that over Firewire.
Chris
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Right on! How far away can 5.1 be?
Chris
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You said you selected it, the clip, did you do this from the time line, was the clip on the time line when you selected it?
If so, don
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I had a post lower in this subject (P2) tree which cleared up some skepticisms I had on the new Pan Camera. As far as P2, love the idea hate the cost. I was told below that an external HD record option was a reality so I am sold, on the new camera. The HD option gives me the same end result. If I want to just plug the thing in an cut right away, its right there for me.
Archiving is a different issue, with an external HD at a reasonable cost its a no brainier, and I got one of them!!
I looked at the Sony Z1 and at first it looked just too fantastic, then after a few times playing with it it became obvious to me that the long GOP HDV thing was a MAJOR problem for me. MAJOR. Its kind of tragic but I have to look out for the best option at a price and if the new camera stays away from long GOP MPEG, which I think the DVCPro HD does stay away from, I smell killer camera.
Now all I have to do is drop 25 years and the world would seem to be open to all my imagination, at a reasonable price no less!
Chris