Brian Deviteri
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I have a 2.0ghz Centrino (Pentium-M) with 1gb RAM, 60gb 7200rpm system drive, 128mb ATI graphics, 1680×1050 15.4″ widescreen… I use Maxtor 250gb external drives for editing and an ADS Tech PYRO AV Link for SD real-time previews to an external TV monitor.
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I’ve heard from other sites that the holographic drive in the USA will cost over $5000 next year and we will not see a price drop until the 300GB discs arrive sometime in 2007 or 2008. I’ve also heard that the write speed is less than 4x DVD speed and that is a major area they are trying to overcome.
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I too tried the SDK and no luck. I also tried modifying the metafile I get out of Premiere when I encode through the Adobe media encoder and no luck with that either. Hopefully someone can come up with something for a workaround.
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have you used or are you experienced with Photoshop or any other Adobe products at all? what type of work will you be doing and how are you shooting your footage (camera, format, etc)?
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you could have the client pay for all the P2 cards and keep them all… it’s an option… or else maybe a P2 store drive. they can have digital copies of all the files in their hands at the end of a shoot and you can keep copies too.
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doing the math, does 1080/24p have the same rate as 1080/30p? doesn’t make sense if it does…
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Personally I am not even considering HDV as a solution for low-cost HD production. I’m not exactly confident in the fact that it is writing an MPEG-2 to tape… just one of my major concerns with HDV. That is why I am looking at other options.
Like many people, I am considering the HVX200 as a viable option, but I have to look at my budget. Originally, that is what led me to this first post. I wanted to know what recording times I could get on the P2 cards using different frame rates and different frame sizes and how much “memory” per minute I would be using for each flavor of the DVCPRO HD format. I am looking into less expensive options for field recording and archiving my data files. The Firestore-style solutions might work temporarily until the P2 card prices come down, but I’m still searching for workflow options without the Firestore. I like the idea of recording to a laptop or directly to an external hard drive, but I’d really like to see the camera act as the computer without needing the Firestore. Personally, I doubt I’ll be able to afford more than two of the 8GB P2 cards (if I can even get that) until the price comes down drastically (hopefully in about a year). I get the feeling a lot of people are in the same boat I am in – how do you make this work within your budget?
I think we are all trying to make this work because we all see this camera as a real solution, but we are all used to the very cheap costs of tape. Even regular DVCPRO tape is pretty cheap and it’s achievable, something that we are all thinking about now as well. The LTO option right now seems like the cheapest alternative to purchasing a lot of hard drives, but the cheapest drive is over $5000.
If the camera lives up to all of the hype and the specs on paper, I will eventually be getting one. I just need to work out all of the other details before I do that.
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Maybe we should post an FAQ with all of your answers? 🙂
I think I remember reading awhile back from a lot of people that said this camera should be able to send the command out to record to any firewire drive because it is based on a Linux operating system, but it looks as if that is no longer the case. Unfortunately for the people questioning a “cheaper” alternative to the P2 cards, it does not look they will have an option outside of a 3rd party partner solution. Hopefully the Focus Enhancement people will come up with a cheaper solution or else someone can find a way to adapt a PCMCIA (PC Card) external hard drive to work as a really large P2 card… Granted, this would only work for studio style shooting or event coverage with a tripod, but at least it could satisfy some people’s needs.
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thanks for the formula, that will help tremendously!
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Not to throw fuel on this fire, but I work with DVCPRO a lot. A client of mine uses a lot of Panasonic AJ-D450 decks (yes, the ones without firewire) to record a lot of event video. Generally there are no “stops” or pauses while recording and they use 2-hour loads to record about 8-12 hours per day to two separate decks. They are now using 1-pass and 2-pass tapes to record in the field and I have to say I am EXTREMELY surprised there has not been any dropout on these tapes. An engineer told me that you can probably easily get 4-5 passes on the tapes (with this style of “dub” recording) but recommended no more than 3-4 at most. So the tape is definitely reusable, but to what extent for sure, can anyone really say with absolute certainty?