[David Battistella]

Double click on the jpeg image and put it in the viewer.

In the motion tab go to crop

Try setting all of those numbers to 1 or .5

top
left
right
bottom

this might fix it.

if not.

oopen the image in photoshop and then change the canvas size to a larger size. Fill with the white color and crop it to it’s desired size in FCP.

David

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[David Battistella]

Could there be software written for the ipod to do this. That might be nice.

The whole thing that drives all of these discussions is the price of P2.

If P2 were cheaper most of this threads would evaporate.

david

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[David Battistella]

small correction to the last line

people will buy the HDV or XDCAM because it is “what they know”.

David

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[David Battistella]

Great thread guys.

The thing I thought about was this concept. Lets’ say you did a 40 minute interview onthe P2 cards. You actually have to erase the front half of your interview from the P2 card to make media avaiable for the rest of the interview.

I am not trying to be a fatalist but, you know, what if you finish the interview and realize that the begining didn’t trnasfer properly or something. OK. so you could do the interviews in on the DV tape and upconvert those parts of the show.

I have mentioned this before, but I it would a good idea for Panasonic to “dump” this stuff on the market and make it cheap and avaiable. I know that there is a ton of R&D dollars into this technology, but to make it fly I think a pricing scheme like this would make the format irresistable.

2 gig 100.00
4 gig 200.00
8 gig 400.00

The only way to make P2 make sense is volume. Once the market is secure and people appreciate and trust the technology they will become loyal. At prices like this you would sell for times more cards and. more importantly build a bigger Panasonic customer base.

I love the flat screen computer example. The technolgy was invented by Zenith but the Japanese manufacturers made and sold them at huge losses to corner the market. Zenith decided to keep the price high and were slaughtered. When was the last time you thought of buying a Zenith Flat Panel. Over the long haul the manufacturers made money.

This is an industry that adopts formats and sticks (film, betacam, D-beta have all been around for a quarter century or more and Sony has made a lot of that money). There is something to be learned in all of this.

Put P2 in everybody’s hands at a very reasonable price and people will take it over HDV and disk based stuff for sure. Panasonic wants to recoup in very short order and that is a bad move because people will buy the HVX because it is “what they know”.

David

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[David Battistella]

Hey Guys,

There has been a lot of talk about this stuff on these forums. P2 is really a borrow from peter to pay Paul format. It is designed to take the high tape cost out of ENG NEWS applications. For a single user it make less sense.

P2 is a great concept, but it does not start to pay for itself in smaller production until far down the road. Yes, it is convienient and it allows us to record HD material in a small format camera but we still want an ulitmate back up. Let’s say I shoot an hour of HD on a Varicam. I can have another three or four hours ready to go in the camera bag. I have the shoot tapes, it takes me one hour to trnasfer the tapes, the media is in my machine and the tapes are on the shelf. I have it all, Digital media on my hard drive that I can edit with (sure I wasted an hour of my time to capture it) and a nice backup sitting on the shelf on a tape. At most an hour to recapture it.

Now I have P2. I can’t have as many P2 cards as tapes (because of the huge inital cost of P2 cards) So I have two or three. Great. So let’s say I shoot an hour of P2. I come back to the studio, I have to transfer the contents of the card (let’s say it an half an hour instead of an hour) great I saved a half an hour. Now I wipe the P2 card and the only place that media exists is on my hard drive. Obviously I want a backup of that media becuase if I loos that, I loose my show. So right away I do one of two things. I buy a Firewire drive and make a quick backup of that media OR I burn the media to DVD’s. To burn the media to DVD’s I have to open a toast file (create and burn a disk and verify the disk (BECAUSE IT IS MY ONLY BACKUP) and that might only take a half hour or so.

Geez, we are back up to that hour of digitizing.

Now let’s say I took option A and went to firewire

[David Battistella]

John,

You do have two cards going right. And the problem is that the first card can not be offloaded fast enough to do a continous record of a longer interview or something like that?

Maybe you need to go to a Firestore, (if they record HD yet) or maybe a THIRD p2 card? It seems to me that two cards just aren’t enough for continous recording in 1080 HD. Is that right from what you have seen so far? You can’t get teh media off the P2 card fast enough to rotate them?

David

[David Battistella]

Andreas,

I do this all the time and there is no reason you cannot get continuous TC on the Tape.

1. open edit to tape
2. Select black and code, after the dialog box appears tell FCP what tC you want tothe tape to start at:

I often set the start TC to 00:58:30:00

Let FCP black and code the tape for a minut or two.
rewind the tape.

3.Set an IN tc in edit to tape window (I use 00:58:40:00, one minute of color bar, ten seconds SLATE, ten seconds black and the program starts at :01:00:00:00

4. Drag your timeline over the assemble edit window.

This works.

David

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[David Battistella]

Thanks Jan,

🙂 I figured that. I just got back from shooting a few for more days with my DVX100A and when I look at the stuff (and clients see the stuff) they are always blown away. I am sure the images of the HVX (regardless of the exact pixel count as I am more of a subjective picture type) will be stunning. I almost got a demo on the HVX at Pan canada a few weeks back, but I just missed the camera the day I was there.

I am looking forward to seeing this product, but a little saddened that the new Mac laptops will not have the right card slots. That is a bit of a drag as I have been holding out on the laptop purchase. I’m an FCP user and to have a nice seemless workflow would have been nice.

Thanks for getting into the thread.

David

[David Battistella]

I find it odd that Panasonic has not confirmed or denied anything in this thread. Usally we hear something from them about this. There is a strange silence in this thread.

David

[David Battistella]

What if you select teh clip and use replace.

Or

Maybe you can use “overwrite with transition” if you drag the clip over the canvas window.

David