[David Garcia]

Bravo Imagine.

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[David Garcia]

Same here. Tons of that footage and no dropped frames.

David

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[David Garcia]

When I’m shooting in the field, There is no computer anywhere nearby, unless I have the luxury of doing a “cinema style shoot” where we are lighting etc.
Usually the P2 store is on my belt and I barely have enough time to switch cards and reformat (in P2 store.) True we are working with 4 gig cards. Forget about in camera formatting and naming cards etc. I don’t have the time when I need to keep coverage.

If there is a way to have the P2 partitions on the store named, I am dying to know. From my experience, the P2 partitions on the Store are uneditable and locked.

On the issue of backing up to DVDs, I don’t understand how it could be considered less cumbersome to copy footage to a hard drive (When I’m not sure I’m even going to use it) then copy it to a DVD. That’s copying twice. When you come back to the office after shooting all day and have a hard drive with 60gigs of material that you can’t even review, you don’t want to copy it twice and there is no way to make decisions about what not to keep. Please tell me I’m missing something here. I want to find a better way.

I’m really hoping P2 genie can address som of this stuff. HDLOG could work well with P2 genie, but it costs 3/4 of what you pay for the entire Final Cut Studio.

I guess I’m just hoping that someone at Panasonic and/or Apple is listening to a loyal customer.

David

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[David Garcia]

We’re getting a little off topic here, but…

From my tests, copying to DVD is the fastest way to get the footage in a box. I have a 1.25 TB Lacie esata and copying from the P2 store to it takes longer than burning on my powerbook over the network. Not to mention, if I’m not going to edit this stuff right away, why do I want: A-to put it on a hard drive or B-to copy it twice (once to hard drive then to DVD.)

I’m doing what I’m doing because it’s fastest and most efficient for us. I appreciate the friendly advice though. I will definitely take another look at our process.

I still want an affordable P2 viewer for Mac.

David

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[David Garcia]

Once again,

I love the HVX. And HD log looks pretty good. But $700 is too steep for what is basically a utility.

I just want to respond to a few things here:

The workflow with P2 on MAC is not smooth as silk. It is frighteningly unpredictable. When I mount a P2 store (which I consider to be the only way to shoot with this camera in the field) The volumes all say no name. Sometimes they mount in different orders. My work flow is to back these partitions up to DVD immediately. Unfortunately it has to be done over a network because if I try to back up on a machine which the P2 store is plugged into, the dvd only sees the first partition, regardless of what “NO_NAME” partition I copy from. The chances of missing Data here are way too high.

Additionaly, not being able to view these files upon placing the DVD into the drive is downright dumb. It makes logging of information without putting the video on a hard disk impossible. This is not a convenient way to work. Copying to hard drive is not that much faster than digitizing, and at least digitizing I get to review the material in process.

This is something Panasonic needs to remedy. We need an affordable Viewer for Mac. For the sake of P2 as a format. I invested in this cool format. I like it. I LIKE THE CAMERA and DVCPROHD. I fear if Panasonic doesn’t get it’s act together P2 will die and those of us who invested in it will be left with a dead unsupported format. I’m not trying to be a doomsayer, It’s just the gut feeling I started to get watching an Apple rep demonstrate the elegant workflow of XDCAM at NAB.

A humble videographer and graphic artist,

David

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[David Garcia]

We are running this very system. BTLH 1700W, Kona LH, and HVX. The Card works great. Whenever I sit down to work it’s like I’m coming to my sanctuary of peaceful video editing.

We are also using a P2 store on the ingest end which I would recomend if you have the budget.

David

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[David Garcia]

I’m going to check this stuff out. The issue is not the file or the timeline. The clips are inn sync, the audio just wanders on playback. I wound up using compressor and DVD studio pro to author the DVD, but it took 5 hours instead of the hour and a half it should have.

The AJA guy said my ESATA hard drive might not be fast enough. That would be a drag.

thanks for the advice.

David

[David Garcia]

i’m still finding the bugs on my G5

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[David Garcia]

This is definitely not the norm. I am importing from my P2 store into FCP and it moves pretty quick. For archiving, I’m burning 4gig DVDs right off the store and am getting the performance I would expect from the P2 store.

I know for my mac to even see the store, it has to be mac formatted, which involves holding down the cancel, batt, and HDD CAP buttons at the same time. I don’t think you want tot do this with footage loaded though.

For what it’s worth, we are not seeing the speed issue.

David

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[David Garcia]

I ran a quick test on this (it’s in the thread above) and it’s ddefinitely not hte P2.

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm