Gabriel
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The only use I see for the proxy is for PDA viewing and for internet or satellite phone file transfer to the station (from where other links are not available). For editing purposes, prroxy isn’t necessary, IMHO.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
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[Randall3] “They could pop it in their laptop and watch the day’s shooting. If they keep it or lose it, bill them! I think the proxy encoding is pure genius.”
You don’t have to hand the P2 card, you can write the proxy to a normal SD card when shooting. You can view that on an average PDA with a SD slot.Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
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[toke lahti] “Yep, with one quarter of the color tones that you get with digibeta…”
Wrong, DVCPRO50 has the same colour space as digibeta.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
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Also, the SPX800 has a single filter wheel (ND+CC) whereas SDX900 has two separate ones. There is a SPX900 version with two filter wheels, but I don’t know if it is available in US. There’s another improvement with the SPX series compared to SDX – DSP processing is done on 14 bits compared to 12. Otherwise the cameras and general menu strucure is identical.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
VFR recording only to P2 cards, but internal downconversion to mini DV tape is possible, even from nonstandard frame rates. In other words, you can shoot for instance at 36fps and slow down to 30fps on the tape. I don’t know if it will be possible to do it to 24fps, but it would be a nice feature.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
D5 is a tape format. D4 is a connector. Basically it carries YUV HD analogue plus some ID signals. Commonly, you will use only the YUV signals which can be pluuged into a HD capable device (tape deck, monitor etc). Here’s a link to the pinout: https://www.gamesx.com/avpinouts/jdcon.htm
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
Same line/pixel count. Only difference is 50/25 for PAL compatibility over 24/30/60for NTSC world.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
Yep, we stock them too, but the dark grey ones. They come in a kit with a coffee maker and vacuum cleaner. Our ad shows a bunch of girls though (wearing pants, for obvious reasons…)
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
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Around 4 minutes via USB2 and on a fast storage (raid or scsi) for 4 GB P2 card.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
Wrong, Jan, the only problem is people can’t get their thinking out of the square. You DON’T need 3 or 5 or 100 hours on P2. It’s like saying that you need 1TB of memory (RAM, not HDD) for your PC because running all your software you have installed will need that much. All you need is enough to be able not to swap/empty cards every other scene you shoot. Remember, this is the worse situation sizewise, things can only improve.
Best,
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd