Gabriel
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Karl,
As Jan said in another post, sorry, NAB.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
Serge, I must point out several mistakes you make: a 4 GB card will hold more than 5 minutes of DVCPROHD. For that matter, 8GB cards will be availble very soon. Downloading the data from a 8GB card to a P2 store will be faster than real time, so You don’t have any downtime. All your footage is ready to be edited – no capturing time. Archiving – you can use DVD discs where you put the raw data (not dvd compression, to make it clear). because it’s a fast and nonlinear process, you can archive only the useful stuff, not everything. Major savings there – instead of puttting a $20 tape on the shelf, you put 4-5 discs worth 75c each. They are far more reliable and small and archiving can be done with a laptop these days – no need for expensive decks. Also, I don’t think a statement from Sony is a valid argument – WHAT would you expect them to say, that P2 is a serious threat for their new round tape format?.. Blu-ray is an archiving/delivery format, not an aquisition one. Other than being non linear, there are no other advantages – you still have to capture, you can’t free up space other than by erasing the whole disc, it’s slow when you want to access anything ele than the proxy, no IT integration, expensive peripherials (players/decks). With P2 all you need is a laptop in the field and maybe a raid1 firewire/usb2 external hdd box, if you don’t trust the p2 store. What you really need is to try and think out of the square and forget that the P2 card is your media. It deservs the same consideration as the memory in your PC – things come and go through there, it only happens that we take it out sometimes (NOT every 5 minutes).
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
Here’s someone who doesn’t understand a basic P2 workflow. Tape is not rock solid. Tape will not last for 30 years. Tape has dropouts. Tape can be chewed by the camera, deck or your dog. Tape is sensitive to all sorts of external conditions (weather, temperature, humidity etc). P2 is not. P2 is everything tape is not. The only thing you have to do is to think out of the square. Flash memory doesn’t get “zapped” by some sort of voodoo magic. And if you are worried about the reliability of your associated hardware, you should buy quality stuff. After all you will save a great deal of money by not being forced to buy a new deck. And service it. Or the camera. And buy tape. As for archiving, who talked about tape? That’s NOT the way of doing it. For more information you’ll have to wait for NAB, you’ll be very surprised. Anyway, we don’t live in a perfect world, you can’t make everyone happy, but if you plan to go to film, you should plan what direction you will take 5-10 years from now…
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
I think (personal opinion, NOT Panasonic statement!) that there will be a version of 1080/24p from a 1080/60i with pulldown – like the 24p of the DVX100. How this will be acheived, I don’t know if/yet. This would be an extremely easy workaround which will allow people to use AJ-HD1200 for instance as a mastering format.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
If you want to master 1080/24p to tape, you can use HD D5, which support basically any format.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd -
AJ-SPX800/900 have 5 slots for P2 cards (as everybody knows) plus one option slot on top (between the radio mic receiver and the handle). Few options here: proxy card on option slot or wireless network card on option slot or wireless card on option slot AND proxy card in P2 slot 5. More to come. P2 cards are compatible with any current model laptop. Other option cards can be considered in the future, but camera software would have to be updated. Personally I don’t think the HVX200 will have an option slot (I don’t know for sure, this is a personal opinion, not a Panasonic official statement) beacuse I don’t beleive there’s enough room in there for one.
Gabriel Costache
Sales Engineer
Panasonic NZ Ltd