Harry
Forum Replies Created
-
1. You CANNOT offload to a USB drive. There is no USB port on the camera. They changed it to firewire.
2. You CAN offload to a firewire drive — the camera just sees the firewire drive as lots of little P2 storage cards.
3. You CANNOT shoot and record to a firewire (or USB) drive directly — you will have to wait for the Firestore thing in March.
4. You CAN shoot and record directly to a computer using the firewire output from the camera if you use an NLE like FCP — you just feed the camera’s firewire output into your computer and hit “record” on your NLE.
This is information that I have, over the past couple of months, extracted directly from Jan at Panasonic.
And I am number 16 on the waiting list at Birns and Sawyer in Holywood, having plunked down a deposit.
So there!!
Enough speculation, folks — for I am …
Hiawatha DeLorean, Duke of Mulholland.
Fear me! I bite.
-
You can get a 10% discount on G-Raid Drives through LA Fincal Cut Pro Users group.
Best
Harry.
-
Barry,
Thanks for the info. I’ll hope for real-time and perhaps I’ll be pleasantly surprised, then.
Best
Harry
Harry Bromley-Davenport
-
10/11/05
Hey Ron,
You WILL be able to record the data streaming from the Firewire output of the camera by hooking it up to Final Cut Pro or another NLE and a laptop or computer firewire port. I checked this some weeks ago with Jan. And, yes, there are battery driven external firewire drives available. It will be a bit of a bore having to put the NLE into record etc but you sound like the kind of enterprising feller who would tackle this for long form projects. You will NOT need P2 cards for this operation and the computer will ingest it direct via Firewire.
So there. And, I repeat, I had an exchange of emails with Jan about this. I quote:
(Harry to Jan)> ” … But the p2 recording process is expensive and kinda
unsuitable for shooting feature films because of the
limited time/space on the cards, the need to offload
from the camera every few takes and, of course, cost.
I’d like to record straight out of the firewire port
“live” onto a laptop Mac running, say Final Cut Pro.(Jan C.) Hi Harry. This will work. Just know that the stop/start button is on the Capture
Now window.(Harry) >We will be shooting 1080 24P.
(Jan) You will be ingesting at 1080/60i with a 2:3:3:2 pull down removal.
(Harry) >Is this feasible, or am I mad?
(Jan) This will work.
(Harry)>Is the firewire output from the camera active and fast
enough?
(Jan) Of course.And in a later email Jan says “…Should be able to play out or transfer to a FCP 5.0, Avid Express Pro ”
Best
Harry.
-
How long per gig/per minute do you guys reckon it would take to do the camera to drive firewire transfer/backups?
I put in my order and deposit a week ago, by the way. I’m told that I am number 16 on the Birns and Sawyer Hollywood waiting list.
Best
Harry
-
Thank you Jan. No bugging – I promise.
love
Harry.
-
What is Apple/Jobs supporting in this fracas?
-
1. Don’t kill yourself photographing this thing. I agree with Kalunga Lima (above) There are loads of DPs out there with their own gear who will shoot for you for food and water and the feature credit.
2. Forget the “out to film” until that distribution deal comes knocking.
3. These adaptors for using prime lenses are all very well, but you lose about 2 stops of light, and that’s going to affect your setup time (more light needed) and focus pulling too. Having a shallow depth of field may look nice, and “35mm-ish” but you pay the price in the possibility that your assistant cameraperson may not be the greatest focus puller in the world AND the fact that stills lenses have difficulty maintaining sharpness during a focus-pull. You are asking for problems.
4. I’ve done this before.
Best
Harry.
-
Thanks very much fot the explanation and reply.
With thanks,
Harry
Harry Bromley-Davenport
-
Can anyone help me decypher the lux reading given above? What, in film ASA sensitivity, is F8 at 2000 lux?
Many thanks,
Harry
Harry Bromley-Davenport