James Fortier
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Excellent, it worked, thanks!
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Jan,
Just upgraded from the HPX300 to the HPX370, I tried to load the scene files from my SD Card (downloaded from the Panasonic site at https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/scene_files.asp?model=HPX300) and I keep getting a NG No Files error message. I’m guessing the 370 will not read scene files from an SD Card with HPX300 scene files? If that’s the case, any idea when Panasonic will make custom scene files available for the HPX370 similar to the HPX300 and other P2 Cameras?
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I didn’t seek a hostile, rude, know it all attitude, but thanks anyway.
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Yes I already know that working in ProRes 1920×1080 or 1440×1080 sequence in FCP via Log and transfer of MXF files instead of native AVC setting is the way to go since FCP does not have an AVC 100 or AVC 50 sequence preset, but thanks for confirming that. And yes I have tried some tests, particularly with upscaling 1440×1080 footage into a 1920×1080 sequence and I can clearly see a loss in picture quality. I just let FCP handle the upscaling and render, so if you say it upscales to 1920×1080 just fine then perhaps I’m missing something because the results I get are not acceptable. And based on this I imagine upscaling from 1280×1080 to 1920×1080 would be even worse.
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Interesting, I did not know that, thanks for the tip, I’ll put off buying the additional set of 2GB Memory Sticks then.
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turns out the two 1 GB sticks are labeled as 2 GB but showing up as 1 GB each in the system profiler, so clearly they are defective, I removed them, and so far no more error message, but rendering time still seems slow, I’ll order one more set of 2 GB sticks and max this out at 16 GB evenly spread across both risers, thanks for the feedback.
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Thanks for the response, yeah I’ve looked at some clips on line of footage from the camera with primes and some without, and also some recording to XDR and NanoFlash and the images are impressive. Since the location footage will not be intermixed with “real” 24p footage the 24F factor should not be a problem…we’ll probably use prines for the location interviews but as you said, run and gun verité doc shooting will be difficult with primes and adapters etc. I still do have one big concern using the Canon though, the very subpar viewfinder, I’ll check with the Producer/Director and see if he is budgeting for additional on-camera lightweight HD monitoring, although the camera is already gonna be loaded down if we go with the NanoFlash and the Anton Bauer Brick to power both the camera and the NanoFlash (I believe I saw that set up on one of the various sites with the Canon XLH1 outfitted with the NanoFlash).
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I’m the DP for a reality show pilot that will use up to 5 Canon XLH1 cameras. I’ve used the Canon in the past but my main cameras have not been Canon, in fact I was not really all that thrilled with the Canon because of the lack of true progressive recording and I purchased JVC HD-200 and the Panasonic HPX300 most recently. So, now with this big shoot coming up and being locked into using the Canon XLH1, because they were already purchased by the production company some time ago, I am playing catch up with this camera. I have suggested we use Prime lenses to up the look and to investigate what our options are in terms of recording to Firestore Drives in order to avoid the heavy compression of MPEG2 at 35 Mbps that is required to record to tape. I’ve seen sporadic mention of a NanoFlash drive on some of these forums, so I’d like to know what that is exactly and what out options are in general to improve the performance of these cameras in the HD world.
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So is it possible then to output in real time, live, the cross converted 1080i signal via Component Out using the 2007 HD-200U model, not the B series.
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The HD’s are two 750 GB Seagate SATA 2 Barracuda’s, The Raid is a software raid set up with Disk Utlity.OSX and FCP run off a different internal drive. I bought this MacPro used, so not sure about how the RAID was set up in terms of RAID 0 etc. I email the guy I bought it from and he said this about the problem.
“It’s not the drives. You’re going to need a dedicated hardware RAID card.The bottleneck is in the controller on the motherboard, The drives that are in there now are perfectly fine: same series and spec, but smaller.
A stock computer isn’t going to be able to handle the data throughput
of full HDTV. You’re going to need a dedicated RAID card (Currently
you’re using the HD controller on the motherboard which is a
bottleneck because it’s also accessing the main drive simultaneously).
It’s possible to install a raid peripheral card and run the data
cables to the internal drives in lieu of the internal data connectors.I have a Sonet Tempo E4P card and an external drive case with 2X 750
GB Seagates. HDTV 1080 8 bit YUV 422 readings are Read 178.7 Write
176.7 to give me read: 45 fps and write: 44 fpsThe RAID on internal: HDTV 1080 8 bit YUV 422 readings are Read 112.8
Write 76.5 to give me read: 28 fps and write: 19 fpsYou may also need to upgrade your video card to one with a newer GPU
to take the processing load off the CPU’s”