[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

No it is not. Take a look at the Ross or Older Grass Valleys for this functionality.

Best,

jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

You didn’t say whether these were the MXF files or the rewrapped QT files. Always save a copy of the MXF files.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

The PCD20 when hooked up to a PC or Mac can actually be the fastest transfer as all cards can transfer at the same time, depending on the computer, but it is fast.

Second thing you want to think about if data management, or rather it should be among the first things you think about as you will have a lot of data within which you will eventually be looking to find a particular clip. This is the time to think about using metadata. When looking at the Reality show is there a way to brak it down into subheads? For example the Iditarod is a reality show, they shot 120 hours of footage. The broke it down by the checkpoints across the trail. So each shooter when reaching a new checkpoint loaded a new metadata file. When they handed in their cards the offload station working in DVFilm’s Raylight, offloaded the cards into preset folders named for the checkpoints. And it didn’t matter that a card may have two different metadata descriptions, they were sorted into the approppriat folder. This made the editing much easier as material was easier to find.

There is a decriptive paper on how to do this metadata on our website http://www.panasonic.com/p2hd. It is under the resources area.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

DVCPRO50 is a Standard Definition format with 4:2:2 color sampling.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi John,

Check to see if you have Dynamic Range Stretch on. It is a function that many believe is a good thing for all occasions, but in reality is not. It really is helpful for those very wide latitude shots but for nomal shooting, it adds noise.

Hope this is the problem.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Actually it will support the G4s as well, sorry it doesn’t sound that way. Go ahead and try it. No harm done and some babysittng saved.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[Erich Roland] “The HDX’s have a up-rez’d SD sensor, and as John mentioned doesn’t have the dynamic range, or “pleasant filmic look” the varicam has. The HDX is very hard edged looking for my taste. One can convert the varicam’s 720p image to 1080 if needed and you will basicly be in the same place that the HDX will get you to (lines wise) but with a better looking image.”

Hi Erich, The HDX900 has the exact same Chip set as the Varicam, the firmware around it is different. The new 2700 and the 2000 also have the same CCD set as the Varicam and again it is the firmware/software around it that is different. The control handles are not as sophisticated on the HPX2000 and the HDX900, but you can get the HDX900 to come very close to looking like the Varicam, but as you say it is not the smae, the Varicam and the new P2 Varicam have the Varicam mojo.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi Graham,

In general a drag and drop is not a very safe way to handle the footage. I would use a helper program at the very least. YOu could use the P2CMS from Panasonic, it is free for the download, got to http://www.panasonic.com/p2hd, look under the download area. There are other programs that offer additional features and levels of sophistication. One of those is “babysitting” as you say, these programs will verify your copies down to the bit, this includes the P2CMS.

Anyhow I really do endorse the use of helper programs, they do grunt work that is picky and painful.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[Noah Kadner] “Right now if you want a P2 card you have exactly one choice- Panasonic. Well there’s also the Fuji ones but those are not widely available as of yet. Now Panasonic did invent P2 and they did a great job but it’s hard not to see how a lack of competition doesn’t keep the price higher than it needs to be.”

Actually Fujifilm and Maxell are in the process of coming on board, but the pricing I have seen from them is at a similar level. The problem is that most people think much like you do Noah and believe that the card merely contains the same cheap memory that you see in SD cards. This is not true. The memory is not commercially available. It is why we can say over 100,000 rewrites. There is other technology that is in there as well that causes the cards to be expensive, like the Raid Controller, the LSI that watches over the integrity of the data and the 5 stops through the manufacturing process for QC. It is nothing like stamping out an SD card.

I hope this helps,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

Sorry, this is not really possible. You can cap the camera but it will record video regardless.
Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems