[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Have you tried trashing the preferences on the FCp and starting over there. For some reason these do get messed up in an overnight or in an hour. Try this and rebuild the preferences file. That might do the trick.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

I will check with the factory about anything significant, but while I do that there are a couple things that strike me about your work flow that seem problematic.

First, you must put the record lock on so that the Apple does not index the card. The P2 camera whrites the card to just enough full so that it still has a bit of wiggle room. It the write protect is not on, the Apple indexes the card, thus overfilling the card and this sort of error takes place.

Now if you have done this you can reverse it, but turning othe hidden files and you will see the stuff the Apple has put on ther, Delete it and then put the write-protect back on.

Second, always, always, until Apple changes things, offload the media from the card to an HDD before. You can look at it, but do not import off of the cad. Import off of the HDD transfer. Apple makes this recommendation.

Give me a day or so as the engineering folks are moving en masse to Las Vegas for NAB, but I will get back to you.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

You should transfer your footage to the HDD before importing. I is something that FCP doesn’t like too much.

As fas as Panasonic using something different in newer cameras, don’t think so. So what is your serial number?

Best,

jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

They are probably using the PCMCIA Driver that is on our website. One of the consultants we use has one of the Betas and it is working now, so it isn’t a big deal. It is available.

Best,

Jan

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

From what I understand it is the Panasonic portion of JVC that is up for sale. Additionally the last I heard it was possibly going to be purched by a US Hedge Fund, but that is not final either at this time.

Best,

Jan

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

That model number does not sound like a Panaosnic Model number and we have not changed our model number for the CGR series. So who’s batteries are they?

Best,

jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

I think this camera has been discussed more under the VariCam Forum since it is a tape based camera.

Best,

jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[PaulJBis] “1) First of all: this may sound bizarre, but… when recording to DV tapes (NOT P2 cards) and in SD, does the HVX-200 capture progressive frames? (i.e., the footage may have 2 fields, but they are identical). A freelance editor my company works with came today complaining that we had given him tapes shot in progressive mode with this camera and that they had messed with his workflow (don’t ask me how). We opened the captured Quicktime files, and sure enough, they looked progressive, without interlacing artifacts… but this is honestly news to me. I though SD DV was always lower-field first?”

Yes the camera can record in progressive mode either in SD or HD, it is a choice that one makes through the menus.

[PaulJBis] “2) On the subject of non-standard frame rates in DVCPRO HD: after searching this forum, my understanding is that, in order to show slow-motion, you have to shoot first in (say) 50/60fps, and then use Panasonic’s frame rate converter to convert it to a “standard” frame rate, so that the footage will look “slowed down” when imported to FCP. (Otherwise, when imported, FCP will just play the footage at the original 50/60fps, without any slow motion).”

All one would have to do is to select the PN modes in the recording stages. Then they could choose a frame rate for the shot and no frame rate converter would be necessary. For example you are shooting in 720/25PN and you want to slow mo, so you choose 50 frames as the frame rate. That is what it records but it is tagged as a 25P clip, so when it is imported into the edit system and is put on the time line it is slo-mo.

[PaulJBis] “2a) Am I right in the above, or am I misunderstanding something?
2b) Considering that Panasonic’s frame rate converter only converts to 24, 30 or 60fps, what can those of us in PAL-land (25fps) do? “

Perhaps Apple reworked the Frame Rate Converter and it is on the upgrade disk to use as a plug-in? I habe heeard that with the most current version the Frame Rate Converter from our website is not seen by FCP. A quick look through the Appl CDs and there is one there. Don’t know if it works for PAL, as I am not in PAL land. But the shooting method above works in PAL land for sure.

Hope this helps,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Might your question be pointed toward Apple? We didn’t make FCP, Apple did.

As far as the frame rate converter, why would you need it? If you are working in P2, and you want something other that 25P, change your frame rate to 18 and be sure you are in the 720/25PN mode. It will record only the 18 frames per second and thus you won’t need the frame rate converter at all.

Hope that helps,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Can you lay out for us the schema of the filing system of that hard drive?
Seems like it might be difficult to have many files that have the same name, my computer won’t let me do that, so I am curious about the structure of the filing system that allows this to happen. A closer look might show the audio file names are similar, but that does allow for audio to be identified with its video.

So if using the Media Tool you should be able to identify this drive and consolidate the drive.

More examples needed to really help.

Also, ask the person that shot it for you to identify his method of offloading footage from the P2 Cards. That will also help us get a snap shot of what you have there.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems