Jan Crittenden livingston
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[Zacklg] “We’ve ordered the update to 5.1, but in the meantime we’d like to keep shooting. Is it possible to save the raw media on the P2 cards to a hard drive to be imported into FCP later? Or do you always have to go straight into FCP with the media from the P2 cards?
Knowing that we are going to output to film later, are their any settings to avoid?”Hi,
Yes you can save the MXF files on an HDD till your 5.1 arrives. Move your footage off the cards into new folders that you have named in a fashion that makes it easy for you to remember what is on the card. Once you insert the P2 card to the laptop you will see a CONTENTS folder and a lastclip.txt file, move both of these to their new home in the new folder that you have created.
Then when you start up FCP and you ask it to import P2, you direct it to these folders and it will do the rest once it sees the CONTENTS folder.
Hope this helps.
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
[david garcia] “I was anxiously awaiting NAB after Jan’s comments on this forum. I was hoping to see a FCP or quicktime revision that would handle MXF natively. Nope.
What did we get? HD LOG. It looks like a repurposed older software from some company in Indiana. It costs $800!!!”
David,
Sorry to hear that you feel that the native handling of the MXF files by the HD Log are not what you are looking for. Perhaps to you it looks like a repurposed piece of software, but to me it answers one of the top 10 questions about archive. To me it seemed to be a natural and frankly I am disappointed that the software is not available on a PC.
And BTW it is not $800, it is $700, but I hear what you are saying, you don’t want to spend that. Well then your only other choice is to wait for the import of the files into FCP.
I happen to think the HD Log is very slick as it is more than a P2 viewer.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Hi Guys,
Those of you that are having the slow tyansfer times from the P2 store, would you please identify which MAC and the processer speed that is in your MAC?
Thanks,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
[john sharaf] “Besides, the HVX900 is not available yet and one could not help but wonder when it rteally will be considering Panasonic’s record with HVX200 delivery.”
Not sure what you mean by this but, we said we would deliver the HVX200 in the 4th quarter of 2005 and we did. The target on the HDX900 will be in third quarter of 2006, but at this time it is looking like July.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Chris Baldwin:>The HPC2000 is very much a camera “on paper.” I personally could only get confirmation that it wouldn’t shoot 24p/30p — “its for news and broadcasters
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Hi Rich,
We have an area on the NAB floor where there are cards and potential to talk, the HVX FAQ pod. The cameras are loaded with P2 cards and we can check them out on the monitor next to it. You should be able to find me, I am in a red scooter cart(broken knee cap.)
Monday may be a bit of a mob scene, but if we are patient we should be able to get to a camera and experiment.
See you there.
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Michael,
Interesting set of problems. I am not sure how it would take so long to transfer the cards, longest I have seen is about 1 minute a GB, so with 6 cards, I am curious why it would takes so long. If you were first transferring to the P2 store, it is about a minute and a half per gig with verify.
The fact that the Powerbook didn’t like the P2 or was it the P2 store is also interesting, perhaps the P2 Store wasn’t set right or the P2 driver for the PCMCIA slot was not installed. Because overall, there are folks that are indeed working very successfully in documentary as well as dramatic film production on a MAC as we speak.
From here it sounds as though the crew was not well prepped for the experience. Akin to taking a bunch of noobs out on a film production and appointing one of them on site to be the film loader. It does take preparation and a knowedge level to be successful, but if your crew can take the time, I am sure that you will not lose your shirt.
Feel free to contact me off list with the name of your rental house, I would be happy to call them and walk them through the process of what they should do to prep/help their customers. crittendenj at us.panasonic.com.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Thanks Ron, I knew you would to deal with it, I have been too busy to ask.
Best to you!
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Leonard wrote:Jan, I don’t think this has anything to do with “Thick” vs Thin settings (I’ve always been on Thick) , and you shouldn’t have to eviserate your detail to get a decent picture.
As I said, if the detail in the pre-set scene file was set for an HD picture then you should expect to have to change it in order to gain a viable picture in SD. HD can handle much more detail than the SD signal can and thus while you call it eviserate, I would call it adjusting it to a useable level for standard definition.
However, I am not in a position to look at this until I am really back in Secaucus and have a lab to work in. Anything that may be posted from the NAB floor can only be subjective. And I am not even there yet.
Best,
jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Hi,
I am at NAB and have to do a lot of other things that if I don’t get them done, I won’t have a job. So trying to figure out exactly what the problem is will be difficult as I am not on the trade show floor, I am holed up in my hotel room, prepping a presentation.
My thoughts are that the files are set as if the camera was going to be used in High Def. So start looking at the detail numbers and back them down. Look at the vertical detail and see in that is in thick. When I have an opportunity I will set one of the consultants onto the task of finding the right detail settings cause I do believe that this is where the problem lies, the factory preset the camera detail for a HD look. I do have a very happy customer that is shooting with his SDX900, but he is using 24P, so his settings probably will not work for you if you are looking for 60i. I know that New York 1 is using it as a DVCPRO25 camera and are happy, so maybe a variation from their look would work. But those connections will take a bit of time to gather, especially since most of them are on their way to Las Vegas and no longer near a tech bench.
Experiment in the meantime, I will be back.
Later,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems