Jan Crittenden livingston
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Brian FitzGerald:As a followup to my previous post, here are some of the abbreviations I haven’t been able to figure out yet:
MCR Memory card recorder
OSD On Screen Display
SW MODE Switch Mode
MIKE ALC Not sure about it called MIKE, but MIC ALC would be Mic Auto Limiter Control
TCG Time Code Generate
UB MODE User Bits Mode, which mode do you want it to operate in
UB PRESET If you want User Bits to start at a Preset numberEOS Boy you have me there. I have looked through the manual, and at virtually every menu and I don’t find this abbreviation. Do you mean OIS, if so then that is Optical Image Stabilization.
Hope this helps,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Hi Mark,
Well, you would need to be working for the company. and since you are engineering side, you would have a path more like my cohort Mike Bergeron. He is our camera engineer, and he actually posts on occasion on the VariCam Cow. Mike is fairly new to Panasounic about 3 years, but comes from a engineering and filmmaking background. Never a DP, but primarily a Technical Guy that made everything work on set. He also was a instructor at NYU for a bit of time. And then we got lucky and he showed up on our doorstep and we had the opening. Great Guy, very cool to work with.
As for me I have been at Panasonic for almost 20 years, been in this business since 1974, and I use that date because I actually got a pay check for being here. Was here before that but was a student. Anyhow, my path took me through sales, which gets you close to the customer and then finally ended me in Product Management but I never gave up the customer part. Much of what is in the the HVX200 or the DVX100B is there because of customer wishlists. There should be people out here saying hey, I said I wanted this feature and here it is. Of course we couldn’t include everything as it had to meet a budget, but that was the objective, put as much in as we could.
Hope that helps,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
>So why doesn’t Panasonic offer a 3rd party Codec, or work with Adobe. Have they got an exclusive with Apple?
We don’t have an exclusive with Apple, Avid, and Canopus are also on board.
There are some things in the works for other platforms, I know that Marcus Van Bavel has been very busy with the Raylight and there are other things that are taking place which I cannot discuss.It is going to have a huge impact on your product sales if there aren’t easy post solutions without going to FCP. We are currently using Pro and Pro50 equipment and would love to move to P2, but not if we can’t post in our current Premiere workflow.
Well you are using Pro50 on the Premier Pro platform, unless you are working uncompressed, but just have some faith that these things do work out exactly how they are supposed to. I do understand, it all will be fine, just give it a bit of time.
All the best,
Jan
Jan
Look at your DVX100 install base. It isn’t all apple!
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Wait till NAB, there may be surprises in store. 😉 Cannot say any more.
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
As far as I know Adobe does not natively support any resolution of DVCPRO greater than 25Mb. I do not believe that they support any MXF file structure, or at least not OP-Atom which is the P2, as far as I know. I understand that the Matrox Axio as background will be supporting things in the near future but to what extent we will probably have to wait and see at NAB.
As far as the P2 store using the USB 2.0 for file transfer, what is the problem with that?, it is file transfer.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Definitely a start in the right direction as far as color and detail stuff. The DVD is also very useful in the explanation of the color and gamma curves. Now of course the gamma curves are different on the HVX but relative.
Hope this helps,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Hard to say since we don’t know who your vendor is. Email privately at crittendenj at us.panasonic.com
Please tell me who your vendor is and I will let you know, provided that you are in the US and the dealer is in the US. That is the only info I have access to.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
[Scenecutter] “The DVCPRO50 recordings look fine except for lots of alias on clothing, bricks, diagonal lines, etc. Lowering detail to -5 helps. But of course you begin to loose sharpness.”
Ah, now we are getting somewhere. Go to the menu that is V. Detail Freq. Set this to Mid or Thick. That should alleviate some of the problems that you are experiencing with the DVCPRO50 transfer to the Beta SP. BetaSP cannot handle the full verticle res that is possible with it set at thin, Mid might be okay, but thick would probably be best.
Good luck,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Try backing the detail down , perhaps you are sending the Beta SP too much info and the extra is just turning into aliasing and garbage.
What don’t you like about the Beta SP copy? That might help us give more suggestions.
Best,
Jan
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Hmmm, that is odd. The camera obviously has gotten confused. The easiest thing to do is to just disengage the battery or power supply, should this happen and then reboot.
It would be helpful if you could recall the steps that lead up to this and send them to me in an email, so that we could see if it is repeatable. Or we could figure out that what you did was a series of confusing commads. Anyhow if you can remember what you did, email the steps to me at crittendenj at us.panasonic.com.
Best,
JAn
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems