[John Davidson]

Thanks for the input guys.

I’m 99% positive Avid shows you a marker where your clip would end as well as your outpoint in the canvas. So in this scenario you actually have 3 points marked in your canvas window. 2 normal ones, and a 3rd that shows where your outpoint is really going to be – hence – a visual reference.

Am I seriously the only person in the world that thinks this is a slightly annoying issue? With all the options, settings, and menus available to us in FCP, am I really that far out of line for suggesting an option to give viewer markers priority over sequence markers? It may not be an option useful to everybody, but in promos that have hard outs that can’t be changed (or extended with insert editing), sometimes a tiny slice of a clip is all I have room for. If I save two keystrokes to do it, then that’s a workflow improvement.

I’m just not a mouse drag/drop kinda guy when it comes to editing into a sequence. Too many times it inserts instead of overwrites, wrecking timings.

[John Davidson]

Yeah, I’ve already remapped the keyboard to make those quick keys you referenced faster.

I was kind of hoping for some advanced hack to provide me with an option to reference the last three marks, or at least give some visual clue when this happens before I make the edit. It’s easy to cmd z, but every time that happens it throws me off and I end up saying “yes, @#$@, that’s exactly what I wanted when I set the in and out on the viewer – clearly by doing that I really meant to wipe an entire track of edits out with one clip.

I wonder if the new octo macs have an experiemental “sarcasm chip”.

In/outs probably work differently in Avid because FCP can have multiple viewers open simultaneously in which each could have different in/outs. Still, it might nice to have a combo quick key that, when adding a new 4th clip, deletes the out on the sequence if you prefer rather than ignoring the brand new out in the viewer. I wouldn’t want a pop up blocking the edit or alerting me to the fact that my in/outs are different lengths, but a choice between sequence vs viewer priority would be nice.

[John Davidson]

I think it was pretty obvious that I was annoyed with Panny for not having p2 cards avail to the stores who were telling me they couldn’t get any. Listing stores that don’t have any cards demonstrates to the guys here that I’m not just looking at one store online and then giving up. All worked out in the end though.

We shot the first night of the video last night and I’m seriously feeling the love for this camera – 24pn footage is amazing – I can’t wait to get it into After Effects and mess around with it. I’ve read posts about people not wanting to shoot 24pn for a 29.97 final delivery, however I’m fine with just outputting from AE and adding pulldown myself. We’re use to doing that with maya renders (we do 24fps from maya).

Here’s some other awesome things I noticed.

My mom’s acer aspire laptop that we gave her for xmas reads these p2 cards, eliminating the need for a p2 store. Once I loaded the drivers on it and got p2 viewer, that is. That was totally unexpected. Oddly enough, it makes me wonder why anyone would buy a $1500 p2 store or fs-100 when you can get a $800 laptop that does the same thing with twice the hd space – and let’s you view your files when loaded.
Maybe it’s a battery – convenience – ruggedness issue. The p2 store feels like it could take more punches than Patrick Swayze.

Thumbnail playback of footage shot is excellent and very intuitive.

The elipz battery is great, but won’t last 7 hrs if you’re using the ElightZ attachment. That little tiny light sucks power like an electric vampire.

focus assist is your friend.

720-60, slomo shots. Huh huh…cool… It makes me want to shoot scenes like in the Chappelle show when they demonstrated how cool slomo makes everything.

Coming from a z1u ,I thought the camera was a little quirky. I missed the sony design and formula. I’ve changed my tune – the panny is much better.

When we’re done with the music video, I’ll make sure to post it for you guys. It’s country music, but please don’t hold that against me. I’m sure I’m making all kinds of shooting mistakes. Later, I’ll call them creative decisions :-).

Cheers,
John

Cheers,

[John Davidson]

JeremyG, you’re a lifesaver. They had it in stock at Fleth.com. Shipping it to location.
Whew!

[John Davidson]

and now apparently there are no cards in Atlanta, either. Not even to rent – PCE is all booked up.

Wow.

[John Davidson]

found one in Atlanta – says it’s in stock – cross your fingers.

[John Davidson]

Cool – I suppose I should mention that I’m flying to a location Thursday in which I was hoping to use the camera (I admit, it would be with an abbreviated understanding of the camera). Shipping a card isn’t really an option if I’m to use it on set this week.

Does anybody have a line of a provideo store in Atlanta I can try? That’s where I’m shooting.

It’s seriously time for competition in the p2 market. Anybody wanna start a p2 card company? We could make a 400 gig one that mounts on the back and charge $50,000 each. Sweet.

This is my fault for not walking out the door when the store I bought from dropped the bomb they were out. I’m so STUPID! Sorry if I came off a little strong before. At this price point product shortages are very annoying.
jd

[John Davidson]

Way to go Panasonic. Not one single store listed on the Panny website carries any p2 cards in stock. B&H photo is out, Promax is backordered, Studio Exchange (the guys that sold me this camera) is out, Samy’s in Venice won’t sell it without buying the camera, every shop I hit in Burbank was out.

I don’t know where else to call.

This is so not cool.

John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeatherinc.com

[John Davidson]

Sweet. Thanks.

[John Davidson]

IT guys in a mac world are like Maytag repairmen in those old commercials. Bored.