Ken Adolph
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You are probably going to have problems until you upgrade to PremierePro 1.5.1
Ken Adolph
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I have done this before by using print screen, bringing this into premiere and then move a mouse pointer(graphic) around the screen.
Ken Adolph
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Thanks for the reply Steven. This sounds logical to me. I am going to create a new project with video for windows 24fps settings and import this project.
Hopefully this will work.Ken Adolph
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I think that the excitement about P2 is because it sounds cool to record directly to computer compatible storage. If you can afford to have your footage lost because of hard drive failure or electromagnetical erasure and you can afford to have lots of P2 cards then this will work. However, over the years I have had too many hard drives die for no apparent reason. Now I only use redundant raid storage for my edit systems so that I don’t loose my captured footage. Even if a catastrophe happens i can still go back to the tapes and re-capture.
P2 will be good for news crews because they don’t archive any of their footage(only the edited story). It can also work for the high end productions because they can have a person on set who’s only responsiblity is to record to HDD and back it up immediately to another disc.
I think that the only answer to this “instant access media” idea is Sony’s XD-cam. These discs are almost indestructable with instant access and they are cheap. At this time the 23gb discs are about $24, can record 45minutes of IMX and are good for up to 10,000 recording cycles. The HD version will be out soon.
It is also possible to have the low-rez proxy video transferred via ethernet(wired or wireless) to a laptop in real time in order to pre-edit on location.
I believe the XDcam system is the future replacement for tape even though tape is still the most secure system available and will be around for a long time.Ken Adolph
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I think that the only people who are waiting for this camera are the news shooters. anyone else doing normal production won’t touch it.
P2 is an extremely bad idea and will probably die like MII.Ken Adolph
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I have just placed my order for an Axio-HD system. I should have it by the end of May. The reason I have gone this way is because we do a lot of post-production for internal and external producers. I have used Matrox Digisuite in our three suites for about 7 years and I really like Matrox products for durability and support.
One of the advantages of the Axio system is that it uses PPro. I have two of the plug-ins from AutoMatic Duck, the pro-import and the new pro-export(I will receive this one next month). The importer brings in complete project files from Avid and FCP so we can “on-line” projects for just about everyone in our area and beyond. The exporter will allow us to export complete OMF files to our Pro-Tools audio facility.
We just completed a 24fps animation project which was off-lined in FCP and it worked flawlessly.
The cost is higher than products like decklink, etc but the real-time ability is very important to us. We decided to go with the HD system at this time even though we don’t need it quite yet, because of the price.
The SD system without storage is $C 17,000 and the HD sytem is $C 22,000 however we get $US 1,500 for the SD and $US 2,500 for trading in our Digisuite card. We don’t actually have to trade it in. We just give them the serial number and then we keep the card to use as a frame buffer for Combustion, etc.
This makes the difference between SD and HD not that much up front.At this time our other two suites will run PPro with SD-connect boxes for lower end projects. However, because they are running PPro we can easily on-line them at higher rez in the Axio suite.
Hope this helps.
Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca