Kyle Fordrung
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On the back of your HVX, on the bottom left side, there should be a button that says “Tape” on one side and “Card” on the other.
Hit that button and it should switch over to “Card” mode, which will give you the HD recording options.
It should also be noted, that you will need to have P2 card in order to record to HD, since the HVX doesn’t support HDV tapes.
Good luck.
Also, I suggest getting Barry Green’s HVX & HPX Book, and/or the HVX Boot Camp dvds, if you intend to use the HVX extensively.
Kyle Fordrung
Octopod Video Labs
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Unfortunately, transfer speeds directly from the camera are deathly slow.
I’ve done some testing with P2 ingest speeds and found that the fastest direct-from-camera ingest method is to use USB and P2 Viewer (or P2CMS on Mac).
Test is here: https://octopodblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/adobe-prelude-cs6-p2-ingest-speed-test/
Kyle Fordrung
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Glad to see that it’s still possible to mod that file.
I had to unlock my GeForce GTX570 in PPro CS5, since they didn’t support it for GPU acceleration until CS5.5
In any case, to anyone thinking that they might want to do that, be 100% sure your GPU can handle it before you try.
Kyle Fordrung | Videographer & Editor | OctopodLabs.com
Panasonic HVX200
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 -
Thanks John.
I just found it odd, because both P2 Viewer and P2CMS have progress bars that seem to go at real-time when ingesting.
Kyle Fordrung | Videographer & Editor | OctopodLabs.com
Panasonic HVX200
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 -
I’ve been cutting DVCProHD with my early 2008 MacBook Pro on PPro CS6 for the past week with little or no difficulty.
As long as you’re not doing anything super graphics-intensive you should be fine.
But, like Shane said, having a graphics card that can unlock the Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration is definitely going to be a boon.
With CS5 I remember that there was a way to unlock additional (not yet Adobe certified) cards, but I wouldn’t recommend it for CS6 – if it’s even possible.
Kyle Fordrung | Videographer & Editor | OctopodLabs.com
Panasonic HVX200
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 -
Steve,
That’s what I have been trying to figure out. Prelude doesn’t seem to be anything more than an Adobe version of P2 Viewer. One feature it does have is the ability to create rough cuts right from your P2 cards, and then port all of that to Premiere, which is neat – I guess- but I don’t think it was necessary to create a whole new application.
I suspect that they needed a product to replace OnLocation, but to be honest, I miss being able to use my laptop as a waveform monitor, or to record to my HDD when I don’t necessarily mind the compression.
Long story short, I think Prelude seems to be much ado about nothing.
If I get the chance, I will try to do a comprehensive review and see what -if any- are the real benefits to Prelude vs. P2Viewer/P2CMS.
Kyle Fordrung | Videographer & Editor | OctopodLabs.com
Panasonic HVX200
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 -
I did some speed tests today to determine which was the quickest ingest method, and while Prelude seems to have performed much better this time around, it still was not as fast as P2 Viewer.
I tested each method with the same clip.
Clip Length: 01:05;15
Settings: 1080i/23.97p
Codec: DVCProHD
File Size: 968.6 MBTest 1 – Firewire (HVX200 to Mac Snow Leopard
Copy & Paste: 00:01:45
P2CMS ingest: 00:01:50
Adobe Prelude: 00:01:36Test 2 – USB (HVX200 to Windows Vista 64bit)
Copy & Paste: 00:01:20
P2 Viewer: 00:00:35
Adobe Prelude: 00:00:38All in all, it seems that P2 Viewer via USB is still the faster direct-from-camera ingest method.
As far as my earlier complaints about Prelude’s ingest speed, I have noticed after my testing that the progress bar seems to hang for a while between 1% – 4% and then goes from 5 to 100 almost instantly. Perhaps this caused the process to only seem as though it took longer than it did.
If anyone can test these out using the Duel Adapter, a laptop PCMCIA slot, or the Panasonic USB P2 reader, that would be awesome!
Kyle Fordrung | Videographer & Editor | OctopodLabs.com
Panasonic HVX200
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 -
Uh oh. Not being able to ingest a clip spanned across two P2 cards is a pretty big issue. Thanks for narrowing that one down!
I’m still not sure what the issue is with the slow ingest, though, since I was only trying to ingest 4 GB from a 16GB card.
If I get a chance today, I will see if I can get ahold of anyone at Adobe over the phone and I’ll report back with any info.
Kyle Fordrung | Videographer & Editor | OctopodLabs.com
Panasonic HVX200
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 -
Hi Dwight,
It’s disappointing really. I was super excited about an integrated P2 ingest solution to use with Premiere Pro.
I’ve got similar questions posted over on the Adobe forums and DVXUser. Hopefully someone, somewhere, can shed a little light on the issue.
Kyle Fordrung | Videographer & Editor | OctopodLabs.com
Panasonic HVX200
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5