Lars Wikstrom
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60:1 ratio, wow thats alot. I have not shot a project in HD yet just played around with it. My DVCAM lasted 5 years and I am expecting the HVX-200 to last the same amount of time. In 5 years I expect to be doing more HD projects which is why this camera was a good choise. Buying a camera I expect it to return 100 times what I paid for it. I can say that the $2500 I spent on the DVCAM made $250K over 5 years. I can see your problem doing HD and Backing up to DVD, 4 minutes per disc would be a pain in the A*S to want to backup at a 60:1, ouch!
The way I am processing work flow right now is to pop the P2 card in my laptop. I then created a FCP project I reuse called “P2 Importer”. I transfer in the footage with the goofy names and save. I then access the Capture Scratch / P2 Importer folder and rename all of the clips and toss out the bad ones. Then create a new project “Bob’s Car Parts 30 sec. Spot” and drag the files out of that P2 importer folder and into a footage foler I created in the new project and re import them into the new project with it’s new names.
That is the easiest way I have found so far to keep control of everything. As for media managing things that is the way I use to do it since everything lived on tape. Now I tend to back it all up since the clients like to re visit things every no and then. That is why I have be come more strick with what shots and how many takes I get of things.
-Lars
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Interesting. So you are choosing Hard drives for your back ups. I guess in one way I am lucky since I rarely work on large scale scale productions. Most of my work are 30 second spots and I am trying to shoot everything in the 8 minutes (4 gig P2) in DVCPRO50. That way one job will be one disc.
Blue-Ray sounds really nice but I think I will wait to see how well it works. I installed a dual layer DVD burner in my laptop but those discs are more expensive then the 1 layer DVD.
Shooting lots of projects and backing them up to hard drive can be expensive like you guys had mentioned. It would be nice if someone created a portable self contained P2 to DVD burner in the future like the P2 store.
Thanks for the info. It’s nice to hear how other people are storing their stuff in the real world like I am.
-Lars
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Hey thanks, I will look through the manual and try to set it up and do some tests. The Manual seems a little sketchy in some areas and much of it is new to me.
-Lars
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Wow that will change my shooting style. To have to remember to hit that button before I stop rolling. It feel like Panasonic is trying to over protect you from deleting clips to where it becomes a real time consuming event to sort out and delete them.
When I read that post last week or so about a guy deleting his shots and wanting to unerase them, I though, There is no way that can be an accidental thing.
Panny should update the firmware in the camera to allow you to use the “Check Last Rec.” button to be used to delete the last clip if you select it in the menu. With an “Are you sure?” Y/N button to protect against an accidental erasing. That should cover this headache.
When I end up with 92 takes an half are what I want. It takes me longer to sort through and toss out the bad ones then it did to just log and capture from DV the old way.
But it’s a brave new world and I might just have to adjust my shooting style for now till Panny makes it a little easier agaain, I hope 🙂
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That might be a good work around. The marker clip was a little confusing when I read it in the manual. After I shoot a clip do I just press a button to add a marker to that clip I just captured?
-Lars
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Next version of the camera you should have that. You don’t have to have it in an easy to push place but after I’ve used the camera for a few weeks now it really is a must have for me. I wound up with about 92 clips for a 30 second spot and about 20 of those I would have deleted right after I shot it. But because it is so time consuming when you are shooting to have to switch over to VTR mode to delete I don’t and I end up with many more shots that I have to filter threw. I have another question but I will start a new thread for ingest of media.
Thanks.
-Lars
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Thanks.
-Lars
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I haven’t downloaded a driver. I installed the one that from the CD that came with the camera. Where is the driver located?
Thanks,
-Lars
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Good To know, thanks
-Lars
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A few posts down where he used the M2 adapter there were a few shots where the car was driving and it was streaky as hell. It looked nice and I wonder how he got those shots with a 1/12 shutter speed. Have you seen the video?
-Lars