Michael Shelton
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Hey Nate-
We had a set of Digi-Primes and various cinema style lenses that fit onto the camera, no adapter (like the redrock micro) needed. I don’t remember exactly what we used, it’s been awhile since we wrapped photography.
It’s a great camera, you’ll be happy.
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Awesome Jim-Congrats to you-great feeling isn’t it? Here’s how we did this,with a little help from our post house. We actually used the FCP Uncompressed 4:2:2 and output the reels individually and our post house did the conversion. I output visual effects shots as Dpx files out of Shake and Nuke and sent low rez to editorial with frame counters on the shots to generate EDL’s which were sent to the post house. This saved a step for us; not having to cut in and re-output an entire reel and redeliver for a handful of shots.
On the next feature however I’m keeping it all frame based, coming from film this is how I love to work. The toughest thing about Quicktime is I run a mixed OS facility with OSX,XP and Linux and good luck getting anything but the most basic QT codecs to show up on all three. We ran into this with the ProHd codec that you need FCP Studio 2 or you get the dreaded white screen. Plus staying 24 keeps vfx happy as our 3d apps don’t recognize 23.98 and that can cause sync issues.
I haven’t used the Glue app but am familiar with it-saw it at NAB a few years ago and thought it was brilliant. If you don’t want to use that and you have access to something like Shake you can input your QT and output DPX. I’ve found Shake’s implementation of Quicktime to be really solid (After Effects can cause color shifting with certain codecs).
As for our whites and blacks, we were very balanced and didn’t do anything specific to protect them.
Hope this helps, let us know how it looks!
Best,
M.Shelton
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Congrats Jim! I did the same about a month ago, we shot multiple camera’s, 8 and 16 gig cards over a months shoot with zero issue. We handled our numbering differently so we didn’t experience any problems there. I’m into heavy vfx work now and the footage holds up to heavy manipulation well.
Now the question is would you use the camera again or move to one of it’s bigger brothers? I’m Directing another feature in early 08 and faced with this issue; I have to say I’m sold on the P2 all the way.
Best of luck finishing.
Michael
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I Directed a feature that wrapped last month and we used the Duel Adapter into a MacBook Pro without incident using 8 and 16 gig cards from 3 cameras. Current drivers are key for both the adapter and from Panasonic.
My other suggestion is to plug the adapter into the slot and then turn the machine on-don’t keep unplugging it while running.
Hope this helps.
M.
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We used DigiPrimes-I’ll check with my DP for the exact set up.
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I will end up uprezing the 720 footage eventually. I have some pretty trick retiming software and my plan is to actually ramp the footage instead of having it play at a constant frame rate.