Nick Marques
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Not exactly. Premiere Pro reads P2 natively, so there is no ingest required. Premiere Pro doesn’t re-wrap the data or convert/transcode it. It reads it straight just as it was recorded.
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It might come to P2 cards. I don’t want my shooters to manage the cards. We’ve had too many of them screw it up. Sounds pretty hard to mess up, but when they aren’t using them daily and haven’t had “training” on them, anything can go wrong. I liked the HPG20 since the TD can jockey media as necessary and the camera guys can focus on the shots.
We’ve had several FS-100s crap out on us during shoots. Some just randomly powered off (with charged batteries), some (especially rented ones) have had hard disks flake out. Firewire cables don’t lock, and we’ve had our share of camera guys knock the out during shooting and not realize it for a half hour. We do live event shooting, so we can’t go back and reshoot.
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Thanks for the input. I would prefer a device that records to DVCPRO HD or AVC-Intra.
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Your script works, but as far as being tidy, the bottom layer camera stays on for all of them.
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Amazing! Thanks so much. I’ll let you know how it works out.
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Yeah, that was my guess as to how that was going to happen. It would be nice to be able to script that duplication and deletion.
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I’ve opened the XML files and looked at them, and they look the same as for clips that are just fine. I can scrub the damaged clips in P2 Viewer just fine… so I don’t know what is wrong.
I wish it would tell you more info than just “damaged”.
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Thanks for the offer. I’d try out your software, but we’re working with Premiere Pro CS3.2 on Windows with Matrox RT.X2 cards.
My only guess is that the cameramen unplugged the Firewire cables from the FS-100 units while they were still in REC PAUSE mode and not stopped. Would that do bad things?
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Actually, I lied… It takes the same 10 hours to Export to P2. I forgot that I only did half of it for that 5 hour number.
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Just a little update…
With 2 hours of HDV 1080i footage in this 720p project, it took about 10 hours to render the preview files.
Then, doing the Export to Panasonic P2 took about 5 hours. I have no idea why it takes this long… CPU usage sky rockets to 100% for all four cores (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 Ghz).
I guess doing the render preview didn’t help much, except that so far it hasn’t crashed.
I thought about just grabbing the preview renders and using those, except the filenames are all weird.