Peter Corbett
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Thanks Ben,
I’ll check out the earlier thread. The overnight thing scares me. Rendering is already a pain on my Vista/PPro CS3 setup which is still fast by any standard. I guess I have to weigh up whether I go for a FCP system for industry compatibility or upgrade my PC to Axio LE and get a lot of RT (especially slomo). Cost is around the same. hmmm….
Cheers,
PeterPeter Corbett
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Still weighing up the pros and cons of moving to FCP from Premiere. Good slomo is important to me. What happens if I want to export lots of clips on a timeline to Motion for speed changes? Can a series of clips be exported in one hit or do they have to be imported individually into Motion one at a time ? Is this practical in real life?
Peter
Peter Corbett
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I’ve heard this issue is fairly widespread. A DOP friend has exactly this problem and the second slot solution does work. It’s not very pratical to use one slot only though.
Peter
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Hi Barry,
My beef isn’t with ingesting the P2 footage. I am using Raylight and it seems to work well. Shooting is the issue. It’s tricky enough shooting all day on a few 8-gig or 16-gig cards and backing up to laptop or P2 Store, but will it get easier when the bigger cards arrive? If you are location shooting where you do more than two hours of 1080 a day on five 32-gig cards, just imagine the back-up time to hard-drive back at the office or location. Or four hours daily of P2 1080 footage on a doco shoot or long-interview corporate? As I said I love the Panasonic broadcast cameras but the backup time issue is something that is rarely mentioned in these threads.
Pater
Peter Corbett
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New CS3 approved 6.4 drivers have just been posted.
Peter
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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We’ve been shooting on P2 HD for a month on a project. I love the look of the camera and the quality. But if you shoot 2+ hours of HD and backup to one or two P2 Stores during the day, consider this. After a long day’s shooting on location, head back to your hotel and start digitising. If you do it direct from the P2 cards, it’ real time plus drive/notebook management time.
16gig equals 16-minutes transfer time. Try doing 120 or 200 gig like I’ve had to do every day. Spending 2 – 4 hours in a hotel room on a doco shoot every night backing up to hard drive (and then to a backup drive for the primary drive) while the rest of the crew heads out to dinner is not my idea of a good time.
I love the Panasonic cameras and reckon they kill the Sony’s on gamma curves and kick-butt chroma, but the data backup issue is a major one. We lost a half day’s shoot because we lost track of which P2 had been backed up and erased a card that hadn’t been transferred. It’s very tricky to keep track of things and as I said, VERY time-consuming.
I don’t know where these guys who say it SAVES time are coming from. Maybe if you’re a news shooter and you zing back to the station and edit directly from one or two cards, then nuke the contents when finished. But what if you shoot one hour, or three hours a day. What if you are away doing long corporate days or wildlife or hours of interviews? It’s a different story and I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. That said, I will still consider the HPX3000 when we actually buy a 2/3″ HD camera. Call me crazy.
Peter
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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What I’d like to see ASAP Kristian is a Vista 64 driver.
Peter
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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I should add that’s on Vista 32 as well.
Peter
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Hi Yasser,
I can’t guarantee anything as I don’t work for BM, but I’ve been using earlier drivers than 6.3 with beta CS3 Production Premium for some months without issue. I just cut my fifth commercial last night on 6.3 drivers so I don’t know else I can say.
Peter
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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The current driver 6.3 works fine with CS3 on my HD Extreme. No beta required.
Peter
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
http://www.php.com.au