[Rick Maciag]

Also another quick side note, don’t EVER re-format your cards until you are sure that the files will load into your editing program.. Even if you think you are in a hurry to get to another shoot and you have dumped the files onto a hard drive or external. Always take the time to check and make sure that they will import into an editor, even if it’s not the editor that you intend to produce the final project in. As long as it loads into a program on one computer, if you have trouble loading it on your main computer after, you can always export the files from the one computer into an editable format for your main computer/program…

[Rick Maciag]

I shot on the HPX 170 over 2 P2 cards. I hit record one time and the program went for just about 2 hours. I shot in 720P/24PN mode. I had a lav mic taped to the podium mic to capture the announcer. I left this cam as a wide establishing shot for the most part. The P2 cards that I have are: in slot 1 I have a 32 GB E Series card (which I have only had for about 3 months or so, bought brand new from B & H) and in the 2nd slot I have a 16 GB R Series card that I bought brand new with the camera about 2 years ago now.
So when I hit record once, as you know it breaks up the clip into multiple clips to span across the 2 cards. So my problem yesterday was that I had mounted both cards via firewire onto my iMac and dragged the txt files along with the contents folders onto my harddrive, both at the same time and that was giving me my problem. After they finished loading onto the harddrive I opened up Premiere Pro and dragged in the contents folder of both cards that had been moved onto the harddrive. The 16 gb card files loaded fine. The 32 gb card files didn’t load. The program crashed and wouldn’t import. I tried to import into AE and Encoder even though I didn’t want to convert the files, but still they wouldn’t import into AE or Encoder either, same problem, both programs crashed. So someone on another thread gave me an idea. So I deleted the txt file and contents folder from my harddrive of the card that wouldn’t import. I then re-mounted that card and dragged the txt file and contents folder into a new folder that I created on my harddrive, different then the one with the contents of the 16 gb card. So then after the files finished moving onto the harddrive I imported the contents folder of the 32 gb card into the project that I had created in Premiere. So now both cards are loaded and imported (the contents folder of both). So a couple of things to note that I found out with this problem: move the files from the cards one at a time, don’t drag them offload the cards at the same time and 2nd, make a different folder on your harddrive for each card. Don’t place 2 contents folders in 1 folder, it is OK to make sub folders, but don’t put them into the same folder. I don’t know if 1 or both of these were the reason for the problem importing, but now the files have loaded fine in Premiere and now I can edit with my b-cam footage and I have the audio I need.

[Rick Maciag]

I am still getting used to the workflow with the P2HD in Premiere Pro CS 5.5. I was shooting 480i and editing in FCP 6, just upgraded and switched formats. Anyways, I deleted the contents folder that was giving me trouble from my folder and re-imported the P2 card again. Luckily I didn’t delete the files off the card yet… I then re-imported the files from the 2nd import into Premiere and they imported fine! I haven’t had this issue before but I guess that from now on when I use more than 1 card, I should import the cards one at a time instead of trying to import both cards at once onto my hard drive. Everything seemed to be fine except that I couldn’t import the files into Adobe. I tried a simple free file converter from the App store and that didn’t convert the files, even though I didn’t want to convert them in the first place, I just needed some workable footage. The only thing I didn’t try was to import the files into iMovie, which that would have been a whole other step and waste of time at this point. I am still figuring out bugs in the system. Overall I am very happy with the workflow of PP and my HPX-170.

[Rick Maciag]

Thanks for the tips, I will try these out!

[Rick Maciag]

Thanks guys, I am looking into borrowing some P2 cards to shoot in HD. I don’t have an option for a good monitor, but I do have an HD TV set that I can bring to at least help.

[Rick Maciag]

Yes someone else told me about using an even rounded number on a rescale, so I will have to forward that info on.. They are exporting the spots out of FCP and that is what I am exporting my clips out of. I am going to shoot progressive at DVC50 next time and see what happens. I shot Interlaced at DVCPro last time..

[Rick Maciag]

the spot is not being scaled down, it is deliverd in standard definition 4×3. I am saying that the shot that I have, I give them full frame 4×3 100% standard def and then they they shrink the shot to about 45% or so and when they do that, the shot gets blurry and does not look good.