Ron Shook
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[jarheck] “I wouldn’t mind a larger weight capacity for those times when I do rent a larger camera.”
Go for heavier sticks, particularly if you’re going to use P2 cards and change them on the fly. You’ll still have hell to pay trying to do it without jarring the camera.
Ron Shook
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Jiri,
[Jiri Vrozina] “not possible.”
Oh, well. Do you know if it downconverts for monitoring?
Ron
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Toke,
[toke lahti] “Ron, do you mean recoring hd/dv50 to p2 and _simultaneosly_ a backup to dv-tape?”
Exactly! I don’t really expect a positive response to this, but what a great and marketable feature that would be, eh?
Ron Shook
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Scenecutter,
[scenecutter] “I’m not sure I understand the question and answer. Will the component outputs be able to input to BetaSP with downconversion on playback?”
Good question, and related questions: Is there any sort of composite or S-video output that downconverts to SD when shooting HD for monitoring in SD? Also, again I ask if it is possible while shooting PVCProHD and/or DVCPro50 to record to miniDV tape a downconverted DV25 backup?
Ron Shook
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[Damonbots] “The transfer rate of the holographic media is supposed to be around 20MBytes per second. Isn’t that the equivalent to 160Mbits?”
yes
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Graeme,
[Graeme Nattress] “Just what we need.”
I wholeheartedly agree. A big missing piece in the puzzle.
Ron Shook
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Larry,
[Larry Sherwood] “No native support. . .yet…it is being worked on.”
Do you have any idea whether this will be a quick fix or a full blown fix? By that I mean, will Axio be able to work with the MXF files natively like Canopus Edius, or will it like Apple and Avid have a utility that strips the DVCPro (50 & HD) files from the MXF wrapper for native editing with these files? The difference for those who don’t know is that the MXF files can contain extensive metadata such as shooter, project, date of aquisition, who for, etc. Avid can take these metadata files into it’s own database. I don’t know about FCP. But with true MXF native editing, the metadata stays through the edit and will be contained even in the segments of the edited master, so at some point in the future you can check the edited master for the sources of some or all of its clips. Pretty neat, that!
Ron Shook
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Mike,
First, I don’t know anything about FCP, but I think that some clarification from the powers that be at Panasonic might be in order. These P2 cards fit directly into a PMCMIA type 2 card slot, the same slots found in any reasonably current laptop or that can be added to any desktop computer using an app. $100 USB to PMCMIA converter. Panasonic in their HVX literature shows the card being inserted directly into a Panasonic Laptop computer. Now a 5 slot device in the workstation would be more convenient and allow for the cutting of a more significant amount of source material directly from the cards, but at $2.5k not very value laden?
As far as I know, the critical parts of all this are the drivers from Pana so that the P2 cards look like a hard drive in the PMCMIA slot or slots, and the ability of the NLE to deal with the MXF format, which FCP can do. I don’t understand why you “must” have the 5 card device. Obviously there would be so little material on one card in one slot that you wouldn’t often be tempted to edit directly from the card but would use the card slot to serially dump the P2 files onto the NLE’s AV hard drives for editing.
Ron Shook
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David,
[David Cherniack] “Not to be picky, Les….”
That was rich! Good laugh for a wintry weekend.
Ron Shook
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Barry,
[Barry Green] “Was it nNovia perhaps?”
Gosh, I don’t know. I suppose it could have been, but I’m afraid I was thinking of something else by then. Sorry
Ron