William Carr
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Understanding all the practical limitations and caveats of the changing paradigms, and that at the very least these are specialty cameras and not be-all solutions to shooting everyday TV and movies, I wonder if you have had any notice or feedback on the Panasonic entry–
It seems to do 24p and we’ve been happy with our DVCPROHD production tools. Yes, I know this is 4/3 Live MOS and AVCHD, but there is a manufacturer history of bringing useful products to the fray.
For our modest-budget indie projects and docs, it is very appealing to think we could sometimes get some serious depth of field, low-light clarity and better color depth for this price. And oh yes, snap some quality behind-the-scenes images for promotion purposes and press kits.
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Thanks Shane!
This was my thought too, but I am not experienced enough in the retail DVD world to know for sure.
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Thank you! I will dig it out and plant it back!
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OS is 10.6.1, a clean install on a brand new machine with nothing else on it but how it came from Apple 2 weeks ago.
In the past when I install FCS it upgrades the QT player into Pro “releasing” its full capabilities. I was told way back that FC turns on the Pro stuff in QT as part of its installation, and that’s how it always appeared to me.
I don’t see now nor have I ever seen QT in the Utilities folder, but rather it’s in the App folder.
The issue is, why did the standard version of QT already sitting on this machine not get turned into the Pro version upon FCS install?
And BTW, the QT interface now looks very different in Snow Leopard, kind of like a cross between iTunes and iMovie. -
Thanks all for great responses.
To complicate matters, my Apple biz guy told me just now their 30-inch does NOT have a glossy screen and can use the standard DVI port to avoid the short-cable problem. It’s 1,800 bucks (less Applecare), that’s the price of 2 good quality 24-inch monitors from other mfgrs.
Now giving a single 30-inch setup some thought, vs. 2x 24-inch monitors.
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Avoid DVD compression until the very end of the project.
If no capture card, you can do it down and dirty:
VHS deck with s-video out (or if not, composite)– connect to just about any MiniDV camera– run firewire from that camera into Mac and Capture Now (Easy Setup: DV).I imagine from there you could convert the clips to ProRes (even DV50 would be an improvement) for color correction and other image enhancements.
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Don’t know what Mac you have, but you wrote:
“What I’ve done:
• Transferred the entire P2 card (CONTENTS folder and LASTCLIP.txt file) from the camera to a folder on my computers hard drive (no names were changed) ”If you’re trying to use your main internal (system) drive the L&T behavior can be unpredictable, erratic, undependable. L&T may work fine one day and not the next as your internal drive reallocates spaces for everything else your Mac does. So if that’s the case try a FW 800 external at least.
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Just a thought: was Final Cut already launched when you placed the Plugins? Have you quit and relaunched since?
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Someone in the forum may have had similar experience and has advice, but as far as finding “phone/contact to send product to”–
I typed “panasonic p2 camera” into Google and got this:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=panasonic+p2+camera&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10
and clicked the first result which was this:
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/home.asp
on which you can click “support” and get this:
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/support/
and you’re well on your way to getting some good info or contacts to get to the bottom of what’s going on.
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What is the difference between these repeater-hubs and a regular multi-port hub? The Nitro unit specs say their repeater provides for “an elimination of daisy-chaining”.