William Carr
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Hey Jim was right– there’s good info here towards the end of a thread on the subject of maximum clip length for the GH2:
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Thanks, Jim, I will try that forum!
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That’s a helpful bit of info! We do want ambient audio.
The GH2 has a convoluted AC rig from Panasonic that gets bought as an option, as 2 separate items. Were you using an off-brand unit?
I bought an off-brand battery extra charger for my GH1 and had to literally throw it away; not only did it not charge correctly but smelled smokey in the process. -
Jeff, that means the Ninja is essentially– or factually– a real-time back-up device that provides duplicate clips in intraframe (ProRes).
And as per John, who has discovered with trial and tribulation there is no happy outboard record solution for the GH2, it’s back to the technical issue of: is there a limit on the capacity of the SD card usable in the GH2?
I may have to buy one to find out– the 128GB unit, such as:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/839981-REG/SanDisk_SDSDRX3_128G_A21_128GB_SDXC_Memory_Card.html -
I have 2 GH2 kits! Will use both.
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Excellent info, we have 7 hours so far. I get the feeling I need to buy a card even before budget comes in, to make the reality test of this.
Meanwhile, does anyone know if there is a technical limit to the capacity of card usable in a GH2?
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So a practical question is, assuming power is uninterrupted, will a GH2 run that long if the card can take it?
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The art project is an expression of an idea, manifested in a way that’s as singular as possible; like many conceptual art performance pieces it’s trying to make a physical point about something that’s otherwise purely mental, so it involves extremes of behavior that are out of the ordinary.
Some of its themes are endurance and patience, so the documentation of the thing is meant to parallel the performance itself– someone motionless outside from sunrise to sunset. On the day scheduled at the location in the southeast, daylight is a bit longer than 11 hours.
The video is not a documentary, it’s an eyewitness account that proves the performance was real. Only the camera will have seen the performance (a twist on “if a tree falls in the forest”).
The video will be shown from a computer, once a day, in a subsequent exhibit alongside other artifacts from the performance.
Since the video is supposed to be an unbroken stream, the editing process may be more of a conversion process; that will be the next issue to figure out!
Meanwhile, a 12-hour capture is the challenge at hand!
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Well that’s an interesting thought.
A proper test would be a concerted effort, to try it with a large amount of material. But a small scale test is a good idea. After this major deadline I’ll give that a try with the same set of 1080 sequences.
Anybody know right out of the gate if this is a possible productivity improvement, or not?
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Well, that’s the question! Hard to test since the overall time savings might be a difference between (let’s say) 41 hours and 45 hours. A little bit can go a long way in allowing a few extra hours for the next step in the workflow.
It’s the kind of thing where someone might just technically know there is or isn’t an overall greater efficiency in using a 2nd drive this way, even without a 2nd bus.
Shane’s point seems pretty logical, which I take to mean that the processor is slower than the read/write throughput of each frame.