Data management is very important in the tapeless world. In the tape world, you think on the fly because you have your shot sheet and can improvise; plus, tape is cheap. But with P2 cards, shot sheets are even more important because you can run out of space quickly. Shooting DVCPRO HD 1080i at 60i uses a gig per minute. An 8 gig card holds eight minutes of footage at a time. Having multiple P2 cards will help eliminate the downtime needed to transfer files into a P2 store. Also, having a P2 Store or Panasonic AJ-PCS060 60 gig portable storage drive is a must out in the field. This drive can download your P2 cards so you can reuse them over and over again. For extra safety, I like to back up each P2 card on a DVD.
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Comments (6) for "Maximize Your Workflow with P2 Cards and Avid Xpress Pro HD"
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Not everyone can use DVCPRO HD 1080i as their source format with Avid Xpress Pro HD. That\'s about the only format Avid natively supports.
We use Sony HDV and it is much more complicated to get the files transferred into the Avid - but it can be done!
(Contact me if you want to know more...)
Posted by Robin McCain on Monday, January 14, 2008 @ 01:27 PM
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We're seeing P2 Varicam shot at 720p23.98. Inevitably there are issues with that footage, especially when a daVinci color correction session is part of the overall workflow. How to best cope?
Posted by Terry Lockhart on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 @ 04:35 PM
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This article seems like a good starting place, but I could use information on workflow from P2 on Xpress Pro when you need to edit from low res and then later do a hi res version.
Posted by Jim Bedford on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 01:01 PM
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Wow, Cool it worked. first time too. keep this guy!
Posted by Billy on Friday, April 11, 2008 @ 01:15 AM
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Hi Scott, just wondering if you can help. We're trying to get an edited sequence back on the p2 card, so it can be played on the camera.(Long story) Do you know if this is even possible? We are editing on Avid Media Composer. Please give any advice if you can.
Posted by Kassi Day on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 10:58 AM
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write Avid MediaFiles no spaces between media files
Posted by arte on Friday, October 3, 2008 @ 11:02 PM
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