P2 downconverting & uprezing

[RY FCP<AVID]

I am wanting to work offline from P2 media, then online after completion of the edit on FCP 6. Can someone please help me with the process of this?

I am thinking that for down converting the P2 media I would use Media Asset Manager? Then for going online I was thinking of dumping the low rez media to an external drive and put the high rez media on the local drive, then reconnect the media in FCP from there. Is this correct? Is there anything else I need?

Thanks

[Jim Carswell]

DVCPROHD is no where near as data intensive as some codecs/formats that are out there (HDCAM/HDV). In fact it is almost as easy for a system to edit as DV. Therefore you are really wasting your time, efforts and resources doing a lower resolution offline than turning around and doing an online edit. When it comes to DVCPROHD offlining has really become an antiquated perspective. That's one of the wonderful aspects of working with this codec.

Jim

[NoahK]

Yeah don't bother with all that- DVCPROHD is a perfect 'offline' editing format and you'll save all the time of a pointless media re-encode. The data rate is so small compared to say ProRes HQ and hard drive space is so cheap these days it makes zero sense to 'offline' a DVCPROHD originated project.

Noah

[David Saraceno]

I have edited 720/24p DVCProHD footage off a bus powered 2.5-inch USB2 drive.

No need to off line unless you have another reason

[RY FCP<AVID]

My main reason for editing offlining is due to the fact that the systems used are nearing full capacity. I can dump some of the footage on to external drives and servers, but there is a lot of media that I need to be on the local drives. Also, I am preparing for a huge sum of P2 media to be edited, which will max out my local HDD space.

I figure that if I work offline on 5 of the editing bays, and have 1 online bay, then I can maximize space on the main 5 cpu's.

Thanks for the input.

[NoahK]

Cmon man- a 1TB hard drive is like $100 these days and that's well over a dozen hours of DVCPROHD. Surely you can afford to beef up your storage capacity a little versus wasting all those hours of encoding offline versions- while the original footage still needs to be stored somewhere anyways otherwise how will you ever properly online. With P2- your hard drive copy is your master- you can't just blow those originals away because there's no tape and no one saves P2 cards until a project is done.

Not to mention all that media management and redoing of timelines to match online resolutions to offline graphics, etc. You'll be wasting many many days just struggling to online something that should never have been offlined in the first place. Offline is something you do with 2K uncompressed material, HDCAM, 35mm film negative but not DV, nor HDV or DVCPROHD. If it's just to save a few bucks you're kinda shooting yourself in both feet with an uzi...

Noah