VaricamLife
08-01-2006, 08:27 AM
I asked this as a out of curiousity thing before, but now its become an actual need to know issue, so going to try again. I can't experiment with things because the camera is currently out of the company's possession until the contents shot on it are declassified. So I hoping to get some first hand accounts of 'yes you can' or 'no you can't' just so I know one way or the other. Anyway...
Our overall post workflow is to have a tape workflow so we can offline and online. So I've been transfering all of the HVX materials to a DVCPro DP121 using the AJ-1200. With this whole declassification process though, it can take a few days before someone can view the stuff and sign off on it. But if we want to shoot something right away with the HVX we need to clear off the cards. So okay, easy enough, dump it to a hard drive in the interim.
My question is then can I feel safe that I can copy the materials back to the P2 cards so I can run camera to VTR and make my DP121 masters? Like not just simply make the cards portable hard drives for information, but if I copy the stuff back, exactly like I pulled it off ('LastClip.txt and 'Contents' folder) and shove that back into the camera, will it just recognize it as if I had just shot those materials? That's where my main fear/concern is. And if I put back in Card 1 and Card 2, and there was a clip that was recorded across both cards, will the HVX display it as such when the materials are put back on the P2 after the fact?
Barry I believe said that you can write to the P2 and that he does on a regular basis with a Windows XP machine. For the windows machine Barry, or anyone else, do you recommend using something such as P2 Genie or would just dragging and dropping the shot materials from the P2 onto folders we create ourself be okay? And then of course drag back once I want to put it back onto the P2 for my DVC Pro cassette process. But that is a Windows workflow and well we have nothing Windows based around...
Can anyone confirm the same is possible on a Mac? The only time I tried the mounted P2 card was read only and I couldn't make it read/write (even using get info or such, and I did check to make sure right protection was turned off physically on the card).
Anyway, would appreciate any help or feedback anyone might be able to provide on the matter as for the time being I don't even have a camera to experiment with (but still need to try and sort out this issue). Thanks.
cheers.
Our overall post workflow is to have a tape workflow so we can offline and online. So I've been transfering all of the HVX materials to a DVCPro DP121 using the AJ-1200. With this whole declassification process though, it can take a few days before someone can view the stuff and sign off on it. But if we want to shoot something right away with the HVX we need to clear off the cards. So okay, easy enough, dump it to a hard drive in the interim.
My question is then can I feel safe that I can copy the materials back to the P2 cards so I can run camera to VTR and make my DP121 masters? Like not just simply make the cards portable hard drives for information, but if I copy the stuff back, exactly like I pulled it off ('LastClip.txt and 'Contents' folder) and shove that back into the camera, will it just recognize it as if I had just shot those materials? That's where my main fear/concern is. And if I put back in Card 1 and Card 2, and there was a clip that was recorded across both cards, will the HVX display it as such when the materials are put back on the P2 after the fact?
Barry I believe said that you can write to the P2 and that he does on a regular basis with a Windows XP machine. For the windows machine Barry, or anyone else, do you recommend using something such as P2 Genie or would just dragging and dropping the shot materials from the P2 onto folders we create ourself be okay? And then of course drag back once I want to put it back onto the P2 for my DVC Pro cassette process. But that is a Windows workflow and well we have nothing Windows based around...
Can anyone confirm the same is possible on a Mac? The only time I tried the mounted P2 card was read only and I couldn't make it read/write (even using get info or such, and I did check to make sure right protection was turned off physically on the card).
Anyway, would appreciate any help or feedback anyone might be able to provide on the matter as for the time being I don't even have a camera to experiment with (but still need to try and sort out this issue). Thanks.
cheers.