Displaying/projecting HD in a venue

Richard Allen Crook

Richard Allen Crook

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I'm going to project my film at a local theatre that has an HD projecter. I figure the ways I can get the film to the theatre are 1) burn a Blueray, or, 2) connect the projector to a laptop.

But I am wondering if I could export the entire 63 minute film onto my P2 cards and bring the HVX to the venue to hook up. I have 2 16gb cards and the film is in 720p, 24fps. I realize that I can't fit it onto one card (since they hold about 40 minutes in that format).

My question is can I split the P2 file into two sections, transferring one to the first card then the other on the second (roughly 32 mintues each) and somehow setup the camera to play through both cards seamlessly without stopping when it switches from one card to the other?
 
Well here's the thing. You can record to both cards seamlessly with 2 cards in the camera. However, when recording over firewire, you can't record in 24pn. It will record your 720p 24p over 60p. So you'll only be able to hold 32minutes total.

There might be a way to export your video as MXF in 720pn, but I would have no idea how or even this is possible.
 
Hmm. I'm not sure what you mean. What I'm saying is to "export" in Panasonic P2 format, then just dragging and dropping back to the camera. (I use premiere, it lets you export the final cut to mxf) That's not the problem I'm having. The problem is that I can't fit the file onto one P2 card, so I have to export the first half and drag it to the first card then export the second half and export it to the second card. What I'm asking is: can I get the camera to play the file continuously over the two cards? Or will I have to select the second card after the first stops playing halfway through the movie and play the second file?
 
Now if you had one file recorded seperately on one card and another file on the second file, will it payback seamlessly from one card to another?

I guess I just need to do it and see of it works.
 
As Jester says.. to get it into the cam.. it has to be on the 59.96 or 60p setting.. I'd done it and now that I have a 16 gig card and the old 4's, I coul get maybe 20 minutes..
 
Like I said, getting it on the cam is not the problem. I've done it many times but with smaller clips. I'm asking if the HVX200 plays from one card to another seamlessly. I've never had 2 cards in the camera before.
 
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YES it does... and it will... that's the beauty of P2. You need to get two cards in there... let them mate and have fun. Another friend of mine was saying the same thing... If you have two.. then you can roll indefinitely as long as you offload the completed one...
 
Awesome. What I'm going to do is export to P2. The first file will be from the beginning of the movie to the end of a scene that's as close to halfway as I can get it. The second file will be from that halfway point to the end of the movie. I'll drag-and-drop the first file on a card and the second file to the other card. Then I'll play back the movie and see if it plays seamlessly from the first file to the second file on the other card. I'll post the results, unless someone on the board has tried this very thing and can post their findings.
 
I guess

I guess

I guess that if you select both clips in MCR mode and press play, the camera will play one clip after the other, as it does when one clip is recorded part in one card and continues on the other card. Anyway I have not tryed it myself. Please report if you do.
Best luck.
 
Okay, it worked just fine. The screening was a success! I xferred appr. 30 minutes to one card, then about 23 minutes to the other card. When the 30 minutes were finished from the first card, the camera seamlessly switched over to the second card automatically and played the rest of the film.
 
Interesting. I may want to do this in the future. Can you list your exact procedures for getting the edited video back onto the card(s) for playback?
 
AdamT said:
Interesting. I may want to do this in the future. Can you list your exact procedures for getting the edited video back onto the card(s) for playback?
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Certainly. Export to P2. (I know Adobe premiere does it, not sure about any other NLE). Use P2 viewer to "drag" the exported file to the camera.
 
I'm doing this quite frequently with EDIUS. Within the P2 Exporter I can select the option "automatically select the next card when card is full".
 
Anyone ever get this to work with FCP? Apple just released FCP 7.0 and I'm wondering if this is now supported?
 
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