Another AVI Situation

[Cole]

Does anyone know of a camera that produces 1080 24P footage to an AVI file?

I was recently asked to document a few 2 hour presentations with 2 camera angles and they wanted them delivered in AVI at the conclusion of the presentations.

I own an HVX200 and a GH2 and am really only familiar with that workflow. I did discover that I could run the feed from the HVX200 through Adobe OnLocation which captures to an AVI file. But that still leaves camera 2 in a different format.

So I guess what I am after is has anyone ever had to do this, and if so how?

I could have rented another HVX and tried to find another Laptop to capture with but my quote was for using my gear. And I could have captured and converted for them but they wanted it then and there and I don’t think they wanted to increase the budget for conversion time.

It is my understanding that AVI is not a good wrapper for HD but they were fairly insistent. I want to make sure there wasn’t something I was missing.

Thanks for any help.

Cole

 

[JeganRX]

There is essentially no way around this that doesn't involve encoding. They must also be more specific with their "AVI" request. I'm willing to bet that they want an H.263-based AVI file (DivX or Xvid, for example), but there's no guarantee.