Are laptops already P2 ready?

If you do longform (continuous shooting) your clips will be split into 8GB chunks by default anyway - one card goes onto one disc if you use dual layer DVDs. For shorter shots, you will have as many sets of files as the number of times you started/stopped the camera. You can easily select clips with P2 viewer (free application that comes with the P2 series) and combine them into appropriate volumes. Again, I used DVD as an example because it is available now. Panasonic is part of the bluray thing, which is a data format. I don't know release dates or other details, I'm pretty isolated here, down-under. IMHO, in less than 12 months there will be another solution out there. The big problem is not the technology, is pepole's stuborness to use something different which is outside their comfort zone, even though the new stuff is so much better.
 
PanasonicNZ said:
The big problem is not the technology, is pepole's stuborness to use something different which is outside their comfort zone, even though the new stuff is so much better.
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So true.

-Edalgo
 
Blue ray will be here shortly and it has a minimum (Single side single layer) of 25GB of storage.
Plenty for an archiving format. Also consider that many of us have been spoiled by the DV workflow. With tapes costing under ten dollars an hour we became accostomed to just letting it roll. But this is rarely a good idea. It makes for a much harder post environment and engenders a lack of discipline. You should be able to get anything short of a live event in a 16 minute take (Two 8Gig cards). Otherwise, and don't take this personal because I'm guilty of letting it roll myself, you should refine you craft and plan your shoot better. Also I don't believe the 1080 24P mode would be the right choice for Documentary. I may choose the 720P 24, because it would give me much longer record times, but honestly the 16:9 DV or DVCPRO probably is the best choice. I'm posting a Doc feature shot on the DVX right now and the HD uprez looks dam good. And for 140 plus hours of footage there is reallly no way I could have shot HD, even with P2. Last thing, chances are, no matter how good the HVX is, it won't out perform the DVX in low light, and documentary is definately a genre where you rarely have control of your lighting. Better to have a usable SD image than 1080 lines of black.
 
Edalgo_Alvarez said:
So true.
-Edalgo
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True but...
Shooting uncompressed component directly to harddisk-raid gives extreme high quality but also a very annoying workproces, be it in shooting and editing, or archiving. So witch quality is okay to change your habits?

Burning 13 DVD disks for one hour compressed DVCPROHD material after a long day work is no comfort zone at all. Sure IF the blueray is available, and IF P2 is cheaper and holds more data, and IF editing tools are rocksolid and fast.
 
Sure IF the blueray is available, and IF P2 is cheaper and holds more data, and IF editing tools are rocksolid and fast.
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You don't have to burn 13 DVDs at the end of the day, not unless you shoot one hour of useful footage. I said it two times, this is the third one: I used DVD as a simple example because is avaialble now. Think for instance dual layer - you need 7 discs. Think bluray , you need one double sided disc. Think holographic - a disc will ast for a whole week of shooting. P2 is not media, it doesn't have to be cheap. Three P2 cards is ALL you need. with the money you save on tapes every year you can have a new set of cards every year (also bigger capacity). If you don't like P2, that's fine, you don't have to buy it now, you will eventually go for it when everyone else will have it.
 
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