Control max clip length/size??

[fgiraffe]

Wasn't sure whether to post this here in Workflow or in the FCP section, but thought I'd try here first:

I'm assistant editing on a doc being shot on a HVX200A. We're editing in FCP.

Most of the work is interviews shot with 1 shooter and 2 cameras, and it disrupts the flow of the interview for the shooter to stop and start the cams every question.
The director's preferred workflow is to transcode entire clips (Log and Transfer the entire P2 volume, no in and out points set).
And they use a 64G P2 card.

So the clips are long. And large (e.g. 12G, 20G, etc). The clips are painful to load, scrub through, we have to create new smaller master clips when we use SmoothCam, etc.

Is there a way to tell the HVX to automatically start a new clip at certain limits (e.g. 4G, or 5 minutes, or...?). I looked through the manual but didn't see anything (and wasn't sure what Panasonic language I should be looking for).

Thanks in advance
-Frank

(and I note the irony of looking for a way to cap max clip size when I see the old complaints of people hitting the 2G limit!)

 

[fgiraffe]

Hmm, so from the lack of replies can I take that it is NOT possible on the camera settings to limit the maximum file size or clip length on the HVX200A?

 

[David Jimerson]

The long clips already are divided into 4 GB segments to accommodate the file size limitation of the FAT32 format of the P2 cards.

If smaller clips are what you want, they're already that way, but your director needs to change his workflow.