How to view DVCPRO-HD directly from HDD (storage) ?

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cici

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Is it possible, to view the hours of DVCPRO-HD from a full external HDD?

Let's say, you store DVCPRO-HD footage on a 500GB HDD and want to view it natively on either a TV-set or with a projector in its full resolution.

Perhaps you just need a notebook.... but what tool will permit you to send the footage in its full quality to your Plasma, LCD or beamer?

Or can you stream it through the camera:

HDD - camera - screen ??

We don't want to transfer and/or convert our footage always to MPEG4 before we view it... do we?
 
You could use P2 Viewer or P2CMS to view the files directly on your computer monitor, but not to pass them out to your external monitors or projectors or TVs.

You can't use the camera as a pass-through, but you could use the P2 Gear as an on-the-fly converter from firewire input, to component or HD-SDI output.

Perhaps the easiest way (on Windows) would be to use a BlackMagic Intensity card, then import the files in Premiere Pro CS3 and play them; they should go out through the intensity. On a Mac, you could do the same kind of thing with Raylight and a Kona card or Intensity Pro card, I think.
 
Thanks for the answer, Barry. That's what I was afraid of....

But I guess it's just a question of a good PC-Monitor and the P2-tools will do it. As for me, I don't have that good HD-monitor yet, but it's just a matter of time until all computers in our environement are equipped with large HD-monitors.

Only question left: do both P2-tools show DVCPRO-HD in full quality (resolution, color-space etc.) ?
 
You mean P2 Viewer? No, it's not the highest-quality way to view the footage. It does a quick decompress, but it's not the best quality. The highest-quality way to view the footage would be through the camera or something like the P2 Mobile or P2 Gear playback devices.
 
Ouch! - Thanks for the answers.

It's always the most secure way to store footage more than one time on different media and so I think I'll just archive my footage

1) as DVCPRO-HD on HDDs
2) as MPEG4 on BDs

That's not only a pretty secure way to archive footage for the next decade(s) - with copying once in a while to new HDDs - but also a way that I'll always be able to view directly my footage on TV with a minimal less of quality that probably won't be noticeable at all.

Thanks for help Barry, probably the future will give us a P2-view-tool for computers with HDMI-output to view footage in full quality on screen.
 
Could you playback off the Hard Drive in PRESENT MOVIE mode of Quicktime on a MacBook Pro with a monitor out cable to a projector?

Ken
 
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