I'm shooting a job in a couple of weeks. It will involve interviewing about ten people a day for an hour each, for three days. I've got the HVX and I've used it on a couple of small jobs shooting SD (love it) but I'd like to shoot this one HD. Since the Cineporter and FS-100 aren't available yet, do I have any options besides trying to get a ton of P2 cards? If this was a more conventional shoot I wouldn't sweat it but when interviewing real people I like to let the camera roll just in case, so I'm looking at almost thirty hours of footage . . . Anyway, to be honest, I'm not the most technically savvy guy and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. thanks in advance.
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pretopost
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ICow said:
It seems the P2 store is the best and only way to fly solo right now. I have one and it works great. I know that Justyn is fond of it as well and would probably work for you.
The only other solutions would be to offlaod to a laptop which in my opinion is a little cumbersome or tether it to an NLE and capture it straight to Hard Drive. You could hit capture now and hang with your talent until hard drive runs out.
But honestly 30 hours is a lot to pour through for an edit. You might want to set the prerecord on the camera to like 8 seconds and then when something good happens you hit record and you still got it. That might work best then offload to P2 store.
Hope that helps...
dregenthal
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If your camera is locked down (or you're not real clumsy like me) you could rotate three or more P2 cards, off-loading them to a laptop or P2 store . . . I'm thinking you might get about an hour on the P2 store (and then have to off load it to a computer).
You could also live stream to a laptop (or desktop if that would be practical in your environment). I think that you might want to program some "break points" into the interview--even if only just long enough to stop, the re-start the capture . . . breaking your hour long file into files (segments). They would still be awfully big but can you imagine how big one file would be for an hour recording (if thats even possible).
edit: sorry PreToPost, you answer was not visible while I was typing--great minds think alike.
You could also live stream to a laptop (or desktop if that would be practical in your environment). I think that you might want to program some "break points" into the interview--even if only just long enough to stop, the re-start the capture . . . breaking your hour long file into files (segments). They would still be awfully big but can you imagine how big one file would be for an hour recording (if thats even possible).
edit: sorry PreToPost, you answer was not visible while I was typing--great minds think alike.
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Thanks guys, that does help. The pre-record option would be great except the "chunks" of interview I'm looking for will be more like 10 to 20 seconds and I'm afraid by the time I realized something good had been said, I would have missed it. I agree, 30 hours is a lot . . . but my editor is used to my carefree ways when I do interviews. I do have a MacBook Pro I could record to, but my understanding is I would have to go firewire out and would be unable to shoot 24 "native" so my hard drive wouldn't even hold that much. maybe I should just shoot SD to tape and save my HD debut for the next (less footage intensive) job. thanks again.
