What about dailies?

You can certainly get a VGA->DVI adapter, or if you can find one a laptop with DVI output. That'll work. Just be aware that if you're using P2 Viewer to view the footage you're not going to be seeing the footage at its best. P2 Viewer is optimized for speed, not for quality. It shows a lot more noise than will actually be in your footage, because it uses the graphics card's hardware acceleration to speed up its playback and graphics cards have MPEG hardware acceleration, not DVCPRO-HD hardware acceleration. The underlying DCT technology is similar enough that it's "close enough" but not absolutely accurate.

So all I'm saying is: if you go this route, don't wig out if you see a bunch of blocky gritty shadow noise -- it's not in your footage, it's the result of the P2 Viewer codec. If you want to see what your footage really looks like, play it back from the camera.
 
Barry_Green said:
Just be aware that if you're using P2 Viewer to view the footage you're not going to be seeing the footage at its best. P2 Viewer is optimized for speed, not for quality. It shows a lot more noise than will actually be in your footage, because it uses the graphics card's hardware acceleration to speed up its playback and graphics cards have MPEG hardware acceleration, not DVCPRO-HD hardware acceleration.
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Interesting. Wish I'd caught on to that earlier. Perhaps it would have saved me a lot of agony that I've been having lately regarding P2 Viewer on my new Sony Vaio laptop. The laptop is an AR550E, Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.8 GHz), 2 GB RAM, with NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT card and 1440 x 900 display. The OS is Vista Home Premium.

Footage from the P2 card looks horrendous on this new machine (a machine intended for hi-def). There is a LOT of aliasing, and horizontal banding that makes the picture look like it was sliced up into 1/4 inch strips and taped back together! The same thing happens when it's output through HDMI to a Sony Bravia 40 inch LCD (that does support full 1080p).

I'm not yet set up enough with the Vaio to view the footage any other way than P2 Viewer. (Haven't tried putting Cineform onto it yet; wonder if it will run under Vista... Editing needs to be on my desktop still...)

I haven't seen any discussion of issues with P2 Viewer (the Vista version). Do others have this happening?
 
If you want to see what your footage really looks like, play it back from the camera.
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So do I have to move the footage back onto a p2 card to do that?

Thanks for the warning about p2 viewer!
 
KMR said:
. . . Footage from the P2 card looks horrendous on this new machine (a machine intended for hi-def). There is a LOT of aliasing, and horizontal banding that makes the picture look like it was sliced up into 1/4 inch strips and taped back together! The same thing happens when it's output through HDMI to a Sony Bravia 40 inch LCD (that does support full 1080p). . . .
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Don't know if you've had the chance to run it direct from the camera to your Bravia yet . . . I've got the same set, and the footage is sweeter than ice cream.
 
dregenthal said:
Don't know if you've had the chance to run it direct from the camera to your Bravia yet . . . I've got the same set, and the footage is sweeter than ice cream.
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I'd run it direct from the camera quite a while ago, and it was beautiful. No concern on that front. It was the new laptop that was scaring me. But after viewing an .avi clip (converted through Cineform), I was put at ease. I suppose Panasonic probably needs to do a little more tweaking with P2 Viewer to make it work a little better under Vista. (Because of other issues with the OS, I am really regretting having settled for a machine with Vista instead of XP...)
 
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