Re: Advice: Workflow with FCP- P2 cards or HDV

[Katrina Lynn] " I can tell that most of us would like to have little tapes to label and put aside just in case. "

Well, you can have those little tapes with either camera. With the Sony you will be shooting HDV or Dv and with the HVX you will be shooting DV only to tape. All of the HVX's HD formats are to P2 card.


[Katrina Lynn] "he wants to make sure it's not something that will cause a huge number of changes before deciding on it."

You don't indicate if you are planning on moving your productions to HD. If this is the case then it won't matter which camera you decide on there will be changes. If you can post a little more about your goals in purchasing these cameras are then maybe you can have a more concrete answer.


[Katrina Lynn] "Currently, we're using an RS-422-controlled DV or Beta deck going into an AJA Kona going IEEE 1394 into the Mac G5."

Do you mean an AJA IO? The Kona is a card that installs in the computer. Is this how you are capturing your DV material as well as the Beta stuff?

Your capture process will change (maybe) with both of these cameras. With the Sony you will capture in real time over firewire. With the Panny, using P2, you will transfer files with FW or USB.

[Katrina Lynn] " We have an external XServe with about 3 TB of space, but it's generally pretty full (with only 400 GB or so free at one time). "

You need more storage.

Tell us a little more about what you want to do with this and you will get some good opinions.

K