Capturing directly from Panasonic HVX 200

I am trying to record directly into final cut from my Panasonic HVX200 without using the P2 cards or external device. does anyone know if and how this is possible?

All you need to do is connect the camera to the computer via firewire, launch FCP, choose the Easy Setup DVCPRO HD 720p60 or whatever matches your camera settings (you cannot record 24PN to anything but the P2 card). Then open the Capture Tool, set your scratch disk and hit CAPTURE NOW.
But this isn't the best way to do this. P2 cards are much better. You'd better familiarize yourself with the proper workflow for this camera:
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/pagewrapper.cgi?forumid=8&page=http://www.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/p2workflow/index.html
Shane

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Capturing 24p from the HVX-200

I just filmed some footage, with the Panasonic HVX-200. I filmed in 480/24p on a tape. when capturing it in FCP do I choose DV50-NTSC 24p, or DV-NTSC 24p in the easy set up menu? I think its DV50, Im just not 100% sure. IF anyone can help me out I would really appreciate it.
Stephen.....

Yup...pretty sure...
#23 Differences between 24p and 24pA
Shane's Stock Answer #23
Quoting Ken Stone's site found at:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/24p_in_FCPnattress.html
24p Normal
When shooting in 24p Normal, the camera is adding normal standard 3:2 pulldown to the video, which results in 24p footage designed to work with any non-linear editing suite and it will play back and look good directly to any NTSC monitor. You can use 24p Normal footage just like normal video from any DV camera, and everything will work fine, but obviously, the footage will have a film look to it. If you’re just going straight back to NTSC video tape, then using 24p Normal is the simplest, easiest workflow. No special treatment of the footage is needed and you really can just edit as normal.
24p Advanced
Before you shoot 24p Advanced, you should fully understand it’s workflow implications. If you watch 24p Advanced footage before you’ve removed it’s pulldown, then it will look a bit jumpy and jerky. This is totally correct, because 24p Advanced is not designed to be viewed as is.
To use 24p Advanced and gain all it’s advantages, you should know that you cannot edit it as is (as this would leave it’s jerky looking pulldown intact), but you must first remove it’s pulldown. Final Cut Pro will do this for you, leaving you with the 24p footage without any of the extra “padding” fields that are added to make it’s frame rate 29.97fps. Now that your footage is 23.98fps, it must be edited on a 23.98fps timeline, and this can cause problems if you, for instance, want to include other footage, B-Roll, or stock footage, that comes from a different source. However, once you have your finished edit at 23.98fps, you can make a 24p DVD, which will allow you to compress your MPEG2 less than if you were making a normal 29.97fps NTSC DVD, and hence attain higher picture quality. Similarly, if you’re making a web movie, you will find it easier to get a higher quality result from 23.98fps media than normal NTSC media. 23.98fps movies are also easier to take out to film that 29.97fps movies.
If you are editing in a 23.98fps timeline, Final Cut Pro will add pulldown on the fly, over Firewire, so that you can see your movie on a normal NTSC monitor. Similarly, it will add pulldown when going back to DV tape. However, this will not work on a non-DV format output, say to Digital Betacam, and slower Macintoshes do not have the power to add 3:2 pulldown in realtime, falling back to lower quality pulldowns which although are not too bad while editing, will not make the final project look as acceptably good on television as a final product.
What that tells me is that 24P just adds a "look" of 24 fps to the footage that resembles that of telecined film, but that you work with normally at 29.97fps. Or, if you want to, you can add a reverse telecine and work at 23.98. Either way.
BUT, with 24PA, the footage looks jittery when played on the tape. So sure, you can work with it and output it to tape, but that tape is useless to anyone OTHER than someone who can capture it and perform a reverse telecine to work with it. It will not work as a Master tape for any viewable purpose: Broadcast TV, projected video from tape, a master tape for dubbing purposes. So, in effect, it is useless as a tape master, and should be avoided.
If you want to have a tape master, shoot and edit 24P at the 29.97 framerate.
Shane

P2 card data from panasonic HVX 200

I have P2 card data [partitions] on an external HDD, formatted specifically to receive data from the Panasonic. I need to move/copy that data on to my internal HDD Mac Pro.
When transferring this kind of P2 data to a drive it will wipe out any previous data on the drive...this is when one runs a 1934 cable direct from camera to external HDD.
Now that the files are in the ext drive, I just don't know if they will corrupt any other HDD I copy them to.
Panasonic are unavailable by phone and I have read all the manuals!!!!!
Please can anyone give some input.
Thanks
catherine

Sounds like you either have a P2 Store, or you are using a P2 Gear with external drive attached where it paritions as it goes along. So that initial behaviour is normal. BUT...how moving those corrupts OTHER drives...makes no sense. Just copy them off into individual folders (All named different, like date and card, 092509_01, _02, _03...
Here...workflow.
P2 Workflow with FCP 6
Shane

Imorting from the Panasonic HVX-200

I have just purchased a Panasonic HVX 200 camera. I am having trouble importing footage shot in high def at 720p at 24fps.
Does anyone out there have the same camera and is using i-movie or Final Cut Pro 5?
I need all the help I can get.

Thanks for your help. What's an F.C.P. 5.0.4?
And where is the access to find the command to unwrap to find the meta data?
Many Thanks, Bill

Panasonic HVX 200, P2 PAL 720P/25P/PN editing

Hi, does anyone know is there coming and when if it, PAL 720P/25P/PN edit to FCP. Is there any other program where you can edit 720P/25PN files on mac? If not, what program for PC is best for that? I bought Panasonic HVX 200 video camera (also, bought new Quad-Mac and 30" studio display) and realized that I can't edit 720P/25PN files on my mac. EVEN THEY says on Apple's page that "View and browse P2 devices, then transfer the files you need directly into the Final Cut Pro 5 Browser....." but did not found that FCP is not supporting PAL ! I put 15 000 dollars on P2 editing system, not to able edit what I want...

720p25 is no officially supported format in general.
Only 720p50 is a real standard. However there is a
so called 2:2 pulldown where you double the frames,
also called 25p over 50p. This only concerns a
transparent video signal via HD-SDI. Speaking about
the Panasonic HVX200 is another story as this is a
file based workflow.
Here you can find an article how to capture, edit and
monitor 720p50 in FCP 5.1:
http://www.aulich-adamski.de/en/perm/720p50-capturing-editing-in-final-cut-pro
This is also helpful for JVC GY-HD users that could use
an HDV to HD-SDI converter.
An second article describes the Panasonic P2 workflow
with 720p25 and 72p50 but it's currently only in german:
http://www.aulich-adamski.de/perm/panasonic-ag-hvx200-720p2550-p2-workflow-mit-f inal-cut-pro

Panasonic HVX-200 in 720p 24N mode

I'm about to edit a project shot on a Panasonic HVX-200 in 720p 24N mode (native 24 fps). The end product is for broadcast television, should I change the quicktime video settings (Compressor) to HDV 720p24? Thanks in advance for any assistance that you can offer. VEC.

HDV? LORD NO! You shot DVCPRO HD...don't muck it up by making an HDV sequence.
Choose the DVCPRO HD 720p24 Easy Setup and you'll be good to go.
Want tips on editing Panasonic P2? Read my blog from the beginning. www.LFHD.net.
Here is a quick tutorial on the P2 workflow with FCP 6:
P2 Workflow with FCP 6
Shane

Panasonic HVX-200 and FCPX import issue

I'm using a Panasonic HVX-200 and having trouble importing the data from the P2 cards into FCPX. I get this error message: The following clip encountered an error during import and is still referencing media on the camera: The files play as long as the camera is connected, which is useless in the long run.

I was on the phone today with several terrific Apple techs for about five hours and we may have gotten to the bottom of this.
FCPX works well with many different recording formats of the HVX 200 and the p2 cards. But I have had issues with importing 720/30PN footage. It just would not work.
After many hours of trouble shooting with me on the phone, the Apple tech was able to replicate the problem on an HVX 200 at their office.
Apparently FCPX works with HVX 200 1080i, 480i, just about any footage except the 720 set.
He opened an inquiry with the FCPX engineering department and they are looking into it.

Output to P2 cards on Panasonic HVX 200

When I print to video using the DVC Pro HD Firewire to a Panasonic HVX 200, the audio goes into mono mode, even though the original file is in stereo. I have a big presentation to more than 400 on Friday. Any thoughts about how to fix this? Here's what I've tried:
1. Went to audio/video settings:av devices. The options button doesn't let me make any changes--and shows eight channels of audio. (When I do print to video and select built in audio, it does play on my computer speakers in stereo.)
2. I've also tried to go into User Preferences:audio outputs. The only thing I could change was the grouping (stereo or dual mono) There was an option fo rchanging the outputs to more than 2, but I don't believe that would work.
If I can't I'll probably need to show it as a DVD instead of in high def., which would be very disappointing.

720 pN24 records 24 frames/sec not 29.97 with pull down added. This means there is a longer time between each progressive frame than people who are used to viewing standard video can get a grip on. It can look "stuttery".
Camera movement while recording at cinematic rates requires very smooth, very deliberate moves as well as attention to the shutter settings.
There is a formula (someplace) that relates camera panning movement to field of view to frames per sec to shutter.
x

Capture Directly From Camera

Hi Lightroom experts
I've been using Nikon Capture so far to capture directly from my camera to my computer... can Lightroom also do this for me?
I've tried a lot of different things but so far I wasn't succesfull with it.
Can anybody help me out here?
Thanks a million,
Mark

I've used Capture exactly as Lee describes, it works fairly well.
My only gripe would be that it doesn't display the last image you captured, you have to move around with the cursor keys, which means walking back to the machine, which somewhat defeats the object...
Damian

Capturing directly from camera causes audio to go out-of-sync

I'm capturing directly from Canon XHA1 camera into FCP7 on my Macbook Pro (onto an external hard drive) via Firewire. I'm also recording to tape in the camera at the same time.
This works fine -- until I stop & start the tape while recording. This causes the audio to go out-of-sync with the video on the Macbook captured file. (I just let the computer keep capturing, while stopping & starting the tape in the camera.)
Is there a setting in FCP7 to alleviate this problem?

YOur not alone.
I use a Sony Z5, and usually doesnt have a issue, but noticed recently that we are having some sync issues out of the blue.
We connect to a MacBookPro via firewire and capture live in FCP.
We have since changed cameras that records onto SD cards, and havent had a issue since. But just wanted to let you know, your not on your own!

Importing Panasonic HVX-200 files into FCP

I just bought a Panasonic HVX-200 camera and am having problems importing my footage. The P2 card is mounted on my desktop (it is attached via firewire to a external hard drive) and I see all the media files (audio/clip/proxy/icon/ video/voice). According to the manuel I launch FCP and within the File/Import menu I should see "Panasonic P2". This is not there. I am unsure how to proceed.
Thanks!

File>LOG AND TRANSFER...if you are using FCP 6.
I have a tutorial...
P2 Workflow with FCP 6
Shane

Panasonic HVX-200 support

Does anyone know if FCP Express HD supports the new Panasonic hvx-200?
Kevin

No. FCE3 only works with DV or HDV material. The HVX-200 shoots Pansonic's own proprietary format of HD.

Capture Video from Panasonic AG-HMC40

I am having trouble capturing video from my camera - Panasonic AG-HMC40 HD camera
I keep getting a message: Capture Device Offline.
I am able to capture from iMovie and Final Cut X....
Does anyone know the correct capture settings?

You don't have to capture. You ingest.
IE: Copy files from your camera memory card onto your hard drive using the media browser.
See extract from Adobe Help below:
Import assets from file-based sources with Media Browser
You can import assets into Premiere Pro directly from tapeless media. However, it is more efficient to transfer tapeless media contents to a hard disk before importing. Also, playback performance is much better from a dedicated internal hard drive or RAID than from a camera or memory card reader.
Use the Media Browser, instead of File > Import, to import files from tapeless sources. The Media Browser assembles the relevant files into coherent clips, and does not import irrelevant non-media files sometimes found in the folders of tapeless media.
(Optional) Transfer the entire contents of one or more P2 cards, Sony Compact Flash cards, XDCAM media, XDCAM EX SxS cards, hard disk camcorders, DVDs, or AVCHD media to a hard disk. For information about transferring these media, see About transferring files.
Note: For XDCAM EX, copy the entire BPAV folder and its contents, not just one MP4 file at a time.
If the Media Browser is not already open, select Window > Media Browser. Note: You can dock or group the Media Browser like any other panel in Premiere Pro.
Browse to the folder containing the media files. The Media Browser shows a thumbnail or icon (depending on the format) and shot name for each shot in the folder. The Media Browser automatically aggregates spanned clips and shot metadata from the subfolders into single clips for any of these formats. The Media Browser shows different sets of metadata for different formats.
(Optional) To preview a shot before importing it, double-click the shot in the Media Browser. Premiere Pro plays the clip in the Source Monitor without importing it into the Project panel.
Either select File > Import From Browser, drag clips from the Media Browser into the Project panel, or drag clips from the Media Browser into a timeline.
The asset or assets are imported into the Project panel as whole clips.

Can FCE 4 import directly from Panasonic Hard Disk Drive camcorder

I have FCE 3.5, and to import from my Panasonic SDR-H18 hard disk drive camcorder I need to convert from MPEG-4 to DV using MPEG Streamclip.
Can I import video directly from my Panasonic via a USB port to FCE 4, reading MPEG-4 without converting to DV.

FCE can only capture via FireWire.
FCE 4 will only capture DV and AVCHD. It won't capture the MPEG formats used by standard definition HDD and DVD cameras.

Possible to capture direct from monitor?

Hi,
Is it possible to capture video directly from my computer monitor. I want to create a video tutorial on running some programs. I don't really know anything about the video software, I bought the CS5 master collection for the other programs. So, I just wondered if any of them can do it before I spend $40 on FRAPS.
Thanks.

Check out CamStudio; it's a free screen recording program.
Note that if you use the CamStudio codec, you'll have to transcode the files to a different codec as the CS codec is not 64-bit. You can also Google for 64-bit screen capture codecs, and use one of those.

Capturing directly from Panasonic HVX 200

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