Anyone here use a Panny HMC40?

I am looking at the HMC40. I want to shoot on SD cards and load the footage into FCP 7. Anyone know how long this takes to log and load in relationship to realtime? I shoot and edit a lot of same-day videos, so speed is important. I'm currently shooting on MiniDV and loading everything in realtime.
Also any ideas for ideal configurations for optimal speed. Thanks!

Hi, I use an HMC40 with Final Cut 7 with a Jan. 2008 2.8 Ghz Mac Pro (8-core) and a decent SD card reader rather than capturing from the camera. Capturing to ProRes (standard) is much faster than real time. I'd say it's about 1/3 real time - 6 minutes of video imported in 2 minutes. I also have a Jan. 2009 15" Macbook Pro with dual core 2.8 ghz - that does about 2/3 real time - 6 minutes of video in 4 minutes - but that's using an ExpressCard slot SD card reader.
Love the camera! For some great help with it, see dvxuser.com - there's an entire subforum for the HMC40.

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6) On the flip side, what are the real advantages?
Again, I'm interested in hearing others' personal experiences. I can read online a lot about how it's SUPPOSED to work. But in my experience, there are always quirks and issues that are not in the documentation that you can only learn through trial and error, or through asking here on the ever-valuable and helpful COW.
Thanks in advance!

We do - but generally with a different workflow. I can't answer all your questions but a few thoughts. ps. We mostly do short —not feature length— projects.
• For online we most often export the sequence (or a series of sequences) at PR444 with an EDL. Haven't found an online house primed for Premiere in a way that would make it easier than that. (again: generally 5-10min long projects.)
• Premiere CC 2014 is a nightmare. CC was great. But recently upgraded to 2014 and have had nothing but problems related to the app crashing. It only seems to happen on projects that include either mixed media or large files that require caching (for us .MXF files.) Haven't received any helpful advice on how to fix.
• Haven't used Avid in a while but the metadata works great for us in Premiere. The integration with Adobe Story is excellent: doc interview set-up, transcribe dialog, import into Story, synch with Premiere and: get an interactive metadata script that can be searched and clicked (word by word) to the related point in the footage.
• Have also found that the integration with AE —turning a clip into an AE composition in the timeline with one click— is one of the more flawless features. Works great for quick clean-up or adjustments to footage.
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Anyone here using DVDSP to author Games ???

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I'm using Creator 2.1.7, it's the last update before Sonic went with scenarist as their flagship. Beleive it or not, it's still running on OS9. It's a decent system, it has serve me well but it's definitely time to upgrade.
I will meet with the company on Monday and i'll know more about the project, but just from reading the script they sent me, it seems very deep...lots of programming.
I'm new to DVDSP..actually, i just got it this weekend. I was thinking of using it to author smaller projects and get another system for the high end and HD project. It's not an easy decision as what to get since the upgrade from Creator to Sonic HD and Scenarist is over 100K !!! ouch !
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Steadicam, does anyone here use one?

I was looking at a particular videographers work and niced he had extremely stead video and was obviously using a steadicam (of some type).
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You may find getting in and out of the vest / arm a little tedious at a wedding shoot. An option is the Steadicam Merlin which is handheld, a vest and arm are about to be released (or have just been released) to suit the Merlin and you could bye this at a later date. It's nice to have the option though of going without the vest and arm. Be aware though that long shots can be quite strenuous using these small handheld rigs.
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I'm using Creator 2.1.7, it's the last update before Sonic went with scenarist as their flagship. Beleive it or not, it's still running on OS9. It's a decent system, it has serve me well but it's definitely time to upgrade.
I will meet with the company on Monday and i'll know more about the project, but just from reading the script they sent me, it seems very deep...lots of programming.
I'm new to DVDSP..actually, i just got it this weekend. I was thinking of using it to author smaller projects and get another system for the high end and HD project. It's not an easy decision as what to get since the upgrade from Creator to Sonic HD and Scenarist is over 100K !!! ouch !
Anyways, if anyone here has experience using DVDSP for authoring highly interactive games and-or using it for major titles, i love to hear some feedback. Thanks.

JSR 94 Compliant Search Engines: Has anyone here used any?

Folks,
We're currently migrating a 3270 application to a servlet/jsp application. As part of this migration we're
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I've done some research and found out about JSR 94 (the proposed standard API for Rules Engines).
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Did you decide against JSR 94?
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http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=094

There are a number of complient rules engines. however it would seem that the APi development has
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matfud

Anyone here using an Enermax Coolergiant 480watt PSU on their K8N Neo 2 Platnium?

Hello, I just got the K8N yesterday and have have some stability issues when OCing even just a little bit.
Last night the PC crashed and I could not even get some much as a tiny fan spin out of it when turning it on...even the extra fan on the Coolergiant PSU would not so much as move a peep when I turn on the PSU....I reset the Cmos and unplugged everything and rested it for about 10 min...still nothing.
I went to sleep and woke up this morning and it fired up on the second try.
The MSI core center is telling me my 12V rail is around 11.79 and I have seen it dip to about 11.60
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Is anyone here who can confirm that this REALLY works on iMacs?
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I'm sorry I did mean "edit" a JSP. My xcode and terminal comment was meant to say editing with xcode and then starting and stopping tomcat with the terminal. I fully understand that I'll be viewing the results from a browser.
I tried installing Lomboz last night but it didn't seem to help or really have any affect on Eclipse, I still couldn't edit a JSP. I'll work on it some more tonight.
Not sure what the EMF plugin is, though I do understand the "Unbelievable" reference (so at least I have that going for me).
If you can offer any more insight into things now that I've cleared up the "edit vs open" thing please pass then along. I'm just trying to set up a learning environment where I can use JSPs, struts, tiles, EJBs and servlets. It's simple here at work using WSAD but I'm trying to learn more and getting hung up on just getting my testing environment going.
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