FINAL CUT FOR GATHERING NEWS

Hi, my name is Nicolas Russo I´m from Argentina, I´m Editor in chief here in Buenos Aires from a new news channel that
has debut on past Monday for the first time and is broadcasted to all Latin America on the cable. The channel has a initial investment of 10 million dollars.
The workflow of the channel is a tapeless workflow based on Panasonic P2 cards and Final Cut pro. I´ve reach this forum because I would like to have feedback with anyone about a
couple of aspects of the Workflow of P2 and FCP,especially about archiving and the logging of the footage. As long as I could research nobody uses FCP as their only platform for news gathering, they used it as part of their workflow but no as we are doing that have all the bays working with it.
I leave you my mail in case someone is interested (please contact me) [email protected]

Welcome to our family.
P2 is a regularly discussed topic around here. Try searching the forum for P2 for many interesting, contradictory and confusing threads.
There is a Spanish FCP forum at lafcpug.org
http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/list.php?3
bogiesan

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