So I have been shooting with a new Panasonic P2 camera since early June and love it. The more I use it, I am finding the workflow can be a little nerve wrecking at times in terms of the editing.
I notice when I plug my camera up to our editing system (Grass Valley) via USB and put camera in device mode, everything on ALL of my cards shows up in my P2 bin! So I removed the other cards and left the one I need in the camera. That solved that.
I always have the reporter do their tracks in camera and I write down the time code for each good track. The thing I hate is when those "tracked" clips show up in my P2 bin, I can't find them fast enough. I mean I see them there and changed the view to View Thumbnails but sometimes it will be cued up to the wrong take or something...I will have to play more with this to figure out how I can select track 1 and drop to the timeline faster than how I am doing it. I guess if I had extra time I could create a subclip and then copy that to the timeline but time is of the essence on my shift when it comes to editing! LOL!
If your using a P2 camera I would be interested in seeing what kind of workflows you use. I know there is more than one way to work in the P2 workflow format. Just trying to learn some other ways that might be faster than how I am doing it.
Chuck
I notice when I plug my camera up to our editing system (Grass Valley) via USB and put camera in device mode, everything on ALL of my cards shows up in my P2 bin! So I removed the other cards and left the one I need in the camera. That solved that.
I always have the reporter do their tracks in camera and I write down the time code for each good track. The thing I hate is when those "tracked" clips show up in my P2 bin, I can't find them fast enough. I mean I see them there and changed the view to View Thumbnails but sometimes it will be cued up to the wrong take or something...I will have to play more with this to figure out how I can select track 1 and drop to the timeline faster than how I am doing it. I guess if I had extra time I could create a subclip and then copy that to the timeline but time is of the essence on my shift when it comes to editing! LOL!
If your using a P2 camera I would be interested in seeing what kind of workflows you use. I know there is more than one way to work in the P2 workflow format. Just trying to learn some other ways that might be faster than how I am doing it.
Chuck