Yeah, that's what I figured.

It sure does seem to be a fast conversion process on that P2 video. That is good news.

Thanks again Barry.

As Barry says, it was "import" command to bring in the files.

I see. I do have footage me playing around the camera and my staff shot video of that. I was debating to broadcast that because my english is so horrible. But I guess I will make a clip swallowing the embarrasment.
It does have a lot of information on the screen, I liked it.

My encoding had to hold off because my staff had to give demos.

I'm going to InterBEE for the last minutes to take some still shots of other products.

I will post the video and stills later tonight.

Thank you for the updates Kaku-san!
You're information is very helpful

あなたに感謝しなさい

Steve

As always Kaku if you need extra hosting space for video clips just call on me. Much appreciated,

Here's the link to my blog and I uploaded the clip of taking a closer look at AG-HVX200. Please excuse my horrible English on the clip.

additional more precise information
 

I checked with Panaosnic person today that 4GB on P2 card can be transfered entirely around 2 minutes and 30 seconds. He said it depends on what kind of video is on the data. More movement intensive footage might take little longer (I guess this is because it has to convert to bring them on Mac).

And they are aiming the shipping date in Japan around December 20th.

i tried to download the video but your registration process is impossible for me to accomplish, for whatever reason these pop up boxes pop up and are unreadble by me so i'mnot even sure what i'm doing wrong, any way you can send it to Chris for an upload on his site...

thanks...

Having trouble getting these files also. I only got to see your first file because someone else shared it on a different server. Let us know how to get these.

Thanks!

Nevermind...finally got the confirmatiion email!!!!

Robert,

It is because you are providing invalid email address? It requires validating process with a valid email address.

LCD cluttered?
 

Kaku,
Thanks for the video. It showed us some nice stuff. The LCD looked very cluttered and I was wondering 2 things.

1)was that the 4x3 guide that looked liked 2 vertical lines on the left and right side of the image? IF so it seemed very prominent.

2)that you could find, was there an option of turning off all of the overlays for a clean LCD?

One of the big selling points of PANA staying with the 4x3 LCD was that all the information was above and below the 16x9 area thus leaving the image uncluttered. I came away from your video thinking "damn that looked cluttered"!!

Any thoughts on this? thanks again
Marty

One thing I noticed that the LCD looks smaller than what I used to, FX1.

The two lines seems to be guide for 4x3 frame guide.

When you say cluttered, yeah, it's cluttered. I just thought, yeah, lot of information, but I was more hyped than being calm.

I will send email to Panasonic person in the development team asking about the switch for the overlays. I'm pretty sure they do.

Also, some information from Sumi's DVXFan page that Panasonic could not make the zoom act the same as DVC30 at the slow speed. From the users used to DVC30 felt that HVX200 did not provide super slow zoom ring behavior.

Robert,

I added a photo to the article so you can see the LCD screen. Click it to enlarge.

Now, 2:15am and I have to do interview shooting of Japanese 2005 downhill champion from Honda Racing Team, so I'm going to sleep. Good night.

What about workflows for other non NLE products such as After Effects, Combustion and Shake? As far as I know no current graphics, animation or compositing program can load MXF files. Does this mean for us VFX people that all footage shot on the HVX200 will have to be converted to DVCPRO HD quicktime or uncompressed HD in order for us to do our FX work? Hopefully Apple will add native MXF support built inside of Quicktime so then it will become universal for every program based on quicktime.