Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight
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- Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 1
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.DVFILM.com. Vegas 7.0 (and earlier) has no support for DVCPRO50, DVCPRO-HD, or MXF files from P2 cards; you must use Raylight to have access to AJ-HPX2000 and other Panasonic P2 HD camcorders. Please contact Panasonic for further details, or, visit http://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/home. - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 3
http://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/home.asp Preparing For The Edit: When first you've first installed the Matrox DVCPRO50 codec available for download at: http://www.matrox.com/video/support/ds/software/codec/home.cfm Run the Raylight Control program (raylightControl.exe) to set your default - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 4
Preparing Footage For Import: Raylight provides several ways to work with footage from P2 cards. Primarily you can choose to either: 1) edit the MXF files in applications other than Vegas, whereas the Raylight plug-in only brings support for MXF files within Vegas. If you wish to use your footage - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 5
to .AVI format first. As more and more programs begin to support the MXF file format the necessity of converting MXF files into .AVI or AJ-PCD20 P2 Drive, or through an AG-PCS060G P2 Store (when the P2 Store is being used as a pass-through slot), or through a USB-equipped P2 Camcorder such as the - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 6
MXF video files are found. It is recommended that you always specify a new directory for the output footage, especially for footage that's still on a P2 card. You should use the "User selects output folder" checkbox and path to specify a new output directory so that Raylight will put all the created - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 7
These .AVI files will contain all the original, unmodified DVCPRO-HD data that the MXF files contain. This is the most this list, depending on what the particular contents are of your P2 card or your hard disk.) Press "Start" and RayMaker will problem; it's just the way the system works.) - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 8
settings, as Vegas doesn't include project presets for all the possible DVCPRO-HD projects. Here are the appropriate project settings for the various DVCPRO-HD formats: For 720p/24P: For 720p/30P: For 720p/60P: For 1080i/60i, the existing "HD 1080i/60i" preset can be used, or you can use this: Note - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 9
For 1080i/24PA you can use the existing "HD 1080-24p" preset, or match these settings: Raylight can strip out the 2:3:3:2 pulldown from 1080i/24pA footage (or 480i/24pA footage) either when creating new . - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 10
card or to a "virtual card" on a hard disk or other archival media. Raylight 2.02 cannot render out a standard-definition file back to a P2 card, but it can export high-definition files to a P2-compatible MXF file. To render out a P2-compatible DVCPRO-HD MXF file, first choose File->Render As... 10 - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 11
file export attributes. Click on the "Video" tab, and set the parameters according to what type of file you want to render out. For DVCPRO-HD 1080/24P, use the following settings: For DVCPRO-HD 1080i/60i, use these settings: For DVCPRO-HD 1080i/30p, use these settings: 11 - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 12
When working with DVCPRO-HD 720p, you can use the same basic template for all possible export modes, changing only the frame rate. settings for outputting a 720p/60p project, change the "Frame rate" option to "59.940 (Double NTSC)": For all DVCPRO-HD exports, the Audio tab should be set like this: 12 - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 13
a Raylight .AVI file. Note that a Raylight .AVI file uses the same DVCPRO-HD codec as the original MXF or RayMaker .AVI, so no recompression or quality loss will button. If you want to export directly to a P2 card, type in the Drive Letter of where your P2 card is mounted. If you don't know the drive - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 14
each P2 card is viewed by the computer as a removable-storage disc drive. It should be archived just like you would archive any disc drive. Common archival methods include: a) storing the footage on external removable hard disks b) exporting to data DVD-R or DVD+R c) exporting to data Blu-Ray or HD - Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder | Understanding P2 Workflow: Vegas and Raylight - Page 15
use Windows Explorer to drag the complete contents of the appropriate P2 card (dragging the entire CONTENTS folder and LASTCLIP.TXT file) -layer HD-DVD discs. To archive onto a data DVD-R you'll need a DVD burner as well as a DVD burning application (such as Nero AG's "Nero") which supports making
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