This Handheld camera from Panasonic boasts some really great features into a tiny package.
It's solid-state recording mechanism utilizes P2 memory storage. It records HD quality video onto Flash memory RAID card.
This camera is much like its vari-cam predecessors, but without the setbacks of using tape!
P2 cards are hot-swappable with your laptop's PCMCIA port, allowing you to offload your video for quick access for editing! This is ideal for ING and ENG real-world applications.
PCMCIA is an acceptable 133MB/sec transfer rate for most applications, and should be enough to handle 100 MBits/sec HD 4:2:2 coming from the camera.
Compatibility with editing shouldn't be a problem, as it is with other HD formats. Final Cut Pro 5 supports this video codec, even though it doesn't support HDV at this point!
If you are in the SF Bay Area you can come down and get hands-on with a unit.
Just give Rental Express Video a call at 415-255-9883 to set up an appointment.
CNET has a great review of the item here.
1 comment:
Does anyone out there have field experience with this process? Hot-swapping P2 cards onto your laptop... What was the DL time? Any faster than the Firestore realtime DL?
I need to shoot HD as a single crewperson -- so that's sound & picture. adding a laptop to my kit gets clunky, but the Firestore takes too long to be practical. dumping straight to the laptop saves me a step later, too.
thanks!
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