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The Filmmaker’s Guide to Final Cut Pro Workfl ow<br />
DVD, Blue Laser Optical Disc, P2 Memory Card<br />
Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) is a recordable consumer format, and while it looks great in your living<br />
room, it has few professional applications except as a “screener” format. Although the image is<br />
optimized to look good on SD video, the picture is highly compressed. There are also HD DVDs,<br />
some of which are recorded and played with a blue laser. Blue laser can record much more information<br />
onto the DVD.<br />
Sony has released several cameras and recorders that record to optical disc using a blue laser. The<br />
format is called XD Cam. These devices record in either IMX, DVCam, or HD Cam. The signal is<br />
recorded just as it would be to tape; only in this case, it is recorded to optical disc. The advantage<br />
in recording to optical disc is having no need to log and capture before editing. This is a great advantage<br />
in Electronic News Gathering (ENG). The media can be transferred at high speed in just minutes<br />
to the hard drive, and is ready to edit while still being transferred. There are other features in these<br />
disc recorders that make them attractive to news producers. They can also shoot 24P.<br />
There are high-end optical recorders intended for data storage that can be used to record many<br />
digital video formats. Some experimental formats record directly to optical or magnetic storage<br />
devices.<br />
It is also possible to record to memory card, an example of which is shown in Figure A3.6.<br />
The advantage of this is that memory is extremely fast and can easy record high bandwidth digital<br />
video. The down side is it is expensive and fi lls up rapidly. The Panasonic AG-HVX200 P2 HD<br />
Camcorder can record to HDV tape or to P2 card that stores 16 gigabytes of data, or 16 minutes of<br />
1080i high-defi nition video at 60 FPS. While it is possible to load up to fi ve P2 cards in the camera,<br />
at more than $1,000 per card, many users load only two cards and download the video to drive periodically.<br />
Panasonic also sells a portable drive with P2 slots just for this downloading. It’s also a very<br />
good idea to backup this video to a second drive as soon as possible, even on set, just as a safety<br />
backup.<br />
Figure A3.6 Panasonic 16 gigabytes P2 memory card<br />
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