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Computer/OS specications:Pentium 4 3.0GHz or better

5MB o RAM, recommended GB

Windows XP (Home or Pro) with Service Pack

DirectX 9.0 or later

Graphics card with hardware-based DirectDraw overlay and 3-bit color display at 04x768; 8MB o memory is required

when editing HD

One ree USB . or .0 port or hardware dongleA sound card

EDIUS Broadcast version 3.6 or later (must be Broadcast)

Overview:This paper will provide current and prospective P customers a step-by-step understanding o how to use P with Canopus

EDIUS Broadcast. Please note, EDIUS Broadcast is a specic version/package o Canopus/Grass Valley EDIUS sotware.

P is not supported in Canopus EDIUS Pro; only the Broadcast version has support or MXF les, P cards, and DVCPRO-

HD. Also, a hardware dongle is required or access to the MXF, P, and DVCPRO-HD eatures o EDIUS Broadcast!

The basic P workfow described is available or use with the AG-HVX00, AJ-HPX000 and other Panasonic P HD

camcorders. Please contact Panasonic or urther details, or, visit http://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/home.asp

Acquisition In The Field:Footage must be acquired in normal MXF-compatible means, principally on P cards or on the FireStore FS-00. I

acquiring on P cards:

a) Footage can be edited directly rom the cards

b) Footage on the cards can be transerred to the P Store Drive (model AG-PCS060G), and edited directly rom

the P Store.

c) Footage on the cards can be transerred to a hard disk, and edited rom that hard disk. In order to provide

compatibility across multiple Operating Systems and computer platorms and non-linear editing systems, we

suggest purchasing disk drives that are already ormatted FAT 3. Some P camcorders (such as the AJ-HPX000) can supply BUS power, and some (such as the AG-HVX00) cannot. Make sure your hard disk can be

appropriately powered by your camcorder, or by battery power, or by AC adapter. Additionally, always copy the

entire CONTENTS Folder (video, proxy, etc), as well as the LASTCLIP.TXT le. Please note, this drive is generally

intended as an intermediate storage device and will not necessarily provide enough throughput or editing.

Acquisition In The Studio:Footage may be acquired using any o the above means; additionally, ootage can be captured directly by EDIUS Broadcast

through an IEEE 394 interace cable. EDIUS supports 394 capture o DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO-HD 70p, and

DVCPRO-HD 080.

Regardless o how you acquire ootage, its vital that you archive it beore erasing your P cards. Whether archiving to tape,

or optical disc, or hard disk, make sure that you copy the entire contents o the card (CONTENTS older and LASTCLIP.TXT

le) to an archival media beore ormatting or erasing the cards. See the Archiving section at the end o this paper or

more details.

Also, the P Viewer is a ree application and a helpul solution or viewing and copying P card content to a disk drive / PC.

This sotware also supports metadata, voice memos, and text memos. Please contact Panasonic or urther details, or, visit

http://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/home.asp


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Preparing For The Edit:When rst starting an edit session, you must make sure that the hardware dongle is inserted in one o your computers USB

ports, and then you should run the EDIUS Pro editing sotware.

Choose to start a New Project:

Next, choose the type o project that matches the timebase and resolution o the ootage you intend to edit. EDIUS Broadcast

supports standard-denition in 4:3 and 6:9, and high-denition, in various rame rates. Choose the mode that best

matches your ootage.


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For DVCPRO-HD 70p, choose one o the Canopus HD 70p presets; or a 70/4pN project choose Canopus HD

70/3.976p over 59.94p; or a 70/30pN project choose Canopus HD 70/9.97p over 59.94p.

For DVCPRO-HD 080, choose the appropriate Canopus HD 080 preset: either 080/60i, or 080/30p over 60i, or 080/4p

over 60i (or 080i/4p ootage), or 080/4pA over 60i (or 080i/4pA ootage).

For DV or DVCPRO, choose one o the DV NTSC presets; choose 6:9 or 4:3 and also select your rame rate (either normal

60i, or 30p, or 4p, or 4pA).

For DVCPRO50, choose one o the Canopus SD50 NTSC presets, either 4:3 or 6:9. Be aware that you can reely mix and

match ootage timebases and resolutions; you can intermix 080 ootage and 70 ootage and SD ootage, you can also

intermix 30p and 4p ootage all on the same timeline. EDIUS Broadcast will conorm any ootage to match the preset that

you select here.

Preparing Footage For Import:I the ootage currently exists on P cards, no preparation is necessary. P cards can be read by either a PCMCIA/CardBus

slot on a laptop computer, or through an AJ-PCD0 or AJ-PCD0 P Drive, or through an AG-PCS060G P Store (when the

P Store is being used as a pass-through slot), or through a USB-equipped P Camcorder such as the AG-HVX00 when in

USB Device mode.

I the ootage has been captured through 394 live capture, no preparation is necessary; EDIUS will automatically add

captured ootage les to the project bin.

I the ootage has been transerred to a hard disk or is currently on a P Store, no preparation is necessary; just plug in

the hard disk. I the ootage is on a P Store, plug the P Store into a USB .0 port (and ensure that the P Store is in PC-

compatible mode). The P Store can appear to the computer in one o two ways:

a) As a series o sequential external drive letters (such as J:, K:, L:, etc) where each card thats been copied

to the P Store appears as its own drive, or

b) As one large external drive, where each card thats been copied to the P Store appears as its own

subdirectory on that drive.

I ootage was acquired on the FireStore FS-00, you will rst have to run the FireStore Organize P command beore

attempting to import ootage into EDIUS Broadcast. Attach the FireStore via a 394 cable; make sure to plug the cable into

the FireStores COMPUTER I/O port, not its DV I/O port.

Importing Footage:EDIUS Broadcast has the ability to directly import Ps MXF les. While it is technically possible to drag les rom your

computers desktop or Windows Explorer windows and drop them right into

a bin or the timeline, this is not the recommended workfow. There is a

much better way: using the P Select tool.

In the upper let corner, click the EDIUS menu, and choose TOOLS, and then

P SELECT.

The P Select window shows available P cards, and clips that are on those

cards, and olders. P cards (or volumes on a P Store) are shown by

drive letter (in the above example, K: is an actual P card, and the name

AAC05B008 is the serial number o that card). The list also shows

various olders that have been added as virtual P cards. To add a new


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older to the available list, choose

the Add Folder button. To view the

contents o any older or card, select

it in that list in the above example

were viewing the contents o the

card itsel.

Once youve selected a card toimport rom, you can choose which

particular clips to import. Select

the clips via thumbnail; SHIFT-click

or CONTROL-click to select multiple

clips to import.

Also, choose the method o

importing youd like to use. Direct

Import will immediately add the

clips to your project bin, but will

leave the les where they are(ideal or editing directly rom a P

card, or rom an external hard disk

where youve already ofoaded

your clips). Copy and Import will

copy the les o o the source directory and make a duplicate on your computers hard disk in the Work Folder that you

speciy. It will then import the duplicate les into your bin.

Using the P Select tool is the best way to add les to a project. The P Select tool will import all necessary les audio,

video, metadata, etc. and keep them all together throughout the editing process. While it is possible to simply drag a

video le rom a P older right to your bin, this is not recommended because only the video would be imported audio

and metadata would not automatically be imported. However, using the P Select tool, all components are brought in andkept together.

Using Copy and Import allows you to copy les to your computers hard disk, thus reeing up the P card or P Store

or FireStore to be erased and used again in the eld. Using Direct Import allows you to edit up to six streams o high-

denition ootage right o o a P card, instantly.

Outputting Footage:Once your project is edited, you can export the ootage in a variety

o ways, including directly back to a P card or to a virtual card

on a hard disk or other archival media.

First, click on the Export button:


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Then choose Export->Print to le

This brings up the Export dialog box.

You can choose to export your ootage in any

variety o ways, but or the purposes o this

document well demonstrate how to export

your ootage back out to a P card (or to a

virtual card on a hard disk).


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Choose HD P Clip Exporter.

This dialog box presents several options or exporting your

ootage, and what metadata settings youd like to add, as

well as whether youd like to have the ootage span across

multiple cards i your exported ootage is too large to t on

one card.

First, or determining where the ootage will be exported to:

You can export directly to a P card (mounted in an appropriateP reader), or to a older on a hard disk. The P Exporter will

automatically create the P CONTENTS older and associated

subolders in the directory that you speciy.

Next, you can set the User Clip Name and metadata.

User Clip Name does not change the name o the les on the

card (i.e., the le will still be named according to standard

P naming conventions, such as 000BG.MXF); instead,

speciying a User Clip Name writes your selected name into

the metadata o the P les. You can also load a metadata le

rom a previously-saved XML le.


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Exporting Footage To Other Formats:Nothing about EDIUS Broadcast, or the MXF workfow, limits you to only working with the les as MXF or P les. You can

o course export your ootage to DVD-compatible MPEG- les, or downconvert to standard-denition (even DV les), or to

any ormat. Use the Canopus ProCoder tool to export les in a ormat other than P MXF le ormat.

Archiving Footage:P cards are not necessarily permanent data storage media items; many people use them as temporary containers, in

that they ll them up with ootage, use that ootage, and then archive the ootage onto a permanent storage ormat beorere-using the card. I editing straight rom the card, you can archive either beore or ater the edit process. But i you intend

to erase the card and record more ootage onto it, obviously its vital to properly archive the cards contents beore erasing

it.

Data rom a P card should not be thought o as video data; instead, it is computer data and should be archived as such.

You do not need to archive your P data onto video tape; instead, you can archive onto any computer-readable media. I

you explore the data on a P card youll see that each P 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 ootage on external removable hard disks

b) exporting to data DVD-R or DVD+R

c) exporting to data Blu-Ray or HD-DVD optical discsd) archiving ootage on data tape drives such as DLT or LTO tapes

e) archiving ootage onto DVCPRO-HD video tape

When archiving, you want to store all the originally-recorded data, in its original orm. Dont just archive certain portions or

certain les, but back up the entire contents o the card. Additionally, it is vital to keep and preserve the directory structure

and archive the entire CONTENTS directory and the LASTCLIP.TXT le, i any.

To archive to an external hard disc, create a new directory on the external hard disc or each card you intend to archive (or

example, i you had three cards to archive on to your external drive K: youd create the ollowing olders: K:\Reel_\,

K:\Reel_, and K:\Reel_3). Then simply use Windows Explorer to drag the complete contents o the appropriate P card

(dragging the CONTENTS and LASTCLIP.TXT) into one o those directories on your external hard disk.

Another common archival process is to use optical discs, such as recordable data DVDs. A 4GB P card can be archived

onto a regular 4.7GB DVD-R or DVD+R; an 8GB P card can be archived onto a dual-layer DVD-R. 6GB and larger cards

may be able to be archived onto data Blu-Ray or dual-layer HD-DVD discs. To archive onto a data DVD-R youll need a DVD

burner as well as a DVD burning application (such as Nero AGs Nero) which supports making data DVDs. Note: you do

not want to create a playable video DVD, you want to create a data DVD. Then, using your DVD burning application, create

a data DVD image that consists o one cards CONTENTS and LASTCLIP.TXT and burn one DVD per card.

Data tape (such as DLT or LTO tape) can be used to archive large amounts o data; an LTO-3 tape holds hundreds o

gigabytes o data. Use a data backup program to create large archives o card data directly onto high-capacity LTO or DLT

tapes.

It is also possible to archive your DV data les onto DV tape, or your DVCPRO50 les onto DVCPRO50 tape, or DVCPRO-HD

data les onto DVCPRO-HD tape. This workfow would involve importing the les into an EDIUS timeline, and then using

the Export button to Export->Print To Tape unction. Archiving to videotape is a amiliar process, but archiving to a data

storage medium (such as hard disk, optical data disc, or data tape) oers signicant advantages over archiving to video

tape (including preserving all the metadata and the clip-based nature o the ootage.) Footage that is archived to video tape

becomes video data and would need to be captured back into the computer i re-editing is necessary. Footage that is

archived onto a data storage medium can be simply restored and all the clips and metadata will be restored to exactly the

same state as when they were archived.


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Written by Barry Green, Fiercely Independent Films Inc., March 007. Barry Green is the author o The HVX Book and The DVX Book and publisher

o several training DVDs or P products.

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