Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 P2 Cards Offer Outstanding Mobility and Reliability, Clip Thumbnail Function

The P2 HD being used in Alaska. Because no condensation or head clogging occurs with P2 equipment, it offers reliable operation under extremely harsh shooting conditions.

The P2 card features an original design to ensure higher durability and reliability than ordinary optical, disk, and solid-state recording mediums.

This shows the text memo editing window of the provided Windows PC software, P2 Viewer. A list of memos is shown on the right side. The clip time line below the view window shows the memo marks. Text can be written to an empty memo space created by the camera-recorder. Memos can also be added, deleted or moved.

P2 Cards Offer Outstanding Mobility and Reliability

The 16-GB*1P2 card (AJ-P2C016RG) offers great flexibility and interoperability with leading NLE systems and boasts a high data transfer speed of 640 Mbps*2 max. This solid-state memory card is highly resistant to shock and vibration, so it brings high reliability and mobility to outdoor shooting. It lets the camera start recording immediately from standby mode, and allows shooting to start within two seconds of turning the power on. This speedy response shortens downtime when replacing batteries, and greatly cuts down on battery power consumption by letting you turn the power off during standby. P2 cards can even be exchanged with the power off. Recorded data is automatically stored in blank card areas with no cueing required. This eliminates the risk of accidentally overwriting valuable data.

*1: Total card capacity includes space for data management such as system data, so the actual usable area is less than the capacity indicated on the card.

*2: This data transfer speed is a theoretical value. The actual data transfer speed varies according to the operating condition and devices.

Recording Functions with Five P2 card Slots

With five ultra-reliable 16GB P2 cards installed, the HPX3000 can capture up to 100 minutes of master quality 1080 24p content. It also provides several entirely new recording functions that are possible only with memory cards.

•Card selection: The recording slot can be changed (sequential switching) even during recording. This lets you review, organize and transmit just recorded content on an AJ-HPM100 P2 Mobile, or, off-load content to a non-linear editing system for quick editing, without interrupting the recording. the recording. Recorded content can also be organized while shooting, by switching cards for each scene category.

•Hot-swap-rec:You can replace a full memory card with a blank one while the P2 cam is recording onto a second card. Successively swapping cards this way gives you virtually unlimited recording capability.

•Loop-rec:By loop recording onto a specified recording area, you can continue to record over a fixed area.

•Pre-rec:While in standby mode, you can continuously store, and subsequently record, up to 8 seconds of video and audio. In effect, this lets you record footage of events that occur even before you press the rec start button, giving you a way to "go back" and capture moments you otherwise would have missed.

•Interval rec: This gives you automatic intermittent recording based on a set interval and recording time.

•One-shot rec: This frame-shot recording function is useful for producing animations.

Clip Thumbnail Function

The P2 cam automatically generates a thumbnail image for each clip. You can view thumbnails on the AJ-HPX3000's 3.5" color LCD monitor, or, by connecting the camera’s Monitor Out to a separate display. Any of the clips can be accessed instantly. Thumbnail images can be paused, fast- forwarded, and reversed just like a tape, and unwanted cuts can be deleted by selecting and deleting the corresponding thumbnail image. You can also specify a number of clips for seamless playback* or on-air broadcasting. And if a shooting opportunity should arise during playback, the P2 cam lets you start recording immediately with no cueing required and no risk of accidentally overwriting valuable data.

*Seamless playback is not possible between clips recorded in different formats.

Text Memo (Bookmark) for Simple Editing

When recording or previewing a clip, press the Text Memo button at any of up to 100 locations and a text memo label, similar to a bookmark, is registered. Using only the P2 cam, you can create a new clip with data copied between text memo labels. Text information can also be written into each memo using the AJ-HPX3000 or a PC with P2 Viewer installed. A shot mark, which allows convenient OK and NG marking, can also be added to each clip during or after recording.

SD/SDHC Memory Card Slot

The AJ-HPX3000 comes with an SD/SDHC Memory Card slot. You can create a metadata upload file (produced with P2 Viewer) containing information such as the name of the camera operator, the name of the reporter, the recording location, and text memos on an SD/SDHC Memory Card, and load it as clip metadata. The SD slot is also used to upload scene files and firmware updates.

Proxy Data Recording (Option)

Install the AJ-YAX800G proxy video encoder,, and the AJ-HPX3000 records MPEG-4 proxy (low-resolution) data onto the P2 card and an SD/SDHC Memory Card. This can be used for quick viewing of dailies with timecode and it’s low bit-rate provides easy transmission over wired and wireless networks.

*Proxy data is AV data with low-resolution MPEG-4 video and audio containing a time code, metadata, and other control information.

*Use of DCF technologies under license from Multi-Format, Inc.

HD Recording Format supported by AJ-HPX3000

Recording video Format	Pull down	Rec. Time (using 5 16GB P2 cards) and Codec
		DVCPRO HD	AVC-Intra 100	AVC-Intra 50
1080/59.94i	—		80min.	160min.
1080/29.97p (over 59.94i)	—	80min.	—	—
1080/23.98p (over 59.94i)	2-3		—	—
1080/23.98pA (over 59.94i)	2-3-3-2		—	—
1080/29.97p (native)*	—	—	80min.	160min.
1080/23.98p (native)*	—	—	100min.	200min.
1080/50i	—	80min.	80min.	160min.
1080/25p (over 50i)	—		—	—
1080/25p (native)*	—	—	80min.	160min.

*Native modes record only the effective frames.

SD Recording Format supported by AJ-HPX3000

Recording video Format	Rec. Time (using 5 16GB P2 cards) and Codec
	Pull down
	DVCPRO 50
480/59.94i	—
480/29.97p (over 59.94i)	—
480/23.98p (over 59.94i)	160min.
	2-3
480/23.98pA (over 59.94i)	2-3-3-2
576/50i	—
576/25p (over 50i)	160min.
	—

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