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  Barry Green Hack – 2 frames per sec??

  Posted by Eric Holzapfel on July 24, 2008 at 6:08 pm

  Hello HVX Users,

  I was checking the Cinevate website (re: the Brevis).
  I found this link to an interesting video:

  https://www.cinevate.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2388#p16392

  The videographer/photographer who posted this outstanding footage, mentioned that he use the “hack” mentioned in the subject line above.

  How might I set my HVX200 for this? The quote from the cinvate forum page follows:
  1. Time lapse that was shot by the HVX200 using a 2 frame/sec hack taught by Barry Green, author of the HVX Book and host of the HVX BootCamp DVD set that you can buy from here: https://dvxuser.com/articles/hvxdvd/

  I do not have my HVX manual in front of me, would I be correct in stating that I would set the interval function for 1 sec, and set the frame rate to 2 to use this in my shooting?

  Thanks,

  Eric

  David Coleman replied 17 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Accountneedsrealnameupdate

  July 24, 2008 at 7:03 pm

  Here’s a copy of Barry’s post to DVXUSER.
  See the whole thread Here:
  https://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=53032

  Here’s the procedure:

  1) Get a scene file text file on an SD card, usually by going into menu 8, CARD FUNCTIONS, and saving scene files to your SD card.

  2) Open the scene file text file in the PRIVATE\MEIGROUP\PAVCN\SBG\P2SD directory, called SCENE1.TXT (or scene2.txt, scene3.txt, or scene4.txt) using a text editor like Windows Notepad

  3) Look for the next-to-last item in the scene file. Here’s what a sample scene file text file looks like:
  00005000: 8 ; DETAIL LEVEL: 0
  00005001: 8 ; V DETAIL LEVEL: 0
  00005002: 8 ; DETAIL CORING : 0
  00005003: 8 ; CHROMA LEVEL: 0
  00005004: 8 ; CHROMA PHASE: 0
  00005005: 8 ; COLOR TEMP: 0
  00005006: 16 ; MASTER PED: 0
  00005007: 8 ; A.IRIS LEVEL: 0
  00005008: 1 ; NEWS GAMMA: OFF
  00005009: 0 ; GAMMA : HD NORM
  0000500A: 0 ; KNEE: AUTO
  0000500B: 0 ; MATRIX: NORM
  0000500C: 1 ; SKIN TONE DTL : OFF
  0000500D: 0 ; V DETAIL FREQ : THIN
  0000500E: 0 ; OPERATION TYPE: VIDEO CAM
  0000500F: 0 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT
  00005010: BE026801 ; SYNCRO SCAN :

  That next-to-last item is:
  0000500F: 0 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT

  You can ignore everything after the semicolon; the semicolon indicates that it’s a “comment” and will have no bearing on anything else (so, in this example, the part that says “; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT ” is useless, it affects nothing, it’s just there for human-readable description).

  So the relevant part is:
  0000500F: 0

  The only thing you would want to change is that last number (in this case, “0”). To get different frame rates, use one of the following numbers:

  0 = DEFAULT
  1 = 2fps
  2 = 3fps
  3 =4fps
  4 = 6fps
  5 = 8fps
  6 = 10fps
  7 = 12fps
  8 = 14fps
  9 = 16fps
  10 = 18fps
  11 = 20fps
  12 = 22fps
  13 = 23fps
  14 = 24fps
  16 = 26fps
  17 = 27fps
  18 = 28fps
  19 = 30fps
  20 = 32fps
  21 = 34fps
  22 = 36fps
  23 = 38fps
  24 = 40fps
  25 = 42fps
  26 = 44fps
  27 = 46fps
  28 = 48fps
  29 = 50fps
  30 = 52fps
  32 = 54fps
  33 = 56fps
  34 = 58fps
  35 = 60fps
  36+ = repeat of sequence from 50fps to 60fps

  So, for example, if you wanted to get a frame rate of 2 FPS, your modified line would look like this:
  0000500F: 1 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT

  And if you wanted 44 fps, it would look like this:
  0000500F: 26 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT

  (don’t try higher than 35; I tried 36 and it set it to 50fps, 37 set it to 52, so I think it just repeats 50-60 for all fields set higher than 36)

  4) Save your modified text file back onto your SD card

  5) Put the SD card back in the camera, go to CARD FUNCTIONS, and read the scene files into the camera.

  Now, when you go to the appropriate scene file, you’ll see the new frame rate there. But be aware, the only way to assign these “nonstandard” frame rates is through the SD card. If you use the menu to try to change the frame rate, you’ll lose it — it’ll immediately jump to 60, and then only allow the normal rates to be selected. You’d have to re-load the scene file from the SD card in order to re-establish your “nonstandard” frame rate.
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  Eric Holzapfel

  July 24, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  Hello Kirk,

  Whoa! and I thought it was a simple button push!
  Amazing. I will have to give this a shot. Thanks for the detailed info on how to do this. I have barry’s dvds, etc and have not yet watched all of them. so this will help!

  Eric
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  David Coleman

  July 28, 2008 at 3:45 pm

  Anybody know if there is a similar hack for the 2000 or the 500?

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