a question in regards to the new AG-HVX200

[Noah Kadner]

Er no. It’s DVCPROHD not HDV. If you want HDV you want Sony or JVC.

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

The HVX200 will record DVCPRO HD in two flavors 720P and 1080i and DVCPRO50, DVCPRO and DV. It only does the DVCPRO formats on the P2 card.

Hope this helps,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Barry Green]

[wildmangoose] “They advertise that it will do HD/DVCPRO/DV. Does this mean that it will do HDV and DVCPRO HD as well as sd.”

It offers three leves of recording:

DV (and DVCPRO25), which are two formats that record the standard 4:1:1 or 4:2:0, standard-def, 5:1 compression signal that we’re all familiar with. DV is a recording format that’s about on par with BetaSP as a recording format.

DVCPRO50 is a much higher-quality standard-def signal. DVCPRO50 has twice the color sampling (4:2:2) and about half the compression, so DVCPRO50, as a recording format, is almost Digital Betacam in quality; DigiBeta is just about the highest-quality standard-def recording you can get, and DVCPRO50 is “right up there” with it.

Then there’s high-def. The HVX doesn’t use HDV, which is a low-color-sampling high-def recording format designed around MPEG-2 and the limitations necessary to get it to fit on a $4 tape. Instead the HVX uses DVCPRO-HD, which is a frame-discrete compression system with twice the color sampling (4:2:2), and is the same recording format used in Panasonic’s $70,000 VariCam and $43,000 HDX400 high-def cameras. As a recording format, DVCPRO-HD is far superior to HDV.

Unique to the HVX200 is that it can record both formats of high-def, both 1080 and 720. Almost every other high-def camera out there makes you choose, either 1080 or 720, but the HVX lets you do both.

Of course, those other cameras are already on the market as well, whereas the HVX won’t be on store shelves for another six months or so.

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[Stevejr]

That is cool. I would imagine then the the pictures quaility will be alot better then sony or JVC’s Camera.

[Noah Kadner]

Please have a look through the board. You’ll find this topic has already been explored quite thorougyly.

[Bill Magac]

Jan,
Can you clarify something for me. I’ve read on other postings
the HVX can do 1080p in addition to 1080i. Is that true?

Regards,
BillM

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi Bill,

Yes the AG-HVX200 will do 1080/24P but in a pull down just like the DVX does 24P. It will do it in 2 different patterns, just like the DVX, 2:3 or 2:3:3:2. Should be very cool. So when editing, it can be extracted to the timeline and then record out to like HDCAM or D5HD.

Best regards,

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jean-yves Le moine]

hi jan
can you confirm that for the eurppean version the codec will be recorded in 1440X1080p25 ?

by a simple pull down too?

jean-yves le moine

temps r

[Accountclosedduetopolicyviolations]

Jan,
how many minutes can one record(maximum) on P2 memory using true HD recording and DVCPRO50 recording???
Does this camera have true manual lens control??(like JVC-100)
And one more important question:Does is(or will)it use MEGAPIXEL block??
If so,which one(CEMOS)???
Thank You-jiri vrozina

[Dan Achatz]

“Then there’s high-def. The HVX doesn’t use HDV, which is a low-color-sampling high-def recording format designed around MPEG-2 and the limitations necessary to get it to fit on a $4 tape.”

I think you mean to put 60 Minutes on a $4.00 tape. All the tape is recording is 1’s and 0’s. That would be true of both HVX and HDV format cameras. So perhaps you could only put 10 minutes of HVX on a $4.00 tape.

How much are those P2 cards again?

Dan