Canon XL-H1 capture and monitor playback not working

[Shane Ross]

[gaffney film] “what shutter speed was it shot with?”

24F, ranging from 60 to 180. Actually started out at 500, but then I saw what it was doing. Great for SAVING PRIVATE RYAN type of stuff, but too much for normal use.

[gaffney film] “And how was it captured?”

Via the Kona LH at 1080i 29.97. Could not get FCP to recognize the camera so no native HDV capture possible.

[gaffney film] “i was told by a canon tech rep that 24f also provides 20% more information per second. same bit rate distributed over fewer GOPs. I don’t really get it, but I’ll buy it becasue it makes sense.”

Id rather plunk my $9000 on an HVX and two 8GB P2 cards, and shoot real DVCPRO HD at 4:2:2, and bypass all the HDV stuff. But this still is a very viable camera and man does it give nice images. I was VERY impressed.

But…I do want to note that I saw NO artifacting, NO weird blurring during fast movement (Moving objects like speeding cars, my girls on skates) and fast whips and pans. THAT really impressed me.

Shane

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[Vince Gaffney]

I love mine. i teetered between the two cameras and went with the canon for the HD SDI port and interchangeable lenses. I had it on a production last week and we had every output running except composite – to client monitors, to video assit for the operator,to video playback, to audio with TC and the F/W to a little HV10 velcroed to the battery mount for back up. that H1 took a four day beating and never flinched.

i captured all the HDV stuff into FC via Kona LHe as 10bit uncompressed SD. I’m cutting it against d-beta color corrected 16mm layoffs and dv50 existing footage and it looks beautiful. It held up flawlessly.

vince

[Andrew Kimery]

“But…I do want to note that I saw NO artifacting, NO weird blurring during fast movement (Moving objects like speeding cars, my girls on skates) and fast whips and pans. THAT really impressed me.”

Wow, that is impressive to hear since one of the main complaints of HDV is it’s handling of fast moving images.

-A

[Don Greening]

[adkimery] “Wow, that is impressive to hear since one of the main complaints of HDV is it’s handling of fast moving images.”

I too, was under this same impression because of what other professionals have been saying about their HDV shooting experiences. Perhaps the Canon fairs better because of the 9 frame GOP instead of Sony’s 15 (so I’ve been told).

– Don

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