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Choosing the Pan HVX200? Dynamics? Color rendition?
Hi.
I produce footage for DV-pal distribution. Mostly commercials with lots of AE color-correction. Usually just 30 – 60 sec. a piece.
Always work in progressive, and always try to achieve the film-look. I have absolutely no use for interlaced footage.
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for the first part of question number one… i think that the your down converted hd footage will look better than your sd footage, particularly if you have been shooting in dv25. you’ll have a lot more color information, and you scaled down footage will have a less harsh look that is a little more film-like.
for the second part of the question, there is a lot more to looking like film than just the frame rate, so you will still use a similar process for your progressive hd footage.
as far as 25p…? i think so, but i’m not sure. panasonic should cover that on their site. there is also a panasonic p2 cam forum here that could probably help you.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Downcoversions should look fine, although using the P2 cards with HD takes some getting used to, primarily in that you have to switch cards out fairly often and dump to drive.
If you really want a good clean (and filmic) look, shooting with the HVX200 will help simply because it’s 4:2:2 rather than DV’s 4:1:1, but also the native 16:9 aspect ratio.
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There is a sample P2 card image on the Raylight webpage, look down near the bottom of https://dvfilm.com/raylight
Yes, the Euro version of the HVX200 shoots 1080/25P, 720/25P, and PAL DV and DVCPRO50. Raylight will work with all of those.
It will look more like film if you downconvert the edited 720/25P to 25P PAL using the film grain, red boost and deflicker features in DVFilm Maker (included with Raylight). The demo for that is at https://dvfilm.com/maker
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