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First Thoughts on HVX 200 (Just shot with it)
I thought I should share my thoughts and stop lurking.
We received and built our Camera Package yesterday. List of equipment is below.
HVX 200
5 x 4GB P2 Cards
Cartoni Focus Tripod
Matte Box + Follow Focus
Batteries / Cables / Cases / Etc.
2 x 250 GB Lacie Drives
15″ G4 Powerbook
Final Cut Pro 5.0.4Was up cutting the High Density Foam for the Pelican Cases late into the night. Today we had the first day of a twelve day shoot with the package. I know not enough prep time, but at least we didn’t have to rent at the last minute.
Recorded in 1080i 24PA. I had an assistant with me that would download the footage from the P2 on to the Lacie FW drives. A lot of the shooting over the couple of weeks is long interviews. We shoot for 25 minutes. We then stop the interview. Allow them to relax for a minute, take a sip of water, etc. I format 4 of the P2 cards, 5 one still has to be loaded onto the Lacie. The footage has already been checked on the hard drive by the assistant prior to formatting. Didn’t seem like a big deal. Does any of this paragraph make sense to anyone who wasn’t there.
Shooting went great. Was able to playback footage on Powerbook for client. Packed up and headed back to the office.
Offloaded the footage from the Firewire drive to our Xserve raid. Ran it through Magic Bullet for Editors, Nattress Plugins, Secondary Color Correction and the footage looks AMAZING. I couldn’t be happier.
Was viewing through a Kona 2 onto a 20″ Ikegami Monitor with HD-SDI card.
Side notes:
The footage had noise. The noise was easily removed in post. I’m going to experiment with settings to reduce noise in the camera.
The color and motion is wonderful. I’ve shot lots with the Varicam and F900 and per dollar spent I believe the HVX 200 wins out.
Tim
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11 Replies
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Which matte box and follow focus did you purchase?
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How did you remove the noise in post?
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The 440-03HVX200K2 Kit from 16×9 Inc. It’s classified as a sunshade. I couldn’t really tell the difference between the Matte Box and Sunshade other then price.
We purchased the DV Studio Rig by Chrosziel.
Tim
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Bunch of different tests were done.
In Final Cut Pro with Nattress Plugins. Add ons to Shake. Add ons to After Effects. There isn’t a lot of noise, so it wasn’t hard to remove. Just was testing to see what did a good job.
Tim
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[Tim Martin] “Ran it through Magic Bullet for Editors, Nattress Plugins”
I’ll bite.
If you shot 24pn why MBE and nattress?
David S.
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Gamma, curves, looks.
Not the Magic Bullet suite, just Looks Suite.
Tim
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[Tim Martin] “In Final Cut Pro with Nattress Plugins.”
I’d be interested in hearing more details on how you did this. The noise seems to be the only drawback to the camera so far…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5
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Thank you, thank you noise!
Too clean is too sterile in my book. How does the noise look is my question.
People are spending tons of money to filter and dirty up film these days.
I personally love shooting with my 8 video cam. Not high 8, not digital 8.
Does the noise look good? Have charachter?
“Ain’t shootin’ no soap operas.”
S.
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1st – You said “Recorded in 1080i 24PA.” How in the world do you record in progressive interlace?????
2nd – How did you capture 1080i at 24p? Even BlackMagic doesn’t have a set up to capture that.I think the only way to capture a 1080i frame is at 50 or 60 fps. If you shot 24p or pA then I think you can only capture at 720.
Anyone agree or disagree?
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Ok, I see that the hvx200 shoots 1080 24p over 60i.
What does this mean?
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