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HPX3000 with FCP6 — Help on Feature?
(I realize it may be a little inappropriate to post here a request for a consultant.
Forgive me… I simply did not know where else to go, seeing that people who come here seem to know what they are talking about!)We need to hear from someone who has used HPX3000 with FCP6 for a project. We are planning to use this camera for a low to mid-budget feature, but the director is understandably concerned with the workflow (he has shot with P2, but that AVC Intra thing makes him squirmy). We only need a few hours of the advisor’s time.
We are located in Queens, New York City. There is a small stipend for showing us the process, and we will love to see any footage you have taken with the camera. If you can swing by our studio in Queen, email me: ed*************@***oo.com. Thank you all!
-shah
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I can’t go to Queens right this second, but my HVX200 and HD Survival Guide discs put together would give anyone a solid grounding in the workflow. And altogether you’re spending just $112 with the NAB discount sale we have right now lol.
https://www.callboxlive.com/store/panasonic-workflow-with-final-hvx200-p-33.html
Noah
My FCP Blog. Unlock the secrets of the DVX100, HVX200 and Apple Color. Now featuring the Sony EX1 Guidebook
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do not shoot a feature using AVC Intra… storage is cheap these days
AVC Intra is great for news, longer field work, etc. But its not a big deal to shoot DVCPRO HD
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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[Richard Harrington] “do not shoot a feature using AVC Intra… storage is cheap these days “
Wow, really? He’s talking AVC Intra, and not AVCHD. AVCIntra has advantages over DVCPro HD.
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I am ready to be convinced otherwise… but I’d rather have less compression if going to that big of a screen.
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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You should take a closer look- AVCIntra is twice the efficiency of DVCPROHD at the same data rate. It’s awesome.
Noah
My FCP Blog. Unlock the secrets of the DVX100, HVX200 and Apple Color. Now featuring the Sony EX1 Guidebook
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I don’t see how AVCIntra in more compressed than DVCPro HD? AVCHD certainly. AVCIntra is full raster and 10 bit, two big features that DVCPro HD is lacking.
AVCIntra is very sweet. The weird thing is that FCP doesn’t edit it natively.
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Noah, I see that you are also the moderator of the jobs section at Cinematography.com, where I had posted a job!
About the DVD you suggested, I looked into it. Does it cover AVC Intra? The last film I did with this director was P2 so we understand that workflow — he just wanted to know more about the AVC intra 100.
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Sorry to answer for Noah, but I am here by the computer-
It’s essentially the same workflow in terms of shooting and getting your footage off of the cards for later ingest. The only real difference is that your AVCIntra footage will get converted to ProRes or ProRes HQ (user selectable in the log and transfer prefs) if your editor is using FCP. SO the import process will take a bit longer as the footage goes through a transcode as well as a quicktime rewrap.
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ON a fast 8-core Mac 30 minutes took a couple of friends 2h30min for the conversion.
They were doing a feature in Argentina and although they loved the codec (so much better than the noisy DVCPRO HD) they hated the transcode times….
works on FCP/M100/AVID/AE/SHAKE/COMBUSTION/
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[jorge molina] “ON a fast 8-core Mac 30 minutes took a couple of friends 2h30min for the conversion. “
That seems a bit excessive. I just did 57 minutes of footage in about 50 minutes. So it should be about real time.
Jeremy
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