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HPX500 vs Digibeta
Could someone tell me what they think of the HPX500 as far as its color goes? We shoot a lot of our stuff on a old DigiBeta and I love the color it produces but we are really wanting to go HD later this year, the soon to be realeased 3000 is out of our budget.
Gary.
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Our 500 is markedly better than any Beta we have shot. We shoot in HD and release in SD. I’m sure any dealer you’re working with would be happy let you do a side-by-side test shoot.
John
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Thanks John, Thats what I wnated to hear. I was told that there is a difference in color from The 500’s SD to HD?
Is this a noticeable difference?Gary
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We have now shot projects in both DVCPro50 and DVCPro HD. I have not shot side-by-side in both codecs to compare them. However, we were very happy with the look of both. I might try this next time we shoot and see if there’s a difference. Since we do color correction anyway, minor differences would be irrelevant.
If your question was whether we saw a difference when downconverting from HD to SD, yes, the color is a little different. But, you’d expect that. After all, you are losing information when downconverting. IMHO, I think the end result of downconverting HD to SD is superior to shooting in SD.
John
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I’ve been very happy shooting in HD and down-converting to SD. It’s a great future friendly work-flow as well should you need to deliver SD now.
Tom Chartrand
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