HVX-200 Demo DVD – video looks funky in spots

[Amadon Amadon]

EXCELLENT! I appreciate all those very’s. SO glad to hear the thing works — and apparently, works very well. I was once given the impression that the camera would be in my hands this month. The engineering mule on Nov. 8 sounds like we’ll be waiting a good while more.

The more I think about, except for the dollars presently required, I’ve gotten quite positive about using a compressed workflow process with the P2 card. In short: Accept the (rather severe) discipline imposed by taking the time to nuke unwanted footage DAILY, and NEVER archive it. Won’t work for everyone, because it’s a big change in the work process. But it DOES have these real advantages:

1. When you make those major cut decisions the day of the shoot, you’re learning stuff at the right time from that process. It keeps you in better touch with how you’re doing.

2. Saves on archive space. I plan to archive to hard drive. Not cheap. In that context, this pre-cut approach makes particularly good sense.

Thanks for the post. Amadon

[Amadon Amadon]

Thanks for the input. I come from still photography, where cameras are reviewed long before mass release. Different world. If I made a video camera I knew would impress, that’s what I’d do. But they must have their reasons. amadon

[Anthony Miles]

Jan, Cow members,

Thanks for your posts. I can’t think of anything to much worse than, this type of pre-release problem. I loved my DVX-100a more than any other camera I have ever owned including my DY-90 D9 rig. The film like images created a perceived better image to my client than the beautiful D-9 footage with a great lens that cost more than the DVX-100a and all the accessories and bag it was living in.

I ask because I eagerly await Panasonic’s next ground breaking product, I skipped the Varicam and learned the competing high end camera, but cant wait for the HVX-200, for myself and my own productions, if it lives up to the legacy of the DVX-100a, (but much better of course).

Thanks,
Anthony