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Shooting advice
Heya,
Reading up all about this HVX 200 camera and it sounds awesome. The rez, the adjustable frame rate, the cine-gamma thingy that the DVX had, 16:9 and 4 channels of unmixed audio? Is that really the go??? Surely there’s a catch??????
Really want to buy one when they get the storage solution a little cheaper and it works with a Mac.
I am interested though (Jan?!!!) in what setting I would have the HVX on to shoot a car driving down a mountain at high speed.
reason being: I want to shoot the car with the driver, driving at safe speeds but was hoping there was a frame rate I could shoot at on this new camera that when I played it back at 24 fps that would make it seem like it was all going a lot faster (without looking ‘sped up’).
Would this camera help with that? Or should I just fang it down the mountain and hope Death has another appointment ?
El Stupido
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Please allow me to spill my cents here. I don
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Nice.
Thanks.
The High Shutter speed was not something I had thought of nor the dust.
Nicko
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[El_Stupido] “Surely there’s a catch??????”
The “catch” is that every dealer I talked to has a backorder list about a hundred deep, so they’ll be in scarce supply for a while. But yes, it basically is everything the DVX is, but adding high-def and tapeless acquisition.
[El_Stupido] “Really want to buy one when they get the storage solution a little cheaper and it works with a Mac.”
The storage just got cut in price to 1/3 of what it was, and it works with the Mac today. In fact, a 2-year-old 1.3ghz Powerbook works just fine with it right now. There’s a driver that you have to install to have it recognize the P2 cards, but other than that FCP5 supports it fully right now.[El_Stupido] “I want to shoot the car with the driver, driving at safe speeds but was hoping there was a frame rate I could shoot at on this new camera that when I played it back at 24 fps that would make it seem like it was all going a lot faster (without looking ‘sped up’).”
You can do exactly that. It has a few frame rates that might be appropriate; 22fps would look just a little faster than real life, 18fps would be really quite fast, and then there’s also 12fps, which would be twice as fast as realtime, and that would start looking fake.
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