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  • Shooting to multiple formats at once with HVX 200

    Posted by Mark Suszko on February 1, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    I have one of those crazy situations where everybody needs a different format, all out of one camera, at the same time. I wonder if I can get the HVX200 to shoot simultaneously: DV25 standard def to the internal miniDV tape, and HD to P2 cards and/or a Firestore hard drive.

    Bonus question: must they both be in the same aspect ratio, or can the SD DV25 tape be in 4:3 while the P2 and hard drive are recording in 16 by 9? My *guess* on the last question is “no”; that the HD is only 16:9 and forces everything else to be 16:9 so I’ll have to pick 16 X 9 for everything and protect the center-punch area for the 3 by 4 shot if I need that in the SD tape, then re-frame the SD tape in an offline edit.

    Yes?

    No?

    Maybe? Any better idea? That doesn’t involve 2 cameras?:-)

    Thanks for an answer, whatever you can suggest.

    Barry Green replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Mark Suszko

    February 1, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    What I’m gleaning from the PDF of the manual is, I can shoot in HD to the P2 cards, then auto-dub to the internal tape drive where I get a down-converted 16:9 SD Dv25 signal. Is that letterboxed on the Mini Dv tape then? Or anaglyph?

    “Oh, you wanted to RECORD that?”

  • Emre Tufekci s.o.a.

    February 1, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    You CANNOT record simultaniously to the P2 and the DV Deck.

    You CAN record to the FS-100 and P2 at the same time but they have to be the same format.

    The only thing you CAN do different is that you can record720P 59.97 to P2 and 720P 23.976 to FS-100 at the same time.

    I have tried to downconvert in the camera once where I recorded 720p 60fps to tape and it was letterboxed 4:3 format. (I think, it was a long time ago)

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  • Mark Suszko

    February 1, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    If the SD tape is a letterbox in a 4:3 that’s kind of bad for me and my needs, because it artificially shrinks the picture that much more. In my case for this project its all going to be talking heads in closeup. I dunno if I’d prefer the SD tape result to be the letterbox or an anmorphic wide, edge to edge; while that’s more work, I could at least “center-punch” that in an edit/transfer to obtain a full-screen 4:3 SD without appreciable loss. Maybe the new Sony is a better “magic bullet” for the particular problem I have?

    Thanks for the input, please keep the ideas coming.

    “Oh, you wanted to RECORD that?”

  • Barry Green

    February 2, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    [Mark Suszko] “If the SD tape is a letterbox in a 4:3 that’s kind of bad for me and my needs, because it artificially shrinks the picture that much more.”

    The downconvert is done as anamorphic 16:9, not letterboxed 4:3.

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