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Test footage of HPX-3000 available on our FTP site
I’ve been following posts for the past few months about the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 P2 HD camera. We had the good fortune this past week of having our Panasonic regional reps bring the camera to us for evaluation purposes. I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to test the camera under different shooting conditions, but we did get to shoot in our studio and edit some test footage. I’d like to share this footage with everybody, so it’s available for download on our FTP site:
To log in to our FTP site, the user name is hpx3000, password is hpx3000.
I also was able to test the new Sony PMW-EX1 XDCAM EX camera the day after the Panasonic reps were here in Memphis. We shot similar footage to what we captured from the HPX3000, for comparison purposes.
With both cameras, which are native 1920×1080 HD, we shot some footage at 1080 24p, and some at 1080 60i. The Panasonic camera only shoots at 1080, while the Sony will also shoot at 720, in addition to 1080. We didn’t have time to shoot anything at 720, though, on the EX-1.
If you log in to our FTP site using the instructions above, you’ll see a single folder called hpx3000. Inside it, there are two subfolders: hpx3000clips, and ex1clips.
We used FCP 6.0.2 to edit all the test footage, and Compressor’s H.264 settings to make the MOV files. We kept them at the cameras’ full 1920×1080 resolution, so they are somewhat large, ranging from 3.4 MB (for one of the brief close-up shots) to 304 MB (for one of several narratives I did on-camera).
I had a lav mic on my narratives for the HPX3000, but we used the on-board camera mic on the EX-1, due to time constraints.
If you download some of the clips for evaluation, please post your feedback, as I would greatly appreciate opinions on these two cameras. You’re also welcome to send me an e-mail with your thoughts, to jo****@****************ce.com.
Thanks for all the great information that has been shared here, and happy holidays!
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Thank You for taking the time and resources to make this footage available.
My opinion is that the long shot intros wold be the most useful clips for judging overall image quality, but they appear to be compressed (macro blocks). Is it possible to get them uncompressed?
I enjoyed comparing the footage from both cameras. EX1 is very impressive but noisy at 60i. It raises the question for a newbie like me, what is better the interlaced CCD (like my canon with your choice of interlace artifacts or compromised resolution in progressive mode) or the progressive CMOS which appears to have some issues with video noise?
Should the HPX3000 footage have interlacing artifacts like that when shot 24p with pulldown?
Thanks again for taking the time and giving us the opportunity to see footage from both of these amazingly cool cameras.
Shiloh
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Tried going on the FTP with the password, says its not up anymore, was this taken down? or moved?
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