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For sticks, anything from Sachtler is great. Personally I like the feel, adjustability, and versatility of the larger fluid heads and would go with at least a DV 8, but if it’s just for the HVX-200, you could get away with a lot less. Maybe a DV 2.
For lights I’d go with an Arri kit. Something with a softbox or chimera, maybe this one:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=7822&A=details&Q=&sku=225029&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigationIf you’re doing seated interviews a wired lavaliere microphone is a good bet for sound.
Personally, unless you are going to be doing this more than a few times a year, I’d talk to your local rental house. It’s better to rent the best rather than buy mediocre, and it’s even better to walk away with cash in your hand instead of gear in your closet, but then again it all depends on how much you will actually use it in the future.
Just my thoughts.
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I believe the difference is only in the color sampling and that the luma is the same on both. Dv is 4:1:1 at 25 Mbit whereas DVCPro50 is 4:2:2 color at 50 Mbit.
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Yes, what David said. You must always run the organize P2 utility before copying or importing the files. You also MUST reformat the firestore before recording any additional material. Do not record anything after you run the organize utility until after you have copied/imported the footage and reformatted the firestore.
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Did you run the “Organize P2” function from the utilities menu on the Firestore?
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You need to push the “Stop” button on the top of the camera, not the red rec/pause button. This is normal and in the manual.
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Hi Michael,
Yes, that is correct. The files in question were read from the media tool, moved to a bin and consolidated to a media drive. The individual clips can be grouped and edited in multicam mode, but the problem is I have 30 clips each from the two cameras and the cameras were not started at the same time, so although it is easy to trim the beginning of one sequence to bring them into sync, the break points in the 2 minute chunks do not line up, (Cam A clip 3 overlaps with Cam B clips 3 and 4, if that makes sense), so going through and sequentially using multicam on two clips at a time would be a huge pita.
BTW I tried consolidating one of the sequences, but the ‘group clip’ function still gives an error message saying that “only master clips and subclips can be grouped”. Curiously, I have also tried using the ‘make subclip’ function and get the same error. Only the original master clips seem to work.
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The drag and drop technique only seems to load one sequence into the source monitor at a time and does not allow multicamera editing, (unless I’m missing something). The problem is the 2 GB FAT 32 limit in the firestore that breaks continuous takes into 2:18 long chunks. I brought everything into Avid with the media tool, but instead of one long clip, I have multiple 2 min 18 sec long clips. All of the 2:18 clips go onto the timeline and play smoothly, but the problem is I want to use the multicamera editing feature which requires that the clips are grouped together, so although I have continuous A Camera and B camera sequences, I cannot group them. I could edit just camera A clip 1 and B clip 1, and so on, but it would be much better to have the complete takes available.
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A TC200 with the car adapter should do it. https://www.spec-comm.com/turbochargertc400.php
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Not sure about adrenaline on a mac, but I can tell you how to do it in Xpress Pro on a PC, which I’m guessing should at least be similar. If the files are in the original P2 file structure you should be able to copy the contents folder to the root of a drive and access it from the media tool. From media tool, copy everything into a bin and then consolidate them to your main media drive. This will maintain the original mxf files from the camera.
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We’ve bought most of our stuff from Studio Exchange, and I’ve been very happy with their service and after sales support, (they actually will answer the phone and talk to you, what a concept!) Besides them, B&H in New York is always a safe bet. It might help if you gave the names of the places you are considering to see if any one here has dealt with them in particular.
https://www.studio-exchange.com/