Adam Smith
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If all you need is Verify, you could use P2CMS (free from Panasonic) to pull footage from the cards and catalog it, as well as modify metadata, make selects and backup or duplicate with verify. P2CMS also installs DVCPRO-HD drivers so you can view MXF files directly in quicktime player, and even import them directly into FCP, assuming you don’t mind re-syncing all audio tracks.
Log and Transfer does indeed wind up duplicating your media as it re-wraps the content as quicktime movies. It is possible to make mistakes as you Transfer… things like having Remove Duplicate Frames set incorrectly can really screw up your imported footage.
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I have two Dell 2408WFP monitors for my FCP system, and while they are great price/performance for desktop monitors, I have to say that they are awful video monitors. Just for kicks I hooked up component HD out of my HPX-500 and nothing looked ‘good’ at any resolution, with a very very noisy image, lousy blacks, and iffy colors.
For the shoot, a computer monitor would likely be fine for viewing general action and cropping, and you could probably use it to confirm focus to an extent, but certainly do not trust anything like that for color/levels.
Editing would be the same, with no quality external monitor to accurately view the image I’d certainly feel like I was crossing my fingers that what I see is anything near what the end-users will see.
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Hmm.. yeah that’s a problem beyond my area of experience. =(
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[Niklas Wikman] “So the setting only affects the output on LCD/VF and not the footage being recorded? Does the HPX500 always record in 16:9?”
No, all Standard Def recording and output are affected by the Aspect Conversion setting. This also includes HD downconvert images.
Squeeze will record the image squished horizontally, to be stretched and displayed properly on a 16×9 display.
Side Crop fills a 4×3 screen by cropping off the sides of the native 16×9 image.
Letterbox does the same as Side Crop, but further crops the image at top and bottom , so the resulting image is 16×9 aspect with top and bottom black bars.
Note that anything other than Squeeze results in your image being cropped – which is a bummer when you compare how much you lose at the wide end of the lens.
There are some viewfinder-display settings you can modify, but I don’t recall if the SD-aspect indicator is one of them… there’s not a whole lot of choice as far as specific items to display.
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My Hytron 50’s have worked fine with light use for about a year, but just the other day I stuck one on and got a battery warning and then power down… at a viewfinder-displayed 80% capacity. The window on the battery itself showed nearly full, and this battery had been fully charged the previous day, used very little, and removed from the camera overnight.
I triple checked it and could not figure what the issue was. Another partially used (50% or so) battery was connected and worked just fine. Never did figure it out, but it’s awful scary to think I could get to a job and have a full battery refused by the camera.
I suppose perhaps I should look into setting things manually as well.
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You’re saying “HDV tapes” but I assume you mean DV recordings, right? Both cameras can only record/playback standard definition DV to tape, no HDV format, but DV tape stock may be being labeled as HDV these days.
Just figured I should get that detail clarified before someone more knowledgeable than I steps in to help. How are you capturing the footage and controlling the camera?
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Recording with 2 (or any number of mics) does not increase storage consumption – the DVCProHD spec records the audio tracks whether or not you’ve plugged in mics.
I don’t own a HVX-200 so I’m not even sure if you can record to 4 channels, but I would expect each mic to record only to it’s corresponding track – unless you’ve changed settings to do otherwise.
For figuring out which mic is which in post, if you don’t think you’ll be able to tell by sound, then at the beginning of the shoot I’d do audio slates for each mic.
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Update – I can indeed drag a ton of audio OR video files into a the track timeline in DVDSP – however I have to drag audio and video separately… and the audio sync creeps.
It didn’t creep when I added the audio/video pairs individually… but if I do all video and then all audio, the audio is about 1 frame longer on every clip. With 130 clips, it’s a significant offset at the end of the track.
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As soon as you said “permissions” I wondered if you’ve tried repairing disk permissions with Disk Utility.
(with the P2 cards UNMOUNTED just to be on the safe side)
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Would it be easier (from abroad) to contact Panasonic and get someone to send the Video Clinic guy the info he requires to do the repair under warranty.
Note that Jan didn’t say they are NOT authorized, just that it was possible.
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