Adam Smith
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[Nate Stephens] “And get back to us wether you have a greenish cast to your blue skys..
I just ordered my HPX500…. It would be interesting to know if I should really worry about this issue..”
It’s mostly visible in neutral-colored areas, grey sidewalks and the like… shoot something with the preset, then white balance and shoot it again. It’s not horribly off, and certainly fixable in a number of ways, but having the preset work correctly would certainly be better.
I’ll be sending my camera off to be tweaked once I have the time, but I have a few shoots lined up first (that will turn out just fine).
-Adam
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I too would like to know if/when this 5600 Preset fix will be announced, and whether it will require sending my camera in or some sort of firmware update.
Just because there is a work-around does not make it a non-issue. Work-arounds consume time and/or resources to correct something that should work right to begin with.
-Adam
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[Noah Kadner] “ps- if you’re sending a hard drive make sure they can take Mac OS Extended. :)”
Why is that? I generally offload straight from camera (HPX500) to an external firewire drive, and the camera formats each partition as FAT32.
Or were you thinking Uncompressed QT?
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[Sam Waldorf] “so is this a different setting than say, 720p at 24p?
is there a special PN mode separate from the usual mode selection?”
When you select a progressive frame recording format you also choose from P, PA or PN.
Using your 24p example…
P (Progressive) movies are recorded with duplicate frames so they have the look of 24 but actually contain the full 60 frames required to meet 720p spec.
PA (Progressive-Advanced) movies are similar to the above, but the duplicate frames are flagged for automated removal on ingest. The resulting movie is 24fps.
PN (Progressive-Native) movies are recorded at 24 frames, period. Not compatible with firewire out to a disk recorder, but saves a ton of space when recording and does not require pulldown removal.
So if you want the look of 24p but do not require true 24fps footage, then you likely want to shoot ‘P’.
If you plan to print to film, create a 24p DVD, or go straight to the web, then you’d probably go with advanced pulldown removal (PA), or only record the 24 fps you need to start with (PN). You could also add pulldown later to pad this footage up to the standard 60 (59.94).
-Adam
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It’s not labeled with “P2” anymore – system’s not fired up at the moment but I think it’s “Log and Transfer” or some such…
Hotkey Command-8 maybe?
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Can’t say much about the drive since we were just ordering ours (firewire version) but your link has the same item for $200 less, so thanks!
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I have the Canon KJ16e x7.7B KRSD lens (without 2x extender) and while I’m pretty happy with it, I will say that it breathes a lot.
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Dunno that this is the “best” way to do it, but Toast 8 will automatically span data over multiple DVDs for you.
Select Data DVD for “Mac & PC” and drag the items you need to burn to Toast, and the software calculate how many disks you’ll need. Feed it blanks until it’s done burning, and mail them off.
Your client will insert the first DVD and some sort of autoplay function will pop up and take them through the simple (but rather slow) process of offloading the data.
I’ve only done it twice now – from my FCP system to a PC with WinXP – and it’s worked fine both times. Not as professional as I’d like, but it could probably get you by in a pinch.
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[David Jones] “I stand corrected on the 500; there are indeed two inputs on the front; the 2000/3000 has one 5-pin.”
Ahh… gotcha.
Well then, as of now am officially entertaining offers to trade my FOUR CHANNEL HPX-500 for a mere 3 channel HPX-3000. I’m sure there are other people out there who could put that extra channel to better use! =)
-Adam
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[David Jones] “There are indeed, four channels of audio, but their are only two inputs you can use at once; i”
Hopefully you have time to elaborate, because I’m confused…
I have the HPX-500 and it has 4 discrete inputs. Two Front inputs which can routed to any of the 4 channels, and two Rear inputs which route to channels 3 or 4 (your choice).
We have recorded 4 independent sources – fishpole shotgun, stand shotgun and a dual-channel wireless – and I’m still not really sure what you mean. No ‘built-on’ mic on this camera.
In addition, we have a JVC DY-90 D9 camera which has 4 channels of audio, and although we only have a 2-channel deck this camera does have three discrete inputs and a fourth channel married to the built-on mic.
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