Adam Smith
Forum Replies Created
-
Yup… if you shoot anything 720p it’s going to be over a 60p stream, with pulldown if appropriate.
If you shot 720pN then you’ll only have the number of frames you selected (thus the space savings).
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
Hmm. Does your lens have an interface (on the handgrip, not in the camera) where you might possibly need to enable the feature?
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
That would be dope. I have 3 user buttons on my HPX-500 and rarely use any of them – nothing really important or exciting to program.
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
Are you sure your lens has that capability? As far as I know it’s a higher-end feature.
The $8k lens on my HPX-500 doesn’t compensate for breathing (and I wish it did) but then it’s not a high end lens either.
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
In Firewire Host mode you can offload directly from camera to a firewire disk… however, the first step will to allow the camera to erase and prepare the drive (any info on the drive will be lost).
The camera will set the drive up as unallocated space and each card offloaded will result in a new partition being created, partition size matching the capacity of the card. Note that FAT32 seems to have a limit to the number of partitions per disk… seems to me 16 was around the limit. Since I use 16gb cards and offload to a 300gb drive, I will never fill the drive to capacity. Worth considering when you are selecting a drive.
My 500 generally takes 22 or so minutes to offload and verify a 16gb card.
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
The 720p standard is 60 progressive frames, so you should see around double the run time when shooting 30pN and more than double with 24pN.
Right now on my HPX500 I have:
43 mins available at 720/24p or 720/30p or 720/60p
84 mins at 720/30pN
104 mins at 720/24pN-Adam
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
Hey Robert, thanks for the input, and yeah that workflow is great when I can create something stand-alone and drop it in. I love being able to save a Motion project and then just drop it into FCP and go.
Problem is, I’m more accustomed to editing along, getting pacing and shots down, selecting source material, and then working on compositing or graphics once I have a good idea of what’s going on around it.
I’d really rather not have to export all the tracks that will be referenced and rebuild that section of my sequence in Motion before I can get down to the fun stuff. And if I decide to change a source clip or timing of the utilized clips, it starts to get ugly.
I was hoping there’s something I’ve missed when using ‘Send To Motion’ that would allow me to keep my sequence intact.
Thanks!
-Adam
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
It sounds like he didn’t zero out the timecode at the beginning of the shoot – nothing wrong with the HVX that’s just how it’s been recorded. Otherwise you should be fine.
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
Wow… Hannah Digital, I know that guy!
He mentioned a couple weeks ago that he might ask me for help testing some new LCD monitors, but I had no idea he’d gone this far already.
I’ll certainly fill you guys in when I know more.
-Adam
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor -
That would be very cool indeed… I just cant seem to talk the wife into it tho.
– – –
Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor