Barry Green
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I just searched for authorized Panasonic service centers in Los Angeles. There are seven listed; none have a name anything like “Audio Service Center”. I’d recommend you contact one of the DVX100-authorized service centers about your situation.
THE VIDEO CLINIC INC 2307 WILSHIRE BLVD. SANTA MONICA CA 90403 (310) 828-6464
PANASONIC – PBTSC SERVICE 3330 CAHUENGA BLVD WEST LOS ANGELES CA 90068 (323) 436-3507
VTR SERVICE 2700 WEST BURBANK BLVD BURBANK CA 91505 (818) 841-9200
DIGITRON ELECTRONICS 7801 E. TELEGRAPH ROAD MONTEBELLO CA 90640 (323) 887-0777
VIDEO SYSTEMS SERVICE CTR 23322 PERALTA UNIT #4 LAGUNA HILLS CA 92653 (949) 855-1082
GRC ELECTRONICS 1181 PIONEER WAY EL CAJON CA 92020 (619) 464-6446
MEDIA ASSOCIATES, INC. 616 NATIONAL AVENUE MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043 (650) 968-2444That’s every authorized DVX100 service center within 307 miles of Los Angeles CA.
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There’s something wrong there. I’ve never heard of this problem on DVXUser.com, where there are thousands and thousands of camera owners. If this was a recurring fault you’d think we would have heard about it by now. I’ve had my DVX for two and a half years, others have had theirs for longer, and there’s never been a hint of an issue with the headphone jack. I can’t accept that this is some ongoing fault that’s never been fixed, that makes no sense.
And no authorized repair facility would charge YOU – the CUSTOMER – to download a repair procedure? No possible way. I’d hazard a guess that the facility you’re dealing with doesn’t know what they’re doing. That explanation makes a lot more sense than the idea that Panasonic “engineered a fault, didn’t fix it, everyone’s camera has it, and everyone’s will fail” — I think it’s a lot more likely that the service center you’re dealing with isn’t a factory-authorized DVX service center, and therefore they really don’t know what they’re doing with the camera.
If this was a common fault, wouldn’t they have downloaded the repair procedure by now? After all, the camera’s been on the market for two and a half years; if they were an authorized DVX service center, surely they’d have run into this by now, right?
Doesn’t add up.
I’d say your service center is at fault.
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None of these type of products draw their power from a prosumer camera’s battery, so it’s hard to say whether that idea’s even relevant. The Firestore, Quickstream, and QuickCapture all have their own battery systems; none of them pull power from the camera.
The Firestore looks like it draws 7.5 watts, which is about the same power draw as a DVX or FX1, so *if* they made it such that it drew power from the camera, then yeah, you could expect your battery life to be cut in half. But, we don’t know what the HVX’s power draw is going to be either — the JVC HD100, for example, draws about twice as much power as an FX1 or DVX does, so we don’t know yet.
The Panasonic uses lithium-ion batteries in the same basic sizes as the Sony. The biggest one currently is 5600 milli-amps, which has capacity that’s about halfway between Sony’s NP-F770 and NP-F970. On a DVX, the 5600 battery drives the camera for over five hours. Sony has the ability to read out in #-of-minutes-remaining of battery life; in the DVX you get a sort of bar graph that shows full-3/4-half-1/4. Don’t know if the HVX will improve on that or not.
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Yes firewire editing works on the PC — Avid Express Pro HD works with it today. Whether Adobe or other vendors will update their software remains to be seen, but Avid has it working already.
But keep in mind, “capturing” via firewire is much less important with an HVX. For almost all uses, you won’t be “capturing” anything at all. You’ll be either copying files off the P2 card via inserting it into a PCMCIA slot, or you’ll be copying files off the cards through the Firewire connection to the camera. It won’t be using AVC control, it’ll be using SBP2 protocol. That means you plug the camera into the computer, and it mounts on the desktop as an external hard disk. You use Windows Explorer to copy the files onto your hard disk. You don’t “capture” live video, you just do a file copy.
Of course, if your computer supports DVCPRO-HD firewire capture, such as through Avid or the forthcoming DV(cpro-HD) Rack or some other solution, then you can “capture” as we’ve always done with DV, but keep in mind that that’s not going to be the normal way you work with the equipment.
Regarding files on the P2 card — they’re in MXF format. If your editor reads/understands MXF files, then you’re good to go already. If not, then you can use the file conversion software from Focus that reads MXF and converts it to .AVI. However, you’ll still need a DVCPRO-HD codec. Pinnacle, Avid, Apple, and Canopus all have DVCPRO-HD codecs available. Adobe and Sony don’t, although you can use the Avid codec within Premiere and Vegas to get a sort of functional system right now. Expect much better integrated solutions by the time the camera actually ships, which is still probably 4-5 months away.
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720/24p is confirmed as being 40mbps on the card.
No, the CitiDisk wouldn’t work with it, as it doesn’t understand the data stream. But it might be a simple firmware fix to get it to work.
Yes, as beak said, it should probably work with the SPX800.
The bigger question is, will the CitiDisk work AT ALL? There were lots and lots of very unflattering reports about their earlier CitiDisk DV and its companion product the QuickStream DV. I would be very, very skeptical about any Shining Technology product until someone ELSE tests it in the field for a few months and gives it some glowing reports. Maybe they’ve ironed out the bugs and they now have a functional product, but… well, I’d rather someone else test it on their footage first…
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Right. Basically there is no such thing as an uncompressed HD camera or deck.
There are pretty much three levels of quality on the HD scale. At the bottom there’s HDV, a highly compressed format most suitable for consumer cameras. In the middle is HDCAM and DVCPRO-HD, two formats that basically form the basis of every HD camera out there. At the very top is HDCAM SR, a system that uses MPEG-4 compression and 4:4:4 color sampling.
Now, all these cameras can output an uncompressed signal — the HVX,Z1,FX1 and HD100 all output uncompressed via analog component connectors, and the bigger cameras output an uncompressed digital signal through HD-SDI. But capturing and recording uncompressed is a very difficult thing to do, requiring a RAID of fast hard disks that can support about 166 megabytes per second of data transfer; a gigabyte goes by in about six seconds at that rate.
So uncompressed is not a practical option for almost any recording circumstance. Might be most useful in a live switching/studio situation though.
As far as “real HD”, yes the HVX is real HD, and it uses a real HD format. But it’s also a $6,000 camera, and there’s only so much you can expect out of it. It’ll probably be by far the best-performing of the $6,000 HD cameras, due to its much-superior recording format, but it still won’t be in the same class as the $40,000 to $100,000 “big” HD cameras.
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They have not announced either.
I think everyone’s assuming an FS-4-style product. I pretty much hope it isn’t. I’d rather see a user-interchangeable hard disk on it, so capacity is whatever you want it to be. I’m hoping it’ll be a reasonably-low-cost controller unit with a slot that accepts off-the-shelf hard disks. Then capacity would be dirt cheap and huge — 300gb would give you five hours of 1080, or almost 8 hours of 720/24p, for under $200.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the FS-4, and if it is an FS-4 style product that’d be okay too. But I think the most useful thing they could do would be to design it so that it can use 3.5″ off-the-shelf hard disks. That would be the ultimate as far as capacity and price-performance.
And that’s just FireStore — other solutions may come forth from other vendors as well.
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There is no difference between the 100A and the 100 regarding slow-mo capability. What one can do, the other can do.
(the 100, in the US, is called the 100P. The 100A, in the US, is called the 100AP).
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Derek is correct, in its current configuration the CitiDisk could not handle the 100mbps data rate of DVCPRO-HD. FireStore and DV Rack are working on having compatible products by the time the camera’s available.
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If you wanted your timecode to start at 0:00:00:00 every time you load a new tape, set the timecode mode to regen, not preset. And set it to rec run, not free run.
If you want different timecode for every tape, set it to preset, not regen. Then each time you change a tape, go into the timecode preset menu and set the preset to 01:00:00:00 or 02:00:00:00 or whatever you want to start the tape at.
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