Barry Green
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The main benefits of the 2000 over the 500 are for news applications; it has a digital doubler for no-light-loss magnification, and it has digital super gain for see-in-the-dark sensitivity. It can use the AVC-Intra codec card, etc. Lots of features that would make it a better news camera.
The main thing the 500 has over the 2000 is the variable frame rates, and that it’s half the cost.
They deliver basically comparable pictures. Base sensitivity is about the same (although digital super gain means the 2000 can get pictures in a lot lower light than the 500 can deliver). The 500 has about a stop more dynamic range than the 2000.
2000 has much more extensive menu controls, you can paint the image more thoroughly in-camera on the 2000 than you can on the 500. The 500’s menus are largely identical to the HVX200’s.
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Yes it’s 4:2:2. The two cameras have much in common, and each does some things that the other doesn’t. They’re both 2/3″, HD & SD, 1080 & 720, NTSC & PAL switchable, HD-SDI/TC in-out/Genlock, etc.
The 500 does variable frame rates, the 2000 doesn’t. The 500 does “pN” modes, the 2000 doesn’t yet do that, and won’t until around August or so.
The 2000 has several features that make it much more desirable for news broadcasts, such as the option to take the AVC-Intra codec card or MPEG proxy card, a digital doubler, digital super gain for see-in-the-dark low-light performance, and the ability to seamlessly play back a pre-cut set of broll shots right during a live broadcast.
The 2000 is a 1-million-pixel imager, the 500 is a 620k-pixel imager. The 2000 has five P2 slots, the 500 has four. The 2000 body costs twice what the 500 does. If you need a low-cost camera, the 500 is a raging steal. If you need a news/broadcast cam, the 2000’s unique features make it much more suitable to that environment.
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[Micah Ginn] “what is the cheapest place to find a new AG-HVx200? Cause there are several listed on the web in the 2,500 dollar range–but are they all unreliable?”
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… it’s all a pack of lies. Absolute lies. Nobody anywhere is going to sell you a $5,995 camcorder for $2500. Unless it’s stolen. About the best you can do is around $5,000.
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You can sync HVXs but they won’t be identical, just very very very close. Using a flash or clapper would be an even-more-accurate way, or shooting one camera’s LCD on the other cam (so that you have a direct comparison of any difference in timecode).
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[dgadirector] “shooting at a pN mode will automatically adjust the speed of playback. Right?”
Yes, when you choose a pN mode you’re dictating what the playback frame rate should be (either 24fps or 30fps).
[dgadirector] “The 60p was requested with the intent of ramping several shots – so the end result would be using both normal and slo-mo speeds. Should those be shot at 60pN for the actual project?”
There is no “60pN” mode, so you’d use the normal 720/60P mode for that. But the conversion from 60 to 24 is going to take some effort; you might be better off shooting at 48fps so you can drop every other frame for your normal-speed stuff, and keep every frame for a 2:1 slow-mo effect.
[dgadirector] “And is there anything I need to make the editor aware of if he’s using FCP?”
I’d have to defer to an FCP user to answer that, as I don’t use it and don’t know.
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Shoot 720/30pN at 60fps if you want to see in-camera slow-mo.
If you shoot 720/60p at 60fps, that’s the “reality” look — like American Idol, the Super Bowl, Dancing With The Stars etc. You have to choose one of the pN modes if you want to play back slow-mo in-camera.
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The only date mentioned was “available in May.”
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I always reformat the cards.
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I don’t use FCP so I can’t guide you on that, sorry.
To get access to your MXF clips you’d just use the File->Import->Panasonic P2 command on the original MXFs.
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Burn as data, and include the entire contents folder and the lastclip.txt file. You can delete bad takes through the P2 Viewer or through the camera; you could also do it manually but it’s more work that way. Obviously if you don’t want those takes, you should delete them before dragging the folder to Toast.
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