[Barry Green]

You cannot transfer from the tape to the card in-camera. You could, as Noah said, capture the footage from tape and then play it back out of your computer and record the incoming data stream on the card, if you needed it on the card for some reason.

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[Barry Green]

Also, never put a card in your Mac if it’s not write-protected. I don’t know whether you had it write-protected or not, but make sure that it’s protected before putting it in the computer, that way any kernel freak-out won’t affect your source footage.

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[Barry Green]

Panasonic’s adapter is the only option for the DVX. Century never made one for the DVX.

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[Barry Green]

Current options for an MBP would be:
1) use the camera itself as a card reader
2) use a P2 Store; the slot on the P2 Store is a pass-thru slot for the MBP (or other computer)
3) Use the PCD-20 five-slot reader

Soon the duel-systems adapter should be out (but we’ve been saying “soon” for quite a while…)

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[Barry Green]

Yes that would work fine, as long as you’re copying the card to the drive through a laptop. The only reason FAT32 is involved is because it’s interchangeable between MAC and PC, and the camera itself copies to drives it has formatted as FAT32. Through a laptop you can go to NTFS or whatever, but direct from the camera it would be FAT32.

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[Barry Green]

There’s already been one firmware upgrade released for the HVX. It’s a painless procedure; just download it, copy it to the SD card in the appropriate directory, and your HVX will recognize it and add a new “update” command to your P2 menu.

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[Barry Green]

I’ll copy and paste from the other site. Just be aware, this is UNSUPPORTED and if you damage your camera or you fail to record footage or anything like that, you cannot hold Panasonic responsible. With that said, I’ve done a ton of 2fps recording and never had a problem. I have, however, seen “P2 Micon” errors when trying to use one or two of the frame rates. But it has never destroyed footage or caused any complications. Your mileage may vary.

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Here’s the procedure:

1) Get a scene file text file on an SD card, usually by going into menu 8, CARD FUNCTIONS, and saving scene files to your SD card.

2) Open the scene file text file in the PRIVATE\MEIGROUP\PAVCN\SBG\P2SD directory, called SCENE1.TXT (or scene2.txt, scene3.txt, or scene4.txt) using a text editor like Windows Notepad

3) Look for the next-to-last item in the scene file. Here’s what a sample scene file text file looks like:
00005000: 8 ; DETAIL LEVEL: 0
00005001: 8 ; V DETAIL LEVEL: 0
00005002: 8 ; DETAIL CORING : 0
00005003: 8 ; CHROMA LEVEL: 0
00005004: 8 ; CHROMA PHASE: 0
00005005: 8 ; COLOR TEMP: 0
00005006: 16 ; MASTER PED: 0
00005007: 8 ; A.IRIS LEVEL: 0
00005008: 1 ; NEWS GAMMA: OFF
00005009: 0 ; GAMMA : HD NORM
0000500A: 0 ; KNEE: AUTO
0000500B: 0 ; MATRIX: NORM
0000500C: 1 ; SKIN TONE DTL : OFF
0000500D: 0 ; V DETAIL FREQ : THIN
0000500E: 0 ; OPERATION TYPE: VIDEO CAM
0000500F: 0 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT
00005010: BE026801 ; SYNCRO SCAN :

That next-to-last item is:
0000500F: 0 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT

You can ignore everything after the semicolon; the semicolon indicates that it’s a “comment” and will have no bearing on anything else (so, in this example, the part that says “; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT ” is useless, it affects nothing, it’s just there for human-readable description).

So the relevant part is:
0000500F: 0

The only thing you would want to change is that last number (in this case, “0”). To get different frame rates, use one of the following numbers:

0 = DEFAULT
1 = 2fps
2 = 3fps
3 = 4fps
4 = 6fps
5 = 8fps
6 = 10fps
7 = 12fps
8 = 14fps
9 = 16fps
10 = 18fps
11 = 20fps
12 = 22fps
13 = 23fps
14 = 24fps
16 = 26fps
17 = 27fps
18 = 28fps
19 = 30fps
20 = 32fps
21 = 34fps
22 = 36fps
23 = 38fps
24 = 40fps
25 = 42fps
26 = 44fps
27 = 46fps
28 = 48fps
29 = 50fps
30 = 52fps
32 = 54fps
33 = 56fps
34 = 58fps
35 = 60fps
36+ = repeat of sequence from 50fps to 60fps

So, for example, if you wanted to get a frame rate of 2 FPS, your modified line would look like this:
0000500F: 1 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT

And if you wanted 44 fps, it would look like this:
0000500F: 26 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT

(don’t try higher than 35; I tried 36 and it set it to 50fps, 37 set it to 52, so I think it just repeats 50-60 for all fields set higher than 36)

4) Save your modified text file back onto your SD card

5) Put the SD card back in the camera, go to CARD FUNCTIONS, and read the scene files into the camera.

Now, when you go to the appropriate scene file, you’ll see the new frame rate there. But be aware, the only way to assign these “nonstandard” frame rates is through the SD card. If you use the menu to try to change the frame rate, you’ll lose it — it’ll immediately jump to 60, and then only allow the normal rates to be selected. You’d have to re-load the scene file from the SD card in order to re-establish your “nonstandard” frame rate.

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[Barry Green]

Make sure you’ve updated to the latest firmware? Go to firestore.com to check for updates.

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[Barry Green]

You can’t do it. Dubbing/downconverting only works from a P2 source, not from the FS-100.

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[Barry Green]

The FireStore won’t record variable frame rate footage in the “native” simulation mode, at least as per version 3.0 of the software. If you change your frame rate, it’ll revert to the regular 60fps recording system. You can still access the variable frame rates but you’ll have to use a post tool like Apple’s Frame Rate Converter.

As for the smearing, yes the 350d shutter is the key, but it also helps to set it to a lower frame rate. The HVX menus allow you to go down to 12fps, but the camera itself can go as slow as 2fps. 2fps + 350.0d shutter = magnificent streaking effects. Google for HVX “frame rate hack” to find out how to get 2fps (and all the other frame rates that are possible in an HVX, there are about 36 in total.)

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