Barry Green
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Main difference is that the HPX500 uses a 600k-pixel 2/3″ CCD with spatial offset to increase the resolution to HD (same process as the HVX200 uses), whearas the HPX2000 uses 1280×720 chips (which may actually be the same chips as in the VariCam, I don’t know).
The “J” and “G” difference is not a small one; the AG line is the lower-priced products like the HVX and DVX, the AJ line is their top-of-the-line stuff like the VariCam. I don’t know what all those differences entail, but I would suspect that the HPX500 will be more operationally like the HVX200 (comparable menus and such), whereas the HPX2000 would be more like the SDX900.
As someone else put it in the VariCam forum, it seems like the HPX500 is slotted to compete against XDCAM-HD, whereas the HPX2000 is competing against the F900.
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Yes you can input composite video into the HVX and record onto the cards. You’ll be doing so in standard-def only, not high-def (RCA/composite video is inherently standard-def). You could choose DV, DVCPRO, or DVCPRO50. You have to be in MCR mode, not CAMERA mode. Turn off the thumbnails (press the audio dub/thumbnail button) and you should see the video image playing on the HVX’s LCD. Then just press the gray and red REC buttons on top of the cam to record that incoming video stream onto your cards.
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Yes you can record directly from a DVCPRO50 deck, or directly to the deck. If they have a deck that has a firewire port, and you have an appropriate capture application (like FCP 4.5 or later, or Serious Magic DV Rack 2.0 HD) then you’ll be able to capture that footage just like any DV footage.
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Only sort of. You do *not* set the camera to PN mode, it won’t work at all with the firestore if you do that. You set the camera to 720/24p mode (or 720/30p mode), and set the FIRESTORE to P2/PN mode (or Quicktime PN) mode.
It works, but it’s got issues. It only records 24fps or 30fps, if you set the cam to any variable frame rates then the “pn” simulation doesn’t work anymore and it reverts back to normal 60fps recording. Also, it won’t play audio when you go to play the clips back. So you get 2.5x as much recording time on the FS-100 in 720/24p “pn” simulation, but when you play your clips back they’ll be silent during FS-100 playback. The audio is recorded, but the only way you’ll hear it is to offload the clips from the FS-100 into a computer.
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And do you still have the MXF files? Try re-importing the footage.
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It’s not the cameras, it’s FCP. Report it as a bug to Apple.
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There’s no word on capacity because there *is* no capacity. That new device doesn’t have any storage in it (unless something changed from when they introduced it at DV Expo). It records to cards, not to a hard disk. It’s not a P2 Store replacement. Although apparently it may allow you to plug in an external FW or USB drive and do the same type of job that a P2 Store does, but that’s not really what it’s for.
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Hey Tarik, thanks! Glad it helped. For those who want to check it out it’s available on Amazon.
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P2 Genie’s supposed to be getting an update to add CRC verification, so that’ll take care of the laptop verifying situation…
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If you’ve got the budget, and you like Premiere Pro, I’d definitely go Axio over Avid. Avid doesn’t do several things that the HVX does; 1080/24p for example.
For P2 integration Axio is amazing. It really integrates the P2 workflow the way that it’s “supposed” to be done. It even goes a step further than other solutions because it actually integrates the P2 metadata into Windows Explorer, so when you open up a card and look at a clip you can choose to see the timecode, user clip name, scene number, take number, etc. right there in your explorer window. It also cross-references the MXF file over to the icon, so when you look in your “video” directory it substitutes the generic MXF icon with the actual clip thumbnail picture. Very, very nice.
But not usable on a laptop.
Now, Raylight on the other hand, is dirt cheap, and gives Premiere (and Vegas) full native MXF integration. Not quite to the same degree with Windows and whatnot (like Axio does) but then again, it’s not $4000. And Raylight works on the laptop! So you may want to end up with both.
With both solutions, the whole process of copying to a hard disk can just disappear. You can edit right off the cards. Shoot the footage, edit the footage. No waiting, no file conversion, no unwrap/rewrap, no nothing — just shoot, plug in the card, edit. Maybe not so practical a workflow with today’s tiny cards, but with the 16’s coming out in a couple of months (hopefully) and rumors that we might have 32’s coming out by the end of this year, well, that starts to change everything. Editing right from the cards is going to become a priority. Raylight offers it right now for Vegas and Premiere Pro; EDIUS and AXIO do it perfectly, and Avid can do it to some degree. Hopefully Avid’s next revision will “get it right” in time for the larger cards.
The other great thing about Raylight is that you can download a trial copy of Premiere Pro and a trial copy of Raylight. Try it out on your system. If it does everything you need, you just saved $3000 or so on hardware. But Axio will always have more realtime capability and it also has the hardware monitoring, something you can’t have without a hardware board.
Bottom line is: if you want to use Premiere Pro, and can afford Axio, that combination offers the most-integrated, most-powerful P2 workflow possible. It’s not cheap, and some people don’t like Premiere Pro, so you have to make sure it’s right for you. But if it is, if you want Premiere Pro, Axio is the tightest integration system that delivers on all the promises that P2 makes. EDIUS is a close second, it’s really neck-and-neck, the only difference being that a) you can get a software-only version of EDIUS or you can spend for the hardware, and b) Axio integrates the P2 metadata into Windows, whereas EDIUS doesn’t. Next-most-integrated would be Raylight with either Premiere Pro or Vegas — it’s really fantastic what Marcus van Bavel has done. Quite a bit further back would be Avid; Avid at least lets you edit off the cards, but its hard-disk editing workflow is a tad goofy IMO (having to copy the audio and video files separately to C:\Avid Media Files\MXF\1?!?!”) and it doesn’t support all the modes. Next-to-last, for P2 integration, is FCP. The new importer for FCP is nice and certainly better than before, but having to transcode to a custom file format is sooooo 2006. Works fine for today, but when we’re ingesting 32gb cards any editor that doesn’t have native MXF support is going to fall to the back of the pack.
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