Barry Green
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Yes you can sync timecode via firewire. You have to set them both to the same TC mode, and choose FREE RUN and TC PRESET. Then designate one camera as the master and the other as the slave. Put the master in camera mode, and the slave in VCR mode and set “1394 TC INPUT” to “on”. Then connect them via firewire, and press the TC SET button; the slave will read the incoming timecode stream and force its TC PRESET to match what the other camera’s outputting. From that point on they should stay in sync.
Note: this will not work if you’re using 720/24pN mode or 720/30pN mode. In those modes no data is output via the firewire; no video, and no timecode. So you’d have to change to 720/24P mode first in order to be able to set the timecode, then swap back to 720/24pN mode.
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No, it’s not like what the Canon does. The Canon thing was taking an interlaced image and creating a field out of each frame. The HVX is true variable frame rate progressive scan, and not just at 60fps, but also at 48 and 36 and 32 and 30 and 26 and 24 and 22 and 20 and 18 and 12 fps. Each frame is imaged discretely at the set interval, just like a film camera would.
Here are some more examples:
Mac: https://www.silverphoenixllc.com/wolves.mov
PC: https://10framehandles.com/movies/wolvesHD_720_Hi001.movMac: https://www.dvxuser3.com/hvx3/720-60cheer.mov
https://www.dvxuser3.com/hvx3/720-DVCPRO-ball.Xmov (remove the X when saving)
PC: https://www.stickypod.com/stickypod_upload/uploads/720p-bball-half.mp4Other clips:
https://599productions.com/Guns.html
https://motivitypictures.com/hvx200/motivity_snow_day.html
https://www.motivitypictures.com/hvx200/snow_footage.html
Plus, if you’ve ever wanted to know what it looks like when it hits the fan:
https://www.fiftv.com/HVX200/Hits-The-Fan.movX (remove the “X”)—————–
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Panasonic touts the HVX as being an ideal B-cam for the VariCam, so it would seem suitable for your intended purpose; certainly more suitable than a DVX would be.
And HD can be recorded on the cards, or through the firewire port to any DVCPROHD-capable recording device (such as FCP, Avid or Canopus editing systems, a FireStore, or the HD1200A DVCPRO-HD tape deck).
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I don’t know if the question was meant to involve VariCam vs. HVX, was it? The question originally asked was the difference between P2 and DVCPRO-HD tape. You can chain an HVX to an AJ-HD1200A deck and record straight to tape with it; the resulting image will be bit-for-bit identical to what you would have gotten had you recorded onto the P2 card instead. That’s what I meant…
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No difference whatsoever. The recorded information will be bit-for-bit identical.
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Thanks for the clarification, Jan. Two SECONDS, not two FRAMES — got it.
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The red X means the clip needs to be repaired. I haven’t found a clip yet that can’t be repaired, and I think I read somewhere that the most you’ll lose is two frames.
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I wasn’t the operator. We had plenty of people on set.
1080 would have been a challenge. I don’t know that I would want to undertake a situation like this using just two 4gb cards when shooting 1080! In just a few weeks the FireStore should come out and minimize the worries about short recording times.
But even so, it worked. We shot for an hour on two cameras, 720/24pN, using two cards per camera with one spare. Worked just fine.
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We did an hour-long roundtable discussion for an infomercial, using two 4GB cards per camera. This is pretty much the worst-case nightmare scenario. And yes, it went plenty fast enough to keep up with the discussion. We used 720/24pN mode, so 10 minutes per card, that gave me time to pull the full card, offload it, use the P2 Viewer to verify the clips, and start the system copying a second/duplicate backup copy of the footage, then format the card in the laptop and have it ready to go for the next swap.
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Autofocus works fine when put in situations where autofocus generally works fine.
What I mean by that is: autofocus systems need certain parameters in order to perform well. And you can put the HVX in situations that are outside of those parameters. When you do, you should expect that autofocus performance will suffer.
So if you’re in an AF-friendly environment (meaning, a fast frame rate like 60i or 60p, and some decent contrast in your shot) then the autofocus performs very well.
But if you put the camera in 24p mode, you have to expect that autofocus performance will not be of the same caliber. The 24hz frame rate means that the autofocus system is getting new information updates only 40% as frequently as it does in 60i/60p. The slower the updates, the slower the response. That’s not the camera’s fault, or the autofocus system’s fault, it’s just the way things work.
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