[Benjamin Tubb]

Hmm. That would make sense… I thought I had set it to work area though… and when I did it the second time, I didn’t change ANY settings and it worked normally.

[Benjamin Tubb]

Okay… apparently I suck at life, and am incapable of posting a screenshot. So here’s a link.

https://www.dallasareavideo.com/ppweird.jpg

[Benjamin Tubb]

Ah, is that because the table’s 720 HD isn’t compressed with DVCProHD? That would make a whole lot of sense.

Thanks for all your help.

Ben Tubb

[Benjamin Tubb]

Oh, and on the debt thing:

I bought the cam new for 5,000.

I only had 4,000.

[Benjamin Tubb]

…. Seriously? If so, that’s good news, and bad news.

Good, because that’s just saved our whole production.

Bad, because Creative Cow Magazine lied to me! haha….

In the first issue, there was a big table that told me 720p/59.94, at 8bit, 4:2:2, takes 6.3 GB a minute, and 376 GB an hour. Now you’re telling me that more than two hours is only 122 GB?

Wow, I really hope that Bessie lied. That would be helpful…

So what am I missing there?

[Benjamin Tubb]

Ugh. Thanks for your ideas, I’m gonna look into them, but seriously. UGH. When I say we have 325 dollars, I mean, we actually have NO MONEY (We’re paying for this literally out of our own wallets, and mine currently has one dollar in it), and are working at our crappy 7 dollar an hour jobs to collaboratively come up with $325 by the time we need to start shooting.

When most people say “My budget is this much” they mean that’s how much they are allowed to spend. When I say it, I mean I actually don’t have access to any more than that. I’m already $1,000 dollars in debt because of my HVX-200 (actually $750 in debt now, big paycheck came in, woo!).

I know what you’re gonna say: “You should have stuck with MiniDV, instead of making the HD jump when you don’t have the cash.”

This script is awesome, and I don’t want to use up this opportunity on MiniDV. Plus, last time I checked, miniDV SUCKS on a theater screen.

I’ll try to see if I can sucker more money out of my parents and such, but seriously. UGH.

[Benjamin Tubb]

Thanks guys, great help.

[Benjamin Tubb]

In 480i, you can shoot either way.

There’s 3 recording modes available for 480i on the HVX200p:

Normal – standard 4:3 recording.

Letterboxed – 16:9, just 4:3 with the top and bottom chopped off.

Squeezed – records 16:9 but squeezes it into a 4:3, so you can strecth it back out later for true 16:9.

Hope that helps,
Ben Tubb

[Benjamin Tubb]

I know, I was just hoping to see it on my Dad’s new HDTV.

Thanks,

Ben Tubb

“Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”

[Benjamin Tubb]

… Are you serious? UGH. And to think I was excited that I could do HD in PP2…

And Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are considerably out of my budget range right now (I’m a high school student making 6.50 an hour) 🙂

Thanks anyways man,

Ben Tubb

“Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”