Daniel Stone
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Thanks for the info, guys!
I looked at the footage through a production monitor and I will say that it looks a million times better than through the viewfinder. The motion is still jerky, though. I’m going to try removing the extra frames through capture… we’ll see what happens. In working with the HVX, DVX and SDX I’ve learned what Todd mentioned – that you shouldn’t be able to tell a difference between 2:3 and 2:3:3:2. With this camera there definitely is a difference, though, and it’s really distracting. It reminds me of a strobe filter from a cheesy wedding video.
As for the ‘glutton for punishment’ comment, the reason I said that is that I rented the camera despite all the bad reviews and known downsides. Why did I rent it? Because the HVX-200 wasn’t available and I’m a huge fan of the XL-1, XL-2 and I was curious. I will say that I was extremely impressed with the overall picture color and layout of the camera (again, I’m a huge fan of the Canon XLs). Downsides are that the HD lens has CRAZY amounts of chromatic abberation, that funky pulldown motion and HORRIBLE latitude sensitivity. Add to that the fact that the camera doesn’t import 1080 24f into FCP through Firewire and you have a camera niched for news-gathering applications. The camera certainly isn’t terrible – it’s just not ideal for my purposes. I do think this camera would be great for a college news studio or to send a live feed to a large screen at an event or conference (with that direct out).
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By the way, it’s FCP 5.1 on a G4 with OS X 10.4.6.
Thanks!
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Yea, that’s what I thought. Where could I find out for sure? Do I have to hire a lawyer to research that?