[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Steve,

Your title implies that you recorded on P2 but in reality you only recorded DV. If you had recorded on P2, then you would have no issue because you could transfer your footage over the USB ports. Unfortunately you chose to record on DV tape, and you have to digitize, and as Jeremy pointed out that will require a streaming input like 1394.

Perhaps you have a friend that has an older computer that will let you use it to capture your footage. Then next time record on the P2s.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi James,

Check your firmware version in the camera. If it is 9.28, you are good to go. If not, upgrade. If you haven’t already registered your camera for the 4 year add-on warranty , do so today!

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi Matt,

Just as I suggested to others, you should talk to the people at the NJ service center, not just get the RMA number and be done. They all are human and they all have compassion, spell out your case and I have seen them do some consideration. They may not fix it for free, but they may give it a price break. Talk to them rationally, reasonably and they will work with you, I have seen it time and time again.

Tell them I sent you.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

While I am not able to see the footage, poor internet support this morning, I have a guess, did you have the image stabilizer on?

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

The E series card is based on Multi-Level Cell Memory and thus also has fewer rewrites. Its end of life would be if you filled it every day and reformated you would have expended the memory in 5 years. In general by the time you have expended the card you will probably want a bigger card.

It is true that the MLCM is faster than the Single Level Cell Memory and so more speed can be gained if there isn’t anything in the way, like a slower interface.

As far as AVC-Ultra,it can write to any of the P2 cards we have brought to the market including the 4 GB cards. We designed them so that there was a future in them, it is why we didn’t choose any other recording device. We wanted the ability to write any of our formats to the card.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hiade in offer is only on the 3700.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi John,

Don’t think that there is such a paper anywhere. They are very different cameras with a huge difference in price. If you are looking for a camera that will give you the same or better lowlight performance as your D600 then I would say you should go with the HPX500.

Any other concerns or needs?

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

The HMC150 and the HPX170 are visually the same on the camera portion. This would also include the AG-HVX200A. They all have the same lowlight performance as they all have the same imagers.

Best,

jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

How was the data moved from the cards to the HDD? Did the video play in the camera at the time? Did you notice in the thumbnail display any pink !s?

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

Here is reality. DVCPRO HD is by far a better, kinder , more gentle codec than AVCHD. Don’t even start with the “but the AVCHD has a full raster footprint” argument. The top data rate on AVCHD is 21Mbs, DVCPRO HD is 100Mbs. Point is the signal starts uncompressed at 8bit at 994Mbs. So that odd signature footprint for DVCPRO HD is due to a prefitler so the compression ratio is 6.7:1 instead of 10:1. You can do the math on the AVCHD. DVCPRO HD was designed from the get-go for high-end HD production. Up until December 2005 the only camera you could buy that had it was the Tape Based VariCam.

You can seen DVCPRO HD virtually any day of the week on Broadcast TV. ESPN is a huge user, as just one example, and another is the most beautiful Nature Documentary series Planet Earth, also done in DVCPRO HD.

AVCHD on the other hand was developed for the consumer end of things, to bring consumers into the HD Domain. The HMC150 was designed as a professional camer to appeal to that group of cusmers that need professional features but can’t afford the I-Frame codec of DVCPRO HD. If cheap media is your ticket to Heaven then the HMC150 is the train you should catch.

I would compare the HMC150 to the HDV cameras or even the XDCam EX cameras. The codec is that good, better than HDV easily.

Yes it is confusing that the HPX170 looks like the HMC150 and the imagers are identical, but they are not in the same ball park when it comes to the rest of the camera, the workflow and the codec. Somethings feel the same but they definitely are not.

Hope this helps,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems