[Jayfarrington]

John,

So finally I have had a moment to test, and indeed, when the RC data save is “ON” at the RC10’s “function” submenu, it will remember what’s been painted for channel A or channel B on the camera. And powering down the RC10 does not reset this – great news indeed (for me).

-Jay Farrington
DIT/Owner
http://www.chatercamera.com

[Jayfarrington]

Tony,

Where were you in my BVW600 days?? That RM-P9 trick would have been a great thing to know about! I’m so glad that Sony tucked it so thoroughly away that I never found out about it until right now, when I haven’t used a betacam camera in years. Typical. But good for you for knowing what others didn’t!

Scene files don’t get “everything” as you well know, so I’m not a fan of relying on that, not to mention the time taken to write them for each location/paintjob. Minutes, I know … But when I speak of painting and unplugging to let the DP do his thing – it’s when the producer and DP have both said “no”, and I paint it quickly anyway, unplug, and let them do their thing. What they remember in post if I DON’T do that is, “that guy’s camera didn’t look so good on the b-roll”. Argh!

I haven’t been available to get to my HDX900 and paintbox to test whether or not the paintbox remembers to save the data after power cycling or not. I’ll post when I get to it.

Speaking of Ikegami, have you seen the new RC10 paintbox? What a throwback! It’s a slightly beefier RCP-50 basically! I love it! And finally Panasonic allows the video signal to come down the paintbox cable to the RCP (without gobbling up a port on the camera). It has it’s “own” downconverted VBS out, color, with menus, frame markers, you name it – all separate from the Video Out and Monitor Outs from the camera. Really nicely done.

-Jay “It’s no F900R, but …” Farrington
DIT/Happy Owner

[Jayfarrington]

Thanks Jan – I can deal with that.

As John says, I hope it’s something the paintbox remembers – that would be the normal/equivalent of ECU Data Save at least.

John, I will test this when my HDX900 gets back from it’s current rental and post results here.

-Jay Farrington
DIT/HDX Owner/Asset Hole
http://www.chatercamera.com

[Jayfarrington]

Thanks Bruce. Hoping to hear from someone who has done white shading with the H series I guess.

Jan? Steve?

Any info would be helpful, thanks.

-Jay Farrington
Video Engineer/DIT
San Francisco Bay Area

[Jayfarrington]

You’ve probably gotten the reply you needed by now, but if not . . .

My own personal experience is that a promist filter on an F900 makes the image way too mushy. Having said that, this is probably because I’ve only used an F900 to shoot 29.97PsF or 23.98PsF. There is already so much softening due to motion blur (even with a 180 degree filter engaged) that front glass never seems necessary. I also tend to run my detail in the -75 to -50 range, so that probably contributes to this as well?

I’ve only used a promist at 23.98PsF once, and that was for a “flashback” shot – intentionally mushy with slight blooming to the highlights.

The “sharpness” of HD that you have heard about may be in reference to either 59.94i HD, which has a very sharp “video” look – or it may be in reference to the depth of field issue and the difficulties in throwing backgrounds out of focus (compared to SD video). But it probably wasn’t refering to sharpness problems when in 29.97PsF or 23.98PsF.

Hope this helps,

Jay Farrington
DIT/Video Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area

[Jayfarrington]

Jeff,

Thanks for the update and information so far on the HDX900. Other questions if you can answer them:

Will there really be a new paintbox for this camera? Or will it work with the EC3?

Are we talking true, unique and individual 1080 lines of resolution? Or are the chips optimized for 720P (same as the VariCam) and then upresed in camera to 1080? Similar to spitting out 1080 from 720P footage from the 1200a deck?

Thanks in advance,

-Jay

Jay Farrington
Video/Sound Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area

[Jayfarrington]

Thanks John, this is what I thought, but was hoping I was wrong. I understand that those settings want to live with the camera, but it would still be nice to get to through the paintbox so that I don’t have to kick the DP off the dolly at the top of the day, just to make sure the audio settings and time code are where they’re supposed to be 😉

Thanks again for the info,

Jay Farrington
Video/Sound Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area

[Jayfarrington]

Got it, thanks for the info Jeff. Reminds me of when digibeta first came out and the setup files from the 600 couldn’t be read to the new 700s for the same reason. Makes sense.

And I’m sure once a few of us (I’m using one on commercials all week) have saved a few files in the H, we’ll just post them somewhere for people to download directly too.

-Jay Farrington
Video/Sound Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area