Joe Moulins
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Thanks for your help.
Joe
(who was up until 3AM reading the manual before asking for help, but appreciates you taking the time to answer his question…and then taking the extra time to add just just a little more.) -
And what would the proper settings be? I’m seeing no signal whatsover.
I’m sure this is in an FAQ somewhere. No? -
[Shane Ross] “There is a workflow involved. But shooting in this format is FAR SUPERIOR to that of HDV. And much easier to work with.”
Superior. Not far superior, and not enough to overcome the limitations of trying to record hours of footage to P2 media outside the controlled conditions of a set. Not that much easier to work with either. Easier, but not much.
IMHO
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[Rennie] ”
Last time I looked the HVX was about $5300.00 at B&H and now it includes a free 8GB P2 card. You should be able to get an HVX and 3 – 8GB p2 cards for $7500.00!”Giving you a half hour recording time.
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The bag is a LowePro Commercial AW/DV. Fits the Z1U comfortably, and the A1U with lots of room to spare.
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I’ve shot about 200 hours of 60i footage for my current project, on Sony’s Z1U and A1U. Both cameras look way better than they have any right to. I have no experience with other HDV cameras, but have compared my footage with footage shot on the HVX. No question the Panasonic looks better, but not that much better. The A1U in particular is an amazing little camera. I’ve just come back from a 7 day shoot where I shot 25 hours of footage. The camera, 12 hours worth of batteries, 30 tapes, filters, mics and a steadicam Merlin all fit in a carry-on bag, with room left over for a Macbook.
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[StuS57] “Seems unwise to replace my 100a with a $7500 camera that does the exact same thing and won’t work for me in HD.”
You’ve hit the nail on the head. HVX footage looks great, but the P2 medium just doesn’t make sense for a great number of users.
HDV has a lot to recommend it. Image quality is a big, big step up from DV, with most of the benefits of DV -affordability, portability chief among them. -
Even on a Mac Pro, editing and especially rendering HDV is a slog. Outputting screening copies to tape or DVD from an HDV timeline takes hours, whereas it’s relatively zippy from a DV timeline.
HDV to DV conversion will take place overnight. Conversion time is roughly 40 minutes per hour of footage on a Mac Pro. Drive space is cheap and becoming ever cheaper. Using the method I describe ensures there is only one format conversion, from HDV-whatever, rather than going from HDV-DVCPro-whatever.The only problem I forsee is one of media management; ensuring FCP can always find the HDV version of a DV file. So far, I haven’t had any problems in testing, but I’ve ben bitten by Media manager before.
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Quinn, take a look at my post about workflow below. In my case, we want to both avoid editing HDV, and converting to DVCPROHd (only because we’re required to deliver HDCam SR, which I didn’t point out in my original post).
Might work for you?
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1 – Storage space for DVCPro100 is approx 2.5 times combined HDV and DV.
2 – Time to transfer tape to system as opposed to Firestore disk to system disk.
3 – Applies an additional layer of compression.
4 – Requires additional hardware, either firewire-sdi converter, or analog-sdi.