[John Beck]

Thanks Jan,

So the recording format has an aspect ratio of 4:3(920 X 720)right?

[John Beck]

Something seems to be off a bit..

If the sensor is native 16:9 with a discrete size of 4.6809 x 2.6330 mm, a dimension that correlates to 16:9, I can understand that to arrive at 4:3 a pixel ratio of 960X720 would provide the correct apect but 1280 X 1080 is neither 4:3 or 16:9. Is this not a mistake? Shouldn’t that be 1440 X 1080? That would make the aspect ratio work for 4:3 but is the camera truly capable of this resolution or more importantly,if it’s not, how can it provide 1920 X 1080?

[John Beck]

Richard,

Excellent comment indeed. I was unaware of native aspect ratio of the HVX 200. I thought it was indeed 16:9 which is indeed an issue like you pointed out when compositing using any other program like AE, even with tight integration to PPcs3.

Thanks for this input!!

[John Beck]

That is great Todd,
Thanks again, will be definetly be asking more questions.

[John Beck]

Todd,

Your comments are most interesting. I realize that there has to be some light sensitivity issues with HD. Already Panasonic has address some of this in the A model but what is one stop? It’s not a show stopper but an indication of the challenge of the band-width and sensitivity. Not sure I would pay to acquire the A model if I had a first eddtion HVX 200.

What I very interested in is your commnent about color correction and focus assist. That is both surprising and disappointing. I was hoping that neither would be a more exaggerated in HD but your experience tells you otherwise. Is the post editing a lot different than with SD? Other than the file size, are there other challenges to the workflow in post similar to what you pointed out with CC?

Would really like to discuss further.

[John Beck]

Great idea..thanks!!

[John Beck]

Rennie,

Thanks for the information regarding the technical challenges recording HD to tape. I had forgotten how demanding band-width requirements are for tape. I guess we could think back on the VHS days when video was barely able to keep up with NTSC resolution using tape that was 1/2″ wide.

I wonder however, if video shot using DVC tape with the HVX 200 acually looks better than video shot with say a DVX 100B.

[John Beck]

Shane,

Thanks a bunch! I guess I was really off base assuming that the DVC tape would just run faster–not sure why that would not work though–if it had been designed that way.

By the way, for a 30 minutes of recording, what would be the average space needed if one has a fire wire connection to the HCX?

Thanks a bunch for the information.

[John Beck]

Thanks Dave, I think I need to dig a bit deeper to fully understand the pull down removal and the effects of removal and not removing.

[John Beck]

Michael,

What is 24PN?