John Larsen
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Tony,
No offense taken, And I do appreciate the offer, my e-mail is jlarsen@austin.rr.com and I would like to pick your brain every now and then when these kind of questions come up. Bottom line, I just want to make great looking film and video.
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Wow, I didn’t mean to stir the pot. But thanks again to the folks with good advice. And by the way I do own a HVX-200 and a Sony Z1U, different toys for different budgets and jobs. Lets keep positive and hope 2007 will be a good year for expanding the HD universe. I value those of you who are willing to share their useful insights.
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Tony-
Since I am using the Panasonic HDX900 you can safely assume I am shooting High Def. My work flow usually innvolves shooting HD to tape, digitizing into Final Cut uncompressed, performing the edit and spitting the final product out, down converting to Digital Beta Cam for distribution. Why would I consider “If then view in Crappy NTSC, record to VHS and make dubs based on a Compuvideo NTSC waveform”?I really don’t consider the HDX900 low cost HD. We all have to be realistic with the budgets given us and I always try to give my clients the best bang for their buck. Thanks to major manufacturers throwing low cost HD cameras on the market there are a thousands young folks know nothing about density and color space, yet we have to compete with them in the market place Unless something goes horribly wrong with an image many times the client usually doesn’t notice.
I usually set my camera up using a Chroma DuMond chart and set my blacks to the 7.5 standard and was looking for some helpful advice on the pitfalls of using an SD waveform/vectorscope. Thank you Tom Krohn I appreciate your advice. You are very correct once your blacks are crushed they are…well, crushed. Knowing where the product will end up has never been more important in the workflow process. Any practical advice in these times of transition in greatly appreciated.
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You guys are great thanks a bunch.
John Larsen DP
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We have put the Canon 4.7×11 w/ extender on our HDX900. It does have some fun house efx in the corners, just z past it. When you consider the versatility of a really wide angle we had to go with it. I have yet to use the digital drive features yet. We find ourselves shooting in a lot of tight spaces, cars, helicopters, small rooms this lens gives us a lot. I really like it.
John Larsen DP
OxHerd Productions Inc./Arrowhead Films -
It would be nice to to get a baseline setting like scopenorm or portrait. I use a Chroma DuMond to set up but it would be nice to see what you like. Then I was wondering do you have any settings that are better for exteriors? It’s ironic I just DP’d a commercial shoot with Ben Crenshaw with interior and exterior locations with the Varicam. I had the camera set up to give Ben some really nice skin tones. I also used a Digicon and No. 6 ND grad that helped out with the background and helped pop Ben from the background. We shot at sunrise with some very nice modeling on the fairway behind him. This time of year the sky has a really nice deep blue hue anyway
I want to shoot some test footage and samples for the web. Do you ever tweak your Greens and Blues in the Matrix or Color Correction Menus to pop those kinds of locations? If you have an exterior setting that you enjoy I would love to see it.
Thanks for your response.
John Larsen DP
OxHerd Productions Inc./Arrowhead Films -
“May I have some more please?” I just got the HVX900 last week and would love some more settings would that be possible?
John Larsen DP
OxHerd Productions Inc./Arrowhead Films -
See if you can make anything out of this site, Let me know if you can figure this out https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx
John Larsen
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Thanks for getting back so soon. I’m editing avi’s. Project settings are For Canopus Realtime Play Back i have Stop playback at frame drop (i think i’ll disable this one) Color Space-RGB Emulation Performance-Standard, Overall quality-Mid, Decision- All Realtime.
John Larsen
OxHerd Productions Inc.