John Sharaf
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Dave,
If wide master is bigger than you can afford to light, shoot it at magic hour at 3200K balance; the headlights and caution lights will indicate night and with the use of your HMI’s you can easily recreate the ambient color for the closer shots which you’ll make in full night.
Another very usefull took is a helium baloon light; by judicious placement you can do everything with the one light a several little lights on the ground. Airstar is one brand, there are others I believe.
JS
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Rob,
If you own the gear why not put a tape shot in the HDX900 into your 1200A and see if it plays? Then you’ll be the expert!
JS
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Rob,
The sales people at places like Abel, Band Pro, B & S, etc are often very nice and appear knowledgable, but the fact is that factory product managers, working professionals and actual equipment owners are the ones who really know how things work. In this case, because you refuse to believe me, please call a real expert at Panasonic. His name is Steve Mahrer, and he’s in the NJ office and usually quite accessible on his office or cell phone. I stand to be corrected, but it’s highly unlikely that Panasonic would create a product the requires “adjustment” to use one type of 9 micron recording vs. another. They have done some stupid things in my oppinion as regards the HDX900 (like a $4200 controller for a less expensive camera) but I don’t think they’d do what you’re suggesting!
JS
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Rob,
I repeat, the 1200A/1400 is fully capable of playing both 9 micron (as is recorded both by the deck itself and the HDX900 camera) and 18 micron tapes (as is recorded in the Varicam and 130/150 VTR’s) without any adjustment!
JS
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Rob,
Not to worry; your 1200A VTR will play both 9 and 18 micron tapes – otherwise it would not be able to play back tapes it recorded itself! There is no “adjustment” necessary. If there is it would have to do with the size of the tape itself, but I’m not sure about that because I only have the Varicams, but I know that the 900 takes a different sized tape. You tell us if it fits in the deck.
JS
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Patrick,
“Breathing” in a lens refers to the image size changing as the focus does; especially noticable when you focus from near to far of vias versa. The Lens can be seen to be “zooming” while you are only turning the focus knob. Cine style HD lenses are designed to minimize or eliminate this effect, as well as exposure “ramping” but usually with the penalty of added weight and mass.
JS
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Backwoods,
Simple advice is to seek out a lawyer experienced in motion picture rights. It might require a skilled researcher too to find out more about your subject; namely, does anyone else already own thr rights you seek. Are there books written on the sub cject? Even though your Ed Parker is dead, there might be an estate which controls his story, it’s endless!
You are correct in wondering about wasting your time (and money) but it’s the only way to protect yourself in the long term. The thought process you’re going through is what every other filmmaker does, and sometimes great films are produced, othertimes (more frequently) nothing comes of it!
Good luck,
JS
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Michael,
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but the HDX900 uses the same 1.1 million pixel set that the Varicam uses so it does not “have more pixels”. It’s 1080 implementation is by scaleing, just as the 1200/1400 deck does. I wouldn’t be suprised to learn that theyv both use the same design concept and/or chip to do so.
JS
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Ray,
Sorry about the typo/slip; until I spend the $25K on one I’m sure I’ll subconsciously keep calling it by the wrong name!
JS
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Possibly systems freq was miusset to 60 Hz (rather than 59.94) on origional Varicam materials; this would preclude downconversion. I believe there is a way to determine this from the user bits if you do not have access to camera.
JS