Lars Wikstrom
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Yes very helpful thank you.
-Lars
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Did I understand that right? when the shutter is set to off it is like putting it in a manual mode? so 24p at HD or SD will set the shutter to 24 and 30 for 30p, yes?
-Lars
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Shutter off? How does that work?
-Lars
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That’s great news. I was worried that styple of card was on the way out.
-Lars
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Hi, I can tell you the things I was looking for in a camera to replace my DVCAM PD100a. 1. Was compressed HD Sine I didn’t want a massive raid to support 120 megs a second. 2. worked both in HD and SD
HDV cameras worked but I had 2 problems with that. The HDV signal was laid down to the same mini DV tape and the same 25 mega bits as my mini DV camera!!! I tell my friends imagen 25 mega bits dv tape is equal to a Mini Cooper car. Shooting DV is like putting 4 people in to this car. HDV is trying to squeeze something that is twice the size in HD (8 people) into that same car since it is still 25 megabits. and I am not a fan of GOP compression I like every frame to be it’s own image and not rely on the frames around it for it’s information.
I also think Cannon dropped the ballon there new HD camera it’s eatehr the HDV super compressed format or the switch and nolw you are uncompressed (120 megs per second ((supper masive raid)).
Panasonic got it just right. 100 mega bits for the HD. 4:2:2 color space where HDV is still 4:1:1. The more I use this camera the more I am liking it. I just put together my first 30 second commercial with this camera and I noticed right away how much bringhter and colorfull this camera is using the better color space.
I would stay away from MPEG capturing cameras unless you are going on vacation to shoot home videos. DVCPRO 50 /100 is a better way to go and will hold up better under the editing and re rendering knife.
This is at least whet I was looking for when camera shopping.
good luck,
-Lars
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I would love to send it back to you but I can’t attach a 40 meg file.
Send me a email to lars@nextlevelpro.biz and I will try to send it to you through a service.
-Lars
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Footage looked really nice. I am thinking about getting the M2 as well and was nice to see some footage from this set up that wasn’t from the Red Rock website. Just for fun I took Noah’s advice about the h.264 codec. dropped it into after effects croped the image to get rid of the excess black and rendered it. Looks almost the same and it is 40 megs instead of the 160 meg file size.
Anyways the footage looks nice. Did you use Magic Bullet Look Suites on the images at all?
nice work,
-Lars
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I called the RED EYE lens adapter people and they said that the RED EYE will fit the HVX and you can use the Hood that comes with the camera without seeing the hood through the camera.
-Lars
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I did see the Red Eye at NAB and my friend bought one right on the spot for his DVX100. I didn’t have the HVX200 until after NAB so I didn’t ask many questions. Some things I think are priced just crazy today. I can by the nice ground glass adapter for $350 (Century Optics) and then end up buying a second plastic hood for $1000. Plastic hoods should be around $35.
I’ll call the red eye people and see if I will end up filming the inside of the hood.
Thanks for the info.
-Lars
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Is that due to the adapter not being able to fit with the hood on. Or is it because the video that you capture you will be able to see the lens hood in the shot?
-Lars