Lars Wikstrom
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Do what I did. Forget about the camera and then 1 day end of this year or next you will walk into a store and then see it for the first time. Then you will get excited about it and by that time the market should be flooded with them and you should be able to get one hopefully bellow retail instead of above which I am sure they can go for now. Plus think about all the accessories that will be out by that time.
Good Luck
-Lars
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I have to agree and disagree with that. For the past 15 years since film school everyone says that. “Don’t worry what you shoot it on just finish it, if it’s good it will be good no matter what it is on”. I also read a good book a while back “How to make an action movie for $99” That was a good book and I recommend it for low budge film makers.
But for me this camera opens up the ‘what if’ door. What if I shoot my movie and it’s a hit, picked up and transfered to 35mm. I have seen SD to film and it looks bad. Even though 99.99999 % of films are right to DVD or TV. The low budget creator has a dream to make the best posiable motion picture he can. I never like approching projects saying “Ahh, it’s only going to be on DVD so who cares.” Even though your point are valid and people have heard them before, this camera opens the ‘what if’door a little wider and that gets me a little excited. It’s about the dream.
-Lars
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Well, I do live in the heart of Solvang but no one knows where that is so I say Santa Ynez valley. Ha HA! finaly someone who knows of Solvang!
-Lars
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Interesting. But the Varicam to 35mm will be better quality due to many factors, lenses being a large part I am sure. I would love to see the 2 cameras, Varicam and HVX200 in a film transfer test to see the differences.
I will look for your article. What magazine is it in?
-Lars
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I’m just north of LA in a small town called Santa Ynez. So it would be worth calling these people and seeing what it looks like. As a film maker I really believe this camera is going to be the bridge for video to film for low budget projects. It’s nice to know that if you make a movie with this camera and the movie is good then you can transfer to film for theatrical projection.
Thanks again,
-Lars
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Cool so you guys made the dead line you set. What I am really interested in seeing is this footage transferred to film. But I guess that will be some time until I can see that. But I am eagerly waiting.
This month in DV magazine they did an article on HDV to film transfer and all I could think was what a waste of time. But the article said that it looked OK, almost like 16mm blown up to 35mm. I
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Ahhh, thanks for the information on that!
-Lars
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I see what you are talking about. I wonder if you jam sync a few HVX and need to change the batteries if you need to re jam sync it or if it will continue with the correct TC after you drop a new bat in.
-Lars
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Ahhh, thank you for the clarification. I though Advanced was Native.
One last question regarding native mode. If you shoot 12 FPS native it lays 12fps to the P2 cards. But, if you shoot 12 FPS to hard drive (normal mode) will it then do a 12 to 30 conversion like 24 to 30 with duplicated frames?
-Lars
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Maybe I miss understood the ‘advanced p’ Shooting to a hard drive attached to the HVX it was doing a 24 to 30 conversion on the fly so you were left with duplicated frames to make it NTSC comptable. But with P2 cards you could select, what I thought was called Advanced mode, for it to only capture and store the 24 fps and not store the duplicated frames as it would if you were shooting on the DVX100.
thanks,
-Lars