Matt Devino
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Overall I think the EX1 wins. Definitely more light sensitive, looks about 3 stops more sensitive, definitely sharper and picks up more minute details (check out the little gold reindeer on the site), vertical resolution is better, it seems to have a lot less noise – especially when using gain, and I loved the lens on it being fully manual – it felt more like using a film camera. I also like the fact that the codec is actually 1920×1080 instead of 1280×1080, although it is a bit more of a pain to import into Final Cut, and it sucks you can’t use a PPC Mac at all for the sony viewer software.
I think the HVX probably has slightly better color reproduction (although our white balance seems to be off on the HVX in the tests we did). It may have a more “filmic” look, being softer and more saturated, but that’s up for debate. I’m not hating on the HVX either, it’s been my go to camera for a while and I love it.
Either way I think both cameras are great, and both will be used for a long time. But if I were to purchase today I would pick the Sony.
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Overall I think the EX1 wins. Definitely more light sensitive, looks about 3 stops more sensitive, definitely sharper and picks up more minute details (check out the little gold reindeer on the site), vertical resolution is better, it seems to have a lot less noise – especially when using gain, and I loved the lens on it being fully manual – it felt more like using a film camera. I also like the fact that the codec is actually 1920×1080 instead of 1280×1080, although it is a bit more of a pain to import into Final Cut, and it sucks you can’t use a PPC Mac at all for the sony viewer software.
I think the HVX probably has slightly better color reproduction (although our white balance seems to be off on the HVX in the tests we did). It may have a more “filmic” look, being softer and more saturated, but that’s up for debate. I’m not hating on the HVX either, it’s been my go to camera for a while and I love it.
Either way I think both cameras are great, and both will be used for a long time. But if I were to purchase today I would pick the Sony.
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Overall I think the EX1 wins. Definitely more light sensitive, looks about 3 stops more sensitive, definitely sharper and picks up more minute details (check out the little gold reindeer on the site), vertical resolution is better, it seems to have a lot less noise – especially when using gain, and I loved the lens on it being fully manual – it felt more like using a film camera. I also like the fact that the codec is actually 1920×1080 instead of 1280×1080, although it is a bit more of a pain to import into Final Cut, and it sucks you can’t use a PPC Mac at all for the sony viewer software.
I think the HVX probably has slightly better color reproduction (although our white balance seems to be off on the HVX in the tests we did). It may have a more “filmic” look, being softer and more saturated, but that’s up for debate. I’m not hating on the HVX either, it’s been my go to camera for a while and I love it.
Either way I think both cameras are great, and both will be used for a long time. But if I were to purchase today I would pick the Sony.
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Overall I think the EX1 wins. Definitely more light sensitive, looks about 3 stops more sensitive, definitely sharper and picks up more minute details (check out the little gold reindeer on the site), vertical resolution is better, it seems to have a lot less noise – especially when using gain, and I loved the lens on it being fully manual – it felt more like using a film camera. I also like the fact that the codec is actually 1920×1080 instead of 1280×1080, although it is a bit more of a pain to import into Final Cut.
I think the HVX probably has slightly better color reproduction (although our white balance seems to be off on the HVX in the tests we did). It may have a more “filmic” look, being softer and more saturated, but that’s up for debate.
Either way I think both cameras are great, and both will be used for a long time.
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Hmm, too bad. Thanks for your help.
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Have your post facility capture your HDCAM tapes to a hard drive as ProRes and edit that, it will look much better than going to HDV and your system should be able to handle it as long as you can run firewire800 drives.
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Just my two cents here, it may not have anything to do with this problem, but I was seeing the exact same thing happen in Compressor when I took 1440×1080 HDV clips and made them 1920×1080 square pixel ProResHQ files. The same thing would happen if I took an HDV clip and dropped it into a 1920×1080 ProRes timeline in FCP 6.0.1 and rendered. I would say it has to be the fact that HDV and DVCPRO HD are non-square animorphic formats, as others above have stated. So it may not just be a still image export problem, more of a FCP/Quicktime conversion from an animorphic HD format to a non-animorphic HD format. But please prove me wrong, as I can’t prove that this is the problem, it’s just an educated guess.
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We have 2 wacom tablets here, I only use mine for motion graphics stuff, but the other editor here prefers his for editing as well. I like using the Apple mighty mouse, the scroll ball makes navigating your timeline really fast, no need to drag the slider bar at the bottom to scroll through the timeline.
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As long as your computer has firewire 800, just put it on a firewire 800 drive, preferably something with 2 drives in a RAID (a bunch of different manufacturers make theses). And away you go, no need to do an offline.
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FCP 6.0.2 lets you remove pulldown on capture from the V1U, so you could just capture as HDV at 1080P24 and have your logging info. I do agree it sucks that you can’t log your footage when converting to AIC or ProRes, although when removing pulldown the clip gets 23.98 code instead of 29.97 code that’s on tape, so you really couldn’t do a proper recapture. Your logging info would only be good for adding a reel name or scene info on capture.