[Randall3]

Toke, give it a rest. You keep implying that Panasonic has intentionally engineered an inferior camera when market share is so obviously at stake. Why would they do that?

The other implication is that they are just stupid for doing things this way or that. Send them your resume. Frankly, I haven’t got a clue about much of what you are talking about – I don’t know if Jan is an engineer or not, but any engineer out of the lab for awhile is going to lose touch with all the intricacies of every facet of a design – if they even knew all that in the first place. I don’t expect a marketing person to be an engineer of the same caliber as an engineer who is…well, engineering day to day.

[Randall3]

Thanks for the info Rainer!

I have other questions: When monitoring in the field – is the picture coming out of the camera 24p, or 25p in your case, (i.e. How accurate is the monitoring)?

Also, when a clip starts on one card and rolls over to the next card, does that create one file or two when downloaded to a computer?

I have looked, but I cannot find the on-line manual (pdf) for the SPX-800. Do you know of one?

Sorry for so many questions – but info is scarce on this camera.

[Randall3]

‘any shot with a pan or any movement has a desperate jagged or vertical wave look’

1. Did you turn off ‘track motion?’
2. Did you encode at a low bit rate? VBR?
3. Did you try deinterlacing the footage/photo before encoding?

[Randall3]

Right clip on the clip and click the media tab and set the alpha to straight or multiplied – chances are, it’s an alpha already.

[Randall3]

Take your heartbeat sound and add a marker at each beat. Go to pinch-punch filter and punch out your logo at each beat using the same key frame (you don’t have to add much punch for the effect to work) Now add two keyframes between each punch with the logo with no punch added. Move those two no punch keyframes around to get the right action. Repeat those between punches and bingo – a beating logo.

[Randall3]

especially this tidbit: “In all image chestnut thornback tar…”

Those are secret instructions to Panasonic agents around the world.

[Randall3]

pinch and punch works for that

[Randall3]

‘…at around US$20,000 Infinity with all the flexibility and SD and HD recording formats will be hard to beat.’

I agree – it’s going to be quite a camera. The JPEG-2000 codec seems like an editors dream – in terms of scalability, and 10 bit to boot! Do you know if ‘Collateral’ was shot with the JPEG-2000 codec?

[Randall3]

That helped a great deal, Rainer, thank you! Do you find that your shooting ratio has gone down, being that it’s so easy to delete bad takes, etc?

Also, do you use the metadata features often to mark takes, etc?

Would you suggest getting more than 5 cards? 5 – 8gig cards would give me about 1:20:00 in recording time at DVC50 quality – correct?

[Randall3]

Duplicate the track and on the top track apply the cookie cutter filter – rectangle shape – adjust feather and position and then apply brightness filter to that. You will have to key-frame position to compensate for camera movement. I applied .31 feather on your still and it looks quite natural. Hope that helps.