Roli Rivelino
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Have you tried exporting to Colour? If not, give it a go, go to the geometries room and add a tracker, then room 2 (can’t remember what it’s called) and add a vignette and attach it to your tracker, then you can do what you want blur it, black it out, whatever you wish.
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
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You probably can, I’ve just never had any reason to try it, I’m sure you can flip the P2 button to DV and it’ll record at SD, which is what you do for the firestore.
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
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Have you tried exporting with compressor?
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
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I own an HVX 201 and I love it the P2 and the FS workflow into Final Cut is a dream and I’ve never had any problems (knock on wood). You say you shoot mainly SD, well the HVX can shoot SD to tape or to the Firestore.
One thing to consider is the set up cost, if you buy your P2 cards they’re pretty expensive for a workable size. 64gb will give 128 minutes at 720 and half that at 1080 and last time I checked they were about £6-700 about $1000.
Though a firestore will give you just under 3 hours at full quality and that costs around £1000 about $1600. I was lucky I picked up mine 2nd hand a couple of years ago for £3500 with a Firestore FS-100 and 2 8gb cards and a tripod.
If you’re working in the field with a FS or P2, like Shane says it’ll take a minute a gig to dump your footage.
If you don’t mind used equipment, try and find a good professional who wants to offload theirs, or if you can afford it new, go for it!
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
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Thanks Noah, that’s what I thought, I guess I was hoping to hear, it’s just as good and cheaper with a choice of lenses.
Think I’ll be sticking with the HVX till I can afford around the £10-15k mark, then maybe it’ll be worth an upgrade.
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
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Thanks gents, with your help I’ll get over my compressor phobia :-).
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100 -
Thanks Tom, however I can be a bit cumbersome with Compressor, any advice on bit rates and key frames and the like when I’m running it through?
many thanks
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
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Roli Rivelino
May 11, 2011 at 6:08 pm in reply to: To upgrade or not too upgrade? That is my questionA lot of food for thought to chew over there, many thanks guys.
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
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ah OK, thought it was just me 🙂
Many thanks.
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100 -
Will do, thanks Shane.
System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100