Steven Gladney
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I can relate to your fustration, but I wouldn’t hold off on any projects waiting on it. I mailed in my Rebate form on December 26th, Panasonic received it on the December 29th and I got my P2 Card and HVX Book last week (Feb. 16th). It is a lengthy process and will require some patience.
If it helps, you can go to this url to check the status:
Click on the appropriate link and enter in your relevant info. It should at least show you a status. But, to be honest with you, I just received mine last week and the status still shows “Fulfillment In Process”.
Again, if you are waiting on this card to do work and you can’t afford to buy another, then rent one. Either that or a Firestore. But just like with most rebates, this is going to happen quickly.
Steven Gladney
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I appreciate you guys taking the time to clarify my post from earlier. I was attempting not to over inundate “raiderneal” with too much information. I didn’t want to flood his brain with long GOP structures and interframe vs. intraframe, and so forth and so on. To echo what many of you have already said, I don’t think HDV is a necessarily “bad” format at all. I believe it has it’s place. But from personal experience and the experiences of some of my collegues, it can be a bear to shoot and edit. A lot of “jittery” movement (to borrow an adjective from an associate of mine) and artifacting with scenes with lots of movement have been a commonly expressed problem with HDV. Part of the reason I’ve avoided like the plague. But, many people have had a lot of success with it and that is why I challenge anyone whose interested in it to “TRY IT FOR YOURSELF”! Rent a camera and shoot some footage and see how you like it. I love my HVX200 and I shoot some event stuff, but it is simply not the ideal camera for shooting events (in HD anyways) because of P2 limitations. I do, however, love the footage I’ve gotten from shooting HD with the camera, all of the different frame rate options, and, of course, the tapeless workflow option! And editing HD is really no different than editing DV.
But in the end, it’s really going to fall down to your preferences and, probably more so, your budget. Test what you like, and buy what you can afford (and, even more so, what you NEED! If you don’t need it, RENT IT! Boy how I wish I could follow that advise 🙂
Steven Gladney
Sometimes the obvious is hidden in plain view.
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Most of what you’re hearing about HDV is the fact that it can be a difficult format to work with. It is NOT true HD, it is a “basterdized” version of it, if you will. Many people have a lot of success with it, but many choose to avoid it because of it’s compression and editing issues. I myself just recently purchased a Panasonic HVX200 and a large reason for that purchase was because it did true HD. I looked at the same Canon model you mentioned, and was willing to say that maybe HDV was “good enough”. But a financial opportunity came about that made my first choice, the HVX, a possibility. I think there are far too many HDV cameras out there for the technology/camera to become obsolete tomorrow. But I would highly suggest you taking the time to rent your camera of interest, shoot with it to make sure you like it and feel comfortable using it, and most of all, edit some footage and see what type of workflow you’d have to develope and make sure you’d be comfortable with it. If you can answer yes to all of those questions, then make the move. But more than anything, research, Research, RESEARCH as many of your different options as possible and come to a decision as to what’s best for you. Many people are still using standard def cameras and waiting until all of this HD/HDV mess gets hammered out and then make a move when it’s right for them.
Sometimes the obvious is hidden in plain view.
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Don,
I’m with you, man. I do 99% of all of my audio mixing in FCP. Soundtrack does have a couple of neat little mixing tools, like for isolating and decreasing certain sounds on a track (can’t remember off hand what the function is called). But beyond that, it’s really more of a cool tool for mixing tracks using Apples’ royalty free music selection.
Steven Gladney
Sometimes the obvious is hidden in plain view.
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What Shane says is true, assuming you are editing HDV. In your post you said “I don’t have a DV deck yet…”. This leads me to assume you know the difference between the two formats. I know some guys with the Z1 who will either just shoot DV or shoot HDV and downconvert their footage in the camera to DV and edit there. If you are editing DV, what Matte said will work fine. If you are editing HDV, then what Shane said.
Steven Gladney
Sometimes the obvious is hidden in plain view.
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Joseph,
One thing that has helped me is this website:
https://www.videouniversity.com
I found a lot of the information on this site very useful when I was first starting out. I even bought a couple of there products. I highly recommend “The NEW Video Guide to
Professional Wedding Videography” book and DVD. I think this has great information (particularly the book) and gives a really good insight to the wedding videography as a business. I definitely advise looking into it if you are interested in Wedding Videography.My advise to you as far as choosing to do one or the other (wedding or corporate) is to takle one market at a time. There are so many aspects of video production. Event (which covers Weddings, Graduations, High School Sports, etc), Commercial (Corporate and Training Videos), Legal Depositions, Broadcast Production; and in your market you may find a lot of work in some, but not necessarily in others. Try focusing on one market first (such as Wedding Videography) and see if you really like it. During to Wedding “off-season” maybe try tackling High School Sports videos (if you like that sort of thing). Then maybe explore Legal Videography (something personally, I am not a big fan of) or corporate training videos or whatever floats your boat. You don’t necessarily have to master each of these markets before you move on to the next, but get comfortable with them. Each type of videography service has it’s own techniques to how they are produced.
Sorry about being long winded, but I hope this helps.
Sometimes the obvious is hidden in plain view.