[Timothyd]

Hi folks,

It does it in camera. You can see it very clearly while shooting with the BT-LH80w. You can’t see it as easily with either the LCD or EVF though, but yeah, it does it while recording and during playback.

Tim

[Timothyd]

Hi Jan,

I did test it with numerous times with no stabilization on. If it is because of stabilization then it is somehow staying on when it is turned off and the hand symbol is not on the screen. But I can see why you might think it was caused by that.

It really seems like it must be pull-down or something like that to me.

I’ll call the service center if I don’t get some feedback from my sales rep in the next day or so.

I just wanted to see if there was a known issue with some cameras. Let’s face it, anything with a computer in it can go bonkers, so I thought I’d check if you or anyone else knew anything about the problem.

Thanks,

Tim

[Timothyd]

Ok,

Number one, I am not trying to flame here. I chose the HVX200 over all of the competition because I really like Panasonic, was impressed with the footage and also my experience using DVX’s.

Number two, I was trying to find out if this is known problem, and thought some other HVX owners may have had the problem and might know a simple fix…

Is that ok with you dood?

[Timothyd]

Thanks for the quick response Jan, I truly appreciate it.

I had thought the same thing about image stabilization, but it does it whether stabilization is on or off, I can see why it would look jerky if it was trying to stabilize an image that was supposed to have a lot of movement in it.

Anyway, it really looks like duplicated frames or something to me, it has a hesitating look to it, which makes horizontal lines (in particular) look very jerky during pulls, but it generally screws up most any shot in a kind of subtle way. It just makes the video look jerky like poor animation or a computer trying to slog through footage that is too high bandwidth for it. (I had originally thought that I needed to set up a RAID in my computer, and once I did and saw that it did nothing to help I started to do more investigating.

If you are interested in seeing some sample clips I’d be happy to send you a link via e-mail.

Thanks so much,

Tim

[Timothyd]

Hi Richard,

I have contacted my sales rep, who has contacted an engineer at Panasonic who is supposed to be checking out some samples of the footage. But it is taking a long time, and I have shoots to do… From my perspective since I have proof the camera was defective when I got it because I have footage that I shot the second day out that clearly shows the problem (I’m sure the day one footage shows it too, but it doesn’t have a pull so it is much harder to see.

Anway, I was just hoping Jan would let me know if this is a known issue, and therefore cut to the chase and get me a new camera or get it fixed asap.

Tim

[Timothyd]

Jan,

I wanted to see if you could answer this question.

Thanks,

Tim

[Timothyd]

Hi,

I’ve heard that the thing most likely to go bad on a hard drive that is stored for a long time is the bearings. But I would guess that the motor could also go bad. The actual discs are just as good as tape though as far as magnetic storage mediums go.

Eventually the magnetic field of the earth will erase or drastically degrade any magnetic recording medium, with the exception of magneto optical, I believe.

With how cheap hard drives are nowadays I would suggest just planning on moving data from old archive drives to new drives every couple of years. In order to save money you could even re-use the old archive drives to backup stuff you don’t care as much about.

Good luck,

Tim

[Timothyd]

Thanks so much for the feedback everyone.

I still am wondering what the time frame is on AVC-I support straight from the P2 cards in FCP though Jan?

Thanks so much,

Tim

[Timothyd]

Thanks Jan,

So is the FCP support you mention via HDMI input using a Blackmagic intensity or something to that effect? I should have been more specific, but I’m looking to find out when/if there will be support for AVC-I right from the P2 cards.

One other question… I’ve heard it rumored that Panasonic will make a P2 adapter for other flash media available at some point. Is there any truth to this? Not that there is anything wrong with P2, but I am looking to have options for non-proprietary media usage.

Thanks,

Tim