| | | | SD and HD in the same project by Jim Murphy on Aug 15, 2009 at 10:17:49 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum I am working on a documentary project. Most of the clips will be from an HD camera. However, we will need to use some clips that were shot with an SD camera. What is the best way for me to make the final project work and look ok? This is the first | | | | |
| | | | Panasonic AJ-HDC27 HD Camera Varicam by David Haylock on Aug 15, 2009 at 9:03:55 pm in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum Panasonic AJ-HDC27 VariCam High Definition HD Camera.
This High Definition camcorder has been upgraded to an F (NTSC) version. I am asking $8,999 if interested call me at 305-945-8888 or email me at dhaylock@aol.com | | | | |
| | | | Sony PDW-F350 XDCam HD Camera Cinealta PAL/NTSC by David Haylock on Aug 15, 2009 at 8:57:31 pm in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum Sony PDW-F350 XDCAM HD Camcorder. This is used but in excellent condition professionally maintained and available for immediate delivery. For questions please call us @ 800-772-1111. This auction includes Camera body, viewfinder, and lens adapter.
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| | | | Illinois by Adam Rahn on Aug 15, 2009 at 8:50:09 pm in the JOBS Wanted Forum I am an HD camera operator / owner with over 3 years of experience shooting and editing sports, corporate, travel, religious, educational and documentary video. Currently I am looking for a job anywhere in IL. Please contact me for a resume and/or re | | | | |
| | | | AVCHD and AVI Multicam by Jeremy Phillips on Aug 13, 2009 at 10:38:42 pm in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Hi,
I regularly film events for schools and local groups, including drama productions and concerts etc... I normally use 4 cameras, 3 of which are Sony MiniDV camcorders and the other is a Sony HDR-SR12 AVCHD HDD Camcorder.
I use Premiere Pro C | | | | |
| | | | Camera Choice for Movie by Brad Froman on Aug 13, 2009 at 7:07:25 pm in the Cinematography Forum I will be shooting a very low-budget feature in the spring and am looking for some camera gear recommendations. I shoot a lot of commercials and corporate projects with Panasonic Varicam and the HDX900 -- both usually with the Pro Adaptor/Primes.
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| | | | Re: First HD project by Bob Zelin on Aug 11, 2009 at 7:34:22 pm in the HD High-End Forum the Sony PDW700 is an XDCam HD camera. You will import these files into your AVID.
This is the AVID document on how to do this -
http://www.avid.com/xdcam/Sony_XDCAM+AMA_Workflow_Guide.pdf
You work at an AVID DNxHD resolution - not DVCProH | | | | |
| | | | importing HD mp4 into final cut: error problem by Padraig Mannion on Aug 10, 2009 at 3:39:13 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum hi guys,
I had some footage shot for me by a friend of mine. He shot it on a HD camera and it was saved straight to disk (the card in his camera). These files were saved to his pc, and then transferred over to my mac.
Each clip has a folder | | | | |
| | | | Re: DSLR + HD VIDEO - which one to choose? by Martti Ekstrand on Aug 9, 2009 at 7:09:06 pm in the Digital Photography Forum The Hod Rod Camera PL adapter is now available at Abel Cinetech at $1199.
http://www.abelcine.com/store/product.php?productid=1001669&cat=955&page=1
I use a adapter for Canon FD primes and adapters for nearly all lens mounts that has ever been | | | | |
| | | | Multicam Editing - Vegas 9 by Jeremy Phillips on Aug 8, 2009 at 3:22:03 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Hi,
I film a lot of multicam shoots for schools and local groups and I have used Premiere Pro CS3 successfully for a few years. However, I would like to have a go with Sony Vegas 9 as it handles footage from my sony hd camera (avchd) much better.
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| | | | FOR SALE: JVC GY-HD250 with lens by Jimmy Nutter on Aug 3, 2009 at 7:13:21 pm in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum This is a sale of a used JVC GY-HD250CHU HD Camera. The lens is a Th17x5BRMU 1:1.4/5-85mm lens, There is no battery or microphone. The hours are : Drum - 62, Fan - 94.
Asking is $5,000 | | | | |
| | | | HD Camera Operator and Sony F900 Rental by Kevin Curdan on Aug 2, 2009 at 4:54:49 pm in the JOBS Wanted Forum I am an HD camera operator and own a Sony F900 Camera, two seventeen inch HD Monitors, a Fuji 22 x 7.3 HD ENG Lens, Tripod, Batteries, AC adaptor, charger, 2 lavs, a shotgun/boom, lights, 2-way radios, a FCP bay, and other production and post equipme | | | | |
| | | | Re: Systems and Solutions? Just say no. by Jeff Regan on Aug 1, 2009 at 6:37:08 pm in the Panasonic VariCam Forum I agree with Erich. The HPX3700 trade-in program is going to skew the high end 2/3" market for a long time to come--$30K will be the new price point limit going forward for high end 2/3" cameras.
The market for large sensor or 35mm DOF is NOT sma | | | | |
| | | | Re: Systems and Solutions? Just say no. by Erich Roland on Jul 31, 2009 at 1:52:53 am in the Panasonic VariCam Forum Chris, You put your finger on a few important points.
Our 2/3” cameras may be headed the way of the dodo bird. Not tomorrow or next week we have a lot of these cameras out there working, but I can picture the sales slowing dramatically in this mar | | | | |
| | | | Affter Effects: Importing MPEG 4 video by Jerome Chenette on Jul 30, 2009 at 3:22:44 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Importing MPEG 4 Video from my new HD camera has proven to be difficult!
The import results in a flickering screen with no video of recognition.
Just purchased a Mac Book Pro.
2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
4 Gigs of ram
and a 500G hard Dri | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cheap digital cameras by Gord Stephen on Jul 30, 2009 at 1:18:20 am in the Indie Film & Documentary Forum Hey Alex,
For under $2k you're looking at either a new, high end consumer HD camera (like a Canon HFS10 or HV40) or a used SD prosumer camera (like a Panasonic DVX100b). I'd be tempted to go the consumer route (which will be cheaper, and can still | | | | |
| | | | P2 cameras working with Sony Anycast AWS-G500 by Vince Cheong on Jul 30, 2009 at 12:47:25 am in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum Ok, we have been using Sony Cameras and Equipment for the past few donkey years already. Now, it's time to enter to the whole new world of HD footage. I thought of getting the Panasonic P2 AG-HPX172EN Cameras, because of it's Solid State availability | | | | |
| | | | Re: Who's buying the 3700 Varicam? by Lee Dashiell on Jul 29, 2009 at 8:22:23 pm in the Panasonic VariCam Forum It will surprise me if it has more latitude than the RED which we already own and love but for us it's not a replacement for the RED. We shoot cine style with the RED using Zeiss primes and the 3700 Varicam will be used for higher end broadcast work | | | | |
| | | | 1/2 v. 2/3 by Ken Harper on Jul 29, 2009 at 3:19:56 pm in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum We are currently using a Digibeta camera and are investigating the purchase of an HD camera. We recently produced a video similar to the Honda documentary series, http://dreams.honda.com/#/video_ni and have been told by our DP's that in order to ach | | | | |
| | | | FlipHD and inconsistent Audio by Ron Berntson on Jul 29, 2009 at 2:50:01 pm in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum There seem to have been a number of other posts on the Flip HD camera, but nothing exactly like my problem.
We were going on vacation in Europe and I wanted a camera that, if pick-pocked, I wouldn't get all bent out of shape at its loss. The good | | | | |
| | | | 50 hertz light flicker by Graham Saywell on Jul 28, 2009 at 3:45:32 pm in the AVID Editing Forum Hi Folks.
Currently onlineing an episode of a series that was shot in Spain and am seeing quite allot of flicker on interiors with flouresant lighting.
This seems to be because of the camera(s) on a 120 60htz power cycle vs the lighting at 220 50 | | | | |
| | | | Re: SONY HVR-V1U - WHAT TAPES TO USE? thank you! by Jessie Smith on Jul 28, 2009 at 1:51:03 pm in the Sony DV Forum Hi Chris, thank you for your reply! This makes a lot of sense. What do you think about using Panasonic tapes? I am using a panasonic camcorder to capture tapes and one of my larger projects is shot on panasonic camera/tapes. If I start screening Sony | | | | |
| | | | HD Cameras by Edward Neary on Jul 28, 2009 at 1:30:51 pm in the Event Videographers Forum I own a sony pd 170 and am very happy with it, however, I know that HD is the way to go. Trying to find an HD camera that allows me to shoot HD/SD as well as 16X9 & 4X3. The biggest thing for me is a camera that allows me to shoot in low light with | | | | |
| | | | Re: Systems and Solutions? Just say no. by Erich Roland on Jul 27, 2009 at 12:56:29 pm in the Panasonic VariCam Forum Mark, It would certainly be interesting to engage in these conversations with Panasonic designers or market strategist, but I suspect that won’t happen.
It seems a large portion of what that game is about is indeed “market strategy”. There is a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Reading P2 in Linux by Nathan Fain on Jul 27, 2009 at 10:16:48 am in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum I've extracted the RomFS images and detailed how to do. I've also dissected much of the firmware looking for low-hanging fruit / targets ripe for reverse engineering. I've detailed it here:
http://deadhacker.com/2009/07/26/targeting-the-panasonic- | | | | |
| | | | Re: Higher quality video without AVCHD by John Rofrano on Jul 23, 2009 at 11:03:13 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Just to expand a bit on what Steve said and answer some of your questions directly:
> I have heard that some/possibly many HD camera's can output there files from the camera in formats other than AVCHD
Yes the two major industry standard format | | | | |
| | | | Higher quality video without AVCHD by Paul Gregory on Jul 23, 2009 at 5:01:24 am in the Sony Vegas Forum I would love to move up to making my videos' in HD but I continue to hear lots of stories about the difficulty of editing AVCHD. I assume that editing AVCHD will eventually become more user friendly. In the meantime I'm not shooting in HD. I was | | | | |
| | | | Re: Systems and Solutions? Just say no. by Erich Roland on Jul 23, 2009 at 2:35:19 am in the Panasonic VariCam Forum John, That's exactly what I've been thinking would make mountains of sense to the consumer and therefore sales. These companies would have to give up the notion of capturing the customer into they're lair. Both Sony and Panasonic seem to gravitate to | | | | |
| | | | Re: Systems and Solutions? Just say no. by Erich Roland on Jul 22, 2009 at 9:54:46 pm in the Panasonic VariCam Forum John and Chris, You guys are all spot on with the problem and possible solutions. We have perfectly good and capable cameras, that will potentially be worth very little next year when the next codec or storage devise comes out, and that's not going t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best Mac for the Job by Janice Gowan on Jul 22, 2009 at 3:25:15 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I do all my video work in AE. Lots of 3d layers and effects.My composites are 1920x1080. I not sure I'm working in the correct format. I want to produce a 3min video for hdtv.(in my composites are videos from my hd camera) When I do a ram preview it | | | | |
| | | | Log and capture issues with Canon Vixia HV30? by Tim Biancalana on Jul 21, 2009 at 5:00:03 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I am running FCP 6 on a G5 (dual core) and I am running FCP 5 on a MacBook Pro.
I recently bought a prosumer HD camera - a Canon Vixia HV30.
It will not allow me to log & Capture on either computer via Firewire connection. What's very odd is tha | | | | |
| | | | Re: Blu Ray Menus by Joe Willis on Jul 20, 2009 at 8:26:18 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Thanks for the info. Man, software companies are just so.......sneaky.
I mean this happens all the time. "Hey buy this and you can do all of this and that" only to find, "But if you want to do this...You MUST upgrade". The box tells you it works | | | | |
| | | | Need Flip Video Clip by Dennis Dean on Jul 20, 2009 at 10:34:03 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Does anyone have or know the whereabouts of a Flip HD video clip that could be downloaded? I've a client that may want to use a Flip HD camera while traveling and I'd like to see how the video responds in the FCP timeline, so I need whatever the came | | | | |
| | | | Who's buying the 3700 Varicam? by Lee Dashiell on Jul 19, 2009 at 12:16:48 pm in the Panasonic VariCam Forum I have just placed my order for the 3700 and I'm curious who is falling in as well? I truly believe that the P2 format will outweigh the XDcam for higher end HD broadcast production and this $30,000 incentive is about as good as it gets. 10 years ag | | | | |
| | | | Re: Canon XLH1 + Accessories! by Wil Klassen on Jul 17, 2009 at 9:05:39 pm in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum Gary,
Mark again... ;)
Regarding your other questions...
The lens is perfect. No scratches or nicks on either front or rear elements. We had a UV filter on the front at all times.
We are selling the camera because we bought a Red and a | | | | |
| | | | sd 302 to HD video cameras and tascam hdp2 by Michael Clardy on Jul 17, 2009 at 8:24:54 am in the Audio Professionals Forum I have an independent feature coming up soon, and I am in charge of the sound! I recently made a very exciting purchase, and I chose to go with a Sound Devices 302 (XLR out) to Sony EX1 HD camera(L+R), and SD 302 (tape out L+R) to Tascam HDP2 (rca in | | | | |
| | | | Re: NTSC or PAL? by David Issko on Jul 16, 2009 at 9:13:10 pm in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum You can only shoot in HD with the EX cameras, so you have the selection capability to select from 60i (30p and associated rates) NTSC 'area' such as USA, Canada etc or the 50i (25p rate) PAL 'area' such as Europe, Australia and other parts of the wor | | | | |
| | | | Re: Re:High Speed camera recommendations by gary adcock on Jul 15, 2009 at 12:40:24 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Arjun Rao] "Apart from the Phantom HD camera, are there any other high speed cameras "
Photosonics (film)
NAC
Weisscam
RED (120fps)
A large number of film cameras can do 120fps without modification
gary adcock
Studio37
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| | | | Panasonic VariCam | Leo Ticheli discusses the HD VariCam from Panasonic
Panasonic's VariCam HD camera is one of the most popular HD units in use today, being used in major and independent films, commercials, corporate and music videos and many other projects. In this article, Creative Cow's Leo Ticheli discusses how the VariCam is used at his company, Leo Ticheli Productions (LTP). LTP bought VariCam back in 2001 and today uses the VariCam in projects that are developed at the two company offices located in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia.Leo Ticheli, (host of Creative Cow's VariCam forum), discusses his purchase reasons, the image quality, the posting process and some of the projects that the VariCam has been used on. He gives his assessment of the camera, as well as the VariCam's aptness for a broad range of assignments. Review, People / Interview Author: Leo Ticheli |
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| | | | Creative COW Magazine feedback | The Truth About 2K, 4K and The Future of Pixels
John Galt, Panavision Senior Vice President of Advanced Digital Imaging, led the team that created the Genesis camera, was responsible for the F900 Star Wars camera, and continues to play a leading role in guiding future digital cinema technologies. In this Creative Cow Magazine Extra, join us for a wide-ranging conversation, as John cuts through what he calls the intentional obfuscation of marketing pixels, and considers the range of options that are becoming available to digital filmmakers. Feature Author: John Galt |
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