Advice on shoot with Sony HVR-Z7P - just purchased


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Advice on shoot with Sony HVR-Z7P - just purchased
by Ollie Parke on Nov 11, 2008 at 10:46:25 pm

Hi,

My video production company just purchased a HVR-Z7P which shoots HDV 1080i (a format I have shot in successfully before with a different camcorder). That will shoot in PAL 50 interlaced. This model also has a progressive 25P option. I am shooting an exercise video in a few days and I'm weighing up my options of the best way to shoot.When quickly experimenting 25p is jerky but perhaps this is because my shutter speed needs to be set to 25 instead of the 50 I use for interlaced?

I will be shooting in HDV and down-converting from the camera to Adobe Premiere Pro to edit in SD and release it exclusively as a DVD. No blu-ray is planned - its just good to shoot HDV for future proof I guess - and possibly the down-converted version is marginally better than shooting straight DVCAM (any one know?)

What I would like to know is what are the advantages of shooting 25p or should I just stick with 50i as this is not a artisitic film look that we are after? Would end result quality of the DVD be any different once its down-converted, converted to NTSC in DVfilm Atlantis and authored as an NTSC DVD for the international market? Yeah, all these formats make life so easy right!

Also anyone who knows this model of camera - can it shoot HDV to tape and SD to the CF card at the same time and visa versa? I know that's a lot of info I'm after but any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Ollie

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Re: Advice on shoot with Sony HVR-Z7P - just purchased
by Robert Bec on Nov 14, 2008 at 1:49:02 am

I personally would shoot 50i for what you are doing.

Always use this camera in manual it's not made to be an auto camera.

You cant shoot SD to tape and HD to card but you can do it the other way just experiment with it.

Rob

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Re: Advice on shoot with Sony HVR-Z7P - just purchased
by Ollie Parke on Nov 14, 2008 at 2:11:07 am

Thanks for the advice. That is what I will be doing especially after experimenting some more. Definitely all manual. Brilliant camera. Do you know is down converting footage from tape shot in HDV to SD in my editing program will result in better footage than the DVCAM AVI that I will be recording to CF card while shooting this? Is there any loss in quality when Premiere converts TYPE 1 AVI from the CF card to TYPE 2 for editing?

Cheers

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Re: Advice on shoot with Sony HVR-Z7P - just purchased
by Charlie Steiner on Nov 16, 2008 at 2:44:56 pm

the key to your various questions is that seeing is believing.if progressive looks weird to you then it's weird. I doubt that premiere will change the quality when ingesting avi's but just do a test with 10 seconds of video and see for yourself. I'm in the NTSC world but love the Z7. it has some quirks but once you get used to it the seeing makes you a believer.
- charlie

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