Test footage available of HPX-3000 and Sony EX-1 on our FTP site

[joeinc]

I've been following posts for the past few months about the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 P2 HD camera. We had the good fortune this past week of having our Panasonic regional reps bring the camera to us for evaluation purposes. I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to test the camera under different shooting conditions, but we did get to shoot in our studio and edit some test footage. I'd like to share this footage with everybody, so it's available for download on our FTP site:

ftp://209.12.198.170/

To log in to our FTP site, the user name is hpx3000, password is hpx3000.

I also was able to test the new Sony PMW-EX1 XDCAM EX camera the day after the Panasonic reps were here in Memphis. We shot similar footage to what we captured from the HPX3000, for comparison purposes.

With both cameras, which are native 1920x1080 HD, we shot some footage at 1080 24p, and some at 1080 60i. The Panasonic camera only shoots at 1080, while the Sony will also shoot at 720, in addition to 1080. We didn't have time to shoot anything at 720, though, on the EX-1.

If you log in to our FTP site using the instructions above, you'll see a single folder called hpx3000. Inside it, there are two subfolders: hpx3000clips, and ex1clips.

We used FCP 6.0.2 to edit all the test footage, and Compressor's H.264 settings to make the MOV files. We kept them at the cameras' full 1920x1080 resolution, so they are somewhat large, ranging from 3.4 MB (for one of the brief close-up shots) to 304 MB (for one of several narratives I did on-camera).

I had a lav mic on my narratives for the HPX3000, but we used the on-board camera mic on the EX-1, due to time constraints.

If you download some of the clips for evaluation, please post your feedback, as I would greatly appreciate opinions on these two cameras. You're also welcome to send me an e-mail with your thoughts, to joeinc@memphismediasource.com.

Thanks for all the great information that has been shared here, and happy holidays!

Joe Incardona
President
Media Source
Memphis, TN
Corporate/Broadcast Production
www.memphismediasource.com

[Stevet]

Has anyone had any luck downloading these files?
It's downloading less the 2KB/s .
It would take half a day to download a small file.

[William_Robinette]

I was getting similar speeds and I didn't have the patience.

[jcoxshooter]

tried 3 times never could get to download complete

[Andrew McCarrick]

I've been using an FTP client (CuteFTP) for the past day and I just got the last file downloaded this morning. That could be one reason why yours were so slow, because I was downling all the files at the same time. Give it a try now, it should be a little faster. The 3.36MB file only took me 10 minutes. (I am on a cable connection though.). I got between 4kbps and 1.95 mbps transfer rates.

[joeinc]

Sorry for the difficulties some of you are having in trying to download these files. Due to the overwhelming response, our FTP server is taking a huge hit from so many people trying to download these files simultaneously.
I've tracked IP addresses from as far away as India, Australia, and China in the past 24 hours.
We're on Central US time here, it's currently 2:30 PM. My guess would be there would be fewer people trying to access our FTP site tonight, since it's Christmas Eve.
If the huge hit in our bandwidth continues, I might have to switch the files over to our Web host, or ask Panasonic to see if they can figure out a place to host the files.
So far, since about 1 PM Central yesterday, there have been at least 150 logins to our FTP site and attempts to download files.
I could also change them into streaming files, and move them to our streaming host provider, but I really wanted them to be high-quality, full-resolution files so people could import them into an NLE and try editing with them.
We appreciate your patience!

Joe Incardona
President
Media Source
Memphis, TN
www.memphismediasource.com (http://www.memphismediasource.com)
:dankk2:

[Andrew McCarrick]

If you want I have webspace and FTP space.... since I downloaded them, I can get them up on my space; if you would like.

[ProfessorU]

Sounds like we should put up a torrent next time instead. That's what bittorrent was designed for.
I'll check back next week. :)

[joeinc]

OK, I now have an alternate way for people to download the clips:

Use this link
<http://65.38.4.136?AffiliateId=Media+Source&Location=>

In the "Enter Your ID and Password" area, enter hpx3000 as ID, hpx3000 as password.

The files are listed individually.

This is a much more robust FTP server maintained by News Data Services, for which we are the Memphis broadcast monitoring affiliate.

There is a link on the download page to see instructions.

Thanks for your patience, and merry Christmas!

Joe Incardona
President
Media Source
Memphis, TN USA
www.memphismediasource.com

[J P]

"No files are available for download."

Have the files been taken down?