Just ordered the HMC152EN

[edy4eva]

Hi everyone,
Today, after much thought and research I ordered the cam (which should arrive tomorrow morning). I can't wait for it. Thanks for everyone on the wealth of knowledge and experience that lead me to making this decision.

My first shooting (ever) will be an event at a local hotel this week. I am so excited!

I've also got Litepanels Micro, RTG-2 mike, and a Vbg6 battery, in addition to the 2x 16GB sdhc that come with the cam (Panasonic Aus has a promotion at the moment).

[Thomas Lew]

I would recommend for your first shoot (ever) to do some test footage before the event incase u do something weird w/ the camera by accident and the event footage is lost!

congrats though! enjoy teh cam. i certainly do

[Evro]

All I can tell you is don't shoot 720 50P unless you know for sure your NLE can work fully with it, otherwise you'll be looking to transcode the footage and it won't be pretty.

[edy4eva]

Most likely it'll be 720 25p, thanks for the tip Evro
What production software do you use/recommend btw?

[Evro]

I've been using Vegas for the last 4 years and I totally love it, but it does not like the 720 50P files which either causes the system to crash or do the infamous jitter dance in my final render. I have a mate who runs Edius and we've had no problems working with the AVCHD 50P files on his platform. Dag nabit it! I wish I knew how to use Edius

PS: It was so nice for Panasonic Australia to give us those 2 free SDHC 16GB cards - I got two HMC so I eneded up with 4 cards... ooh wee!!

[notoriousruz]

Congrats mate!

My Panasonic dealer in Oz told me they were sold out till the new year, the next shipment wouldnt be in till Jan 3rd.

You clearly didnt have this problem. I am clearly very jealous.

[Evro]

That's right, Stefan at DVT told me the same thing and I had to order two straight away... Are you in NSW? You must have been very lucky!

[edy4eva]

Yeah, I had to call around; only found 2 places that had them, and each had 1 as demo. Lemac had it unopened without the SD cards, and John Barry had it opened but with SD cards. I ended up going with the latter.

[Justyn]

Congrats on the cam. Before you shoot. I'd do some tests to see what scene file you like.. and how you want to set-up the parameters.. they can make a huge difference in how the footage looks. Also familiarize yourself with the focus and focus assist as those can throw you at first.. Enjoy!

[some1shero]

Congrats on the camera! You'll love that this camera is SDHC! I agree with EVERYONE's suggestion that you should do some test shots first. It'll save you a lot of headache. Once you get a solid workflow going, it's very fast.

Because it's recording onto a SDHC card, I shoot everyday and I never have to worry about tape. Take great footage and load them for us to see!