DVX100 footage problem HV30

[jejeson]

Hey,

we recently recorded some footage using a rented DVX100 in widescreen mode and chose to use our HV30 as our deck to capture the footage. problem is the frame size of the widescreen DVX100 appears small on our HV30, like its letter boxed or something? my fear is resizing this footage to match our HD footage from the HV30, as i don't want to create problems with the pixels. Is there something am not doing right? I thought that the footage should appear widescreen in our HV30 since it was recorded widescreen. please help.....

[jejeson]

60 views and no one has experienced this problem?

[jaket]

Hey,

we recently recorded some footage using a rented DVX100 in widescreen mode and chose to use our HV30 as our deck to capture the footage. problem is the frame size of the widescreen DVX100 appears small on our HV30, like its letter boxed or something? my fear is resizing this footage to match our HD footage from the HV30, as i don't want to create problems with the pixels. Is there something am not doing right? I thought that the footage should appear widescreen in our HV30 since it was recorded widescreen. please help.....

It sounds like you shot in the letterbox widescreen mode. The dvx100 only had a letterbox mode and then they implemented the anamorphic widescreen mode in the Dvx100a and DVX100b. the way your describing the playback being letterbox tells me you shot letterbox not anamorphic or as the panasonic menu system calls it "squeeze", I think.

Good luck

[bmoede]

Yes, the original DVX100 did not have wide screen, just a letterbox overlay. I still shoot with and am still making money my original DVX100. I purchased the anamorphic lens adapter to shoot true 16x9. Even on the A and B models, the anamorphic adapter looks a lot better than the electronic squeeze mode.

I had some older footage I had shot in the letterbox mode that a client wanted in true 16x9. So, it took a little work, but I up-converted the footage to 720p HD using Apple compressor, brought that footage in a 16x9 timeline and just "zoomed in" until the black bars were out of the frame. Looks pretty good. Just zooming in on the original SD footage did not look as nice and I know from test clips that the DVX100 footage looks quite good up converted to HD.