HC1 Stills

[ChuckS]

I purchased an HC1 last night and went to the airport and shot a coupld of different scenes. After downloading the HDV upgrade for PPro 1.5.1 I plugged the camera in and digitized the footage the same way you normally do DV worked great. However, when I placed a clip in the timeline it didn't play correctly in the record monitor. It played and looked great in the preview monitor but once I placed the clip in the timeline it did not scale correctly. I suspect that that something in PPro is not configured correctly - it appears not to be scaling the 1440 to 1920. So I capured some stills to check the output. These are from the Sony HC1 in HDV full auto. I just put a tape in and pushed record.



These were some pretty harsh conditions - a very sunny day with lots of shadows. The footage coming out of the camera looks really good (the liitle I have seen). As soon as I figure out what I'm doing wrong in PPro I'll post some footage.

Has anyone using PPro with HDV upgraded to the full version of Cineform? If so is there any difference in image quality?

[ChuckS]

I'm not sure why the images won't post, I have the following with the correct brackets around IMG of coarse -

IMG http://www.daframegallery/CMA2005-2.jpg[/IMG]

Can anyone fix this?

[David Jimerson]

There's nothing at that link.

[ChuckS]

Works fine for me

Thanks for the help I figured it out

[Anhar Miah]

see, thats one of the things that I really like about Sony's EIP engine, it handles the sky nicely in full sunlight without blowing out, makes it look like its got film like latitude, you have to remember that the HC1 does not have ANY ND filtes !!

[PANA-MAN]

Beautiful pix. That Sony is producing some hella clean images.

[Zack Birlew]

The HC1 is nice on full auto, but it needs to be configured right to look great. Nice stills!

[Angrius]

what the hell is the point of buying hd cams right now when the editing hardware costs so much...what are you using to edit this with...how slow is it?

[harlan]

Gawd...I hope those artifacts are coming from the jpg compression on the images, otherwise they're noisy something awful.

The shots and all look good, mate, I'm not criticizing; I'm just saying that I hope the output of that camera isn't that noisy.

[harlan]

what the hell is the point of buying hd cams right now when the editing hardware costs so much...what are you using to edit this with...how slow is it?

I assume that by saying "hd cams" you're referring to the HDV cameras? If so, editing the HDV footage certainly isn't that expensive; you can edit HDV on a $500ish MacMini. It's not the most practical method, but it'll definitely get the job done.

HD on the other hand, is an entirely different beast, and it does require a hefty system to edit. For HD material, I actually use a G5 Twin 2.5 with a Decklink HD card, and a boatload of Hard Disks.