76 pure frames of DVCPRO HD 1080i

[hcBeck]

This isn't demo footage. It's a technical sample of what the PAL camera produces.

I simply pointed by PAL HVX200 out of my window into the street in the middle of the night. I was doing this to work out the PAL workflow into my 1.25GHz Powerbook.

As these two shots are the 5th and 6th shots I took using this camera, all settings are factory defaults.

The Scene File was Cine V.

I left autofocus on.

Right-click to download:

38_frames_of_25i_DVPRO_HD_on_1080i50.mov.zip - 16.8MB

and

38_frames_of_25p_DVPRO_HD_on_1080i50.mov.zip - 17.9MB


Alex

[SPZ]

This isn't demo footage. It's a technical sample of what the PAL camera produces.

I simply pointed by PAL HVX200 out of my window into the street in the middle of the night. I was doing this to work out the PAL workflow into my 1.25GHz Powerbook.

As these two shots are the 5th and 6th shots I took using this camera, all settings are factory defaults.

The Scene File was Cine V.

I left autofocus on.

Right-click to download:

38_frames_of_25i_DVPRO_HD_on_1080i50.mov.zip - 16.8MB

and

38_frames_of_25p_DVPRO_HD_on_1080i50.mov.zip - 17.9MB


Alex

WOOOHOOO!!! A big hand to hcbeck! The first person to post HVX PAL footage on the net! Hurray!! Tell him what he's won, Ray!

[SPZ]

HcBeck, the file seems corrupted... I see half the frame in green, and another half clean...

EDIT- This was my problem. i tried to view the footage on Final Cut 4.5, and since it only has 1080 50i it got funny. In my desktop FCP 5 setup everything works fine.

[hcBeck]

A warning - this is just a shot of a car going by on some wet tarmac.

It turned out to be quite a good noise test.

Here are some compressed versions:

38_frames_of_25p_DVPRO_HD_scaled_to_720p_h264.mov - 1.6MB

38_frames_of_25p_DVPRO_HD_scaled_to_960_by_540.mp4 - 400K


And two stills from the 25p version:

1080p_sample_frame_1_quality12.jpg

1080p_sample_frame_2_quality12.jpg

[SPZ]

hcBeck, can you tell me your camera settings, please? like gain? This was not white balanced, right? What color temperature where you on?

[hcBeck]

Sorry, I had the camera on Auto.

That means Auto Gain Control, Auto White Balance. The other switches were set to Gain - L, White Bal - B.

So, as it was in the middle of the night, the gain was probably at max. I was shooting with the camera outside the windowsill from a darkened room, so that might give you a hint as to the colour temperature.

I haven't gone through the manual much yet, I'll be able to upload better footage tomorrow - i.e. with some sort of control next time!

[Jacob Nielsen]

Hi Alex,

Just curious about the workflow - were those clips streamed directly via firewire into powerbook or with P2?

I'm anxious to know since we are going to use a direct firewire to Mac capture for greenscreening - heard about anoter guy having trouble with it...

Jacob.

[hcBeck]

I mounted the P2 card onto my Powerbook and used Import... P2.

It seems that the FCP installer doesn't usually install DVCPROHD software on lowly computers like my 12" Powerbook 1.25GHz. I've had to move the Quicktime DVCPROHD codec and digitizer from a G5 install.

The Powerbook can see the HVX as a firewire device when I attempt log and capture. It can control the P2 card as a deck, but the content doesn't appear in the capture window when capturing.

So as the P2 import only works with 1080i50 content (25p and 25i), hi-res 50P will have to wait for an update from Apple or Panasonic. I'll have to dub to DV...

I'm off out to film on a dull spring day in London...

[xray]

WOOOHOOO!!! A big hand to hcbeck! The first person to post HVX PAL footage on the net! Hurray!! Tell him what he's won, Ray!

Congratulations!! mr Alex! You won! (big applause) The greatest, (shouting public) theee biggest (screaming girls) Euro 2006 award!!