XHA1 NY Clip

Elton

Elton

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One shot with a few simple cc's in FCP just to show different looks. All handheld in 24F mode with OIS engaged.

150 MB h.264 (2 min.) http://www.realm.cc/upload/Elton/FacesInTheCrowd.mov
XHA1-TimesSquarePic.jpg

Yuppie.jpg
 
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Is that stock lens or M2? 24F? Can you give a quick rundown of the settings it was shot with? I liked your CC, it improved everything dramatically.
 
Stock lens. Intentionally shot a bit flat for post.

-- Cinegamma 2
-- -3 db
-- Sharpness -3
-- Knee Low

Pretty much everything else neutral. Telephoto about 75% (wide on the Times Square shot)
 
Elton said:
Stock lens. Intentionally shot a bit flat for post.

-- Cinegamma 2
-- -3 db
-- Sharpness -3
-- Knee Low

Pretty much everything else neutral. Telephoto about 75% (wide on the night Times Square shot)
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What do you mean by telephoto 75% (sorry, I know that sounds stupid)? You were toward the end of the focal length?
 
Hey Elton, what are you using to capture? I mean, what's your work flow? Are you using the camera to capture? FCP or Vegas?
 
Thanks Elton, I was very happy when that clip opened up and it was huge. It's been hard to judge the footage by viewing small clips. This has been the first footage that has me really thinking about purchasing this cam. I will now watch it for the tenth time.

Being a PC user I'm just waiting to see how the editing situation pans out and if Premiere will support 24f output to tape. Thanks again.

-Kevin
 
Are you capturing by using the camera as your deck? That's the last thing I'm concerned about before I just plop down money and buy one of these things. I really don't want to wear out the heads by capturing from the camera but I assume you can't capture 24F footage from these tapes from any ole DV deck.
 
yes, from the camera. I'll be testing a Firestore C soon, so I'll let you know if you even need to worry about tape capture at all. :)

If it's a big concern, get the HV10 and use it as a playback deck. (and use it on vacations too ;)
 
Hey Sack,

It looks sharp in 1080 too--I simply wanted to post a longer clip with some minor cc's just to give a feel for the image flexibility and motion rendition.

Makes a pretty good 720p camera too, I reckon. :)
 
Elton said:
yes, from the camera. I'll be testing a Firestore C soon, so I'll let you know if you even need to worry about tape capture at all. :)

If it's a big concern, get the HV10 and use it as a playback deck. (and use it on vacations too ;)
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Yeah, those Firestores are incredibly expensive though ($2000 aren't they?), and part of the attraction with the A1 has been its "63 minutes for $10" feature.

Although, I have to say, that HV10 looks like a wicked b-role / vacation camera!
 
A few observations:

1. I love it when in full telephoto, there is such a small area in the foreground and the background where the walkers are in focus. Also, OIS perfection. Imagine this camera while using a fig-rig or something.
2. Nightime shots are awesome - less/no vertical smear on headlights.
3. The camera felt/looked solid, well built. I actually handled the little beauty @ Barlow's house.
4. An XLH1 in a DVX-form factor and even more crazy--very close to a DVX-price. How can you beat that? It's a no brainer.
5. This is my 2nd favorite camera of all time (Barlow knows my favorite) - ha ha.
6. "Film-like" is not even a term worth mentioning these days.

I want one!!!!
 
wow. an amazing clip that shows what kind of CC these clips can handle without breaking down.. very very nice. thanx for sharing and thanks for hyping me up for my A1 :D
 
5. This is my 2nd favorite camera of all time (Barlow knows my favorite) - ha ha
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What's your first George?

Elton, what kind of render times are you getting with the HD footage?
(Credit card comes out of wallet)

-Kevin
 
Downloading now. That crowd shot looks beautiful. Good enough to use in a serious piece (just based on the still), mice facial exposure on the guy on the right and luckily some natural light in the rear thats acting as nice kicker. With all the people behind theres some nice texture.

Kevin, as I say just about everytime I have posted new stuff, if you want a HUGE m2t for any part of it just let me know. Its just doing clips the way Elston has for a lot of clips, well thats a lot of bandwidth. Looking at my webstats to two days ago 500 people downloaded Ginza night scene - now if the file was 200mb well thats getting pretty high on one clip alone.
 
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Elton, what kind of render times are you getting with the HD footage?
(Credit card comes out of wallet)

-Kevin
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I'll have to get back to you on that because my workflow doesn't really involve rendering out a final HDV product. (although I can do this without any trouble)

Essentially, I get realtime transitions and color correction while editing in an HDV sequence. (the latter I believe is due to the Kona card. It does accelerate HDV to some degree)

When I'm happy with my edit, I copy/paste the sequence into a Sheer codec 1080 timeline (basically uncompressed quality) and do final renders. The advantage of this method is that it avoids an extra generation of compression before encoding for delivery. (h.264)

Basically, with HDV I get realtime editing and a minimal render time when I output back to tape. Render times always depend on how much the footage has been manipulated. In this case it took about 2-2.5x realtime for a finished render ready for output to tape.

Rendering to the Sheer codec was actually much faster.
 
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