Sell my dvx and buy XH A1??

To the starter of this thread: I'd take the time out to compare and research for myself. 3500 or 5K+?

Do you need 4:2:2 Color? And for what reason? Can you afford p2? If so, can you afford an A1 and a Firestore solution?

You just have to research and find out which is better.
 
I'm in the same boat right now, and while I considered for about 5 seconds selling my DVX, i've decided to just add the A1 to my arsenal. I get so many calls right now requesting the DVX, why on earth would I sell it. This thing pays for itself over and over practially every month. On the other end of the story I have lost out on a few jobs becasue I didn't "own" my own HD camcorder. I have done plenty of HD shoots, but there are always people out there that prefere that you own your own equipment. So while I am constantly making money with my DVX I'll have the A1 to start paying for itself as well.

As to the A1 vs the HVX. Well I've done a few shoots with the HVX (actually have a music video in January that we'll be shooting with 2 HVX's) but I prefere using the HVX as a rental camera only. I don't want to invest in P2 cards, you really need to have an AC that can do your loading/ Downloading of the cards whenever you shoot. As far as picture quality I would say the A1 is right up there with the HVX, if not surpassing it a bit when it comes to resolution. When it comes to all the 4:2:2 verses 4:2:0, while I love the flexibility of the 4:2:2 color space I rarely find the need to correct my image farther than a 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 space will start to break down. If you can make DV footage look good, you can make HDV footage look good.
Granted I was as much a skeptic and hater of HDV when it first arrived as the rest of you, but after working with the medium and seeing the great results that follow, it just makes sense to like this camera (A1). I truely feel it is the next DVX.
 
Only issue people are having is that there isn't enough footage out from the camera yet. It's all hear-say until you either pick up the camera and use it or until someone knocks out some good narrative footage with it.

Give it til early next year.
 
My biggest qualm with HDV was the interlaced recording format. I hate interlaced in sd and I assumed it would be similar in HDV. A while ago my opinion changed when I watched some HDV on a 42" Plasma and wow it looks good. I really didn't even notice the interlaced lines.

The xha1 looks like an amazing camera. 20x zoom...nice. This will be my next camera.
 
t-unit said:
So people, should i sell my dvx and buy a xh a1?
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To each his own, but I look at it this way: (frame grab from XH-A1)

DV SD 4x3 Letterboxed :
SydneySD4x3LB.jpg


16x9 Anamorphic SD :
SydneySD16x9.jpg

720p HD:
Sydney720.jpg


1080p/f HD:
SydneyXHA1-24F.jpg


I like the big frame :)
 
>=\ Everytime I see footage from this camera I get angry at how clean it is. Even the stills look great.
 
LOL!!!!!

Brandon could of decided the other way around by deciding the HVX was the right cam for him or that he made up his mind to stick with his DVX.....


Join the force Brandon! hehe j/k dude
 
thanx for all the answers, it looks like i will be buying this camera soon. But im not sure i'll sell my dvx anyway. But how is the 25f against 25p?
 
Can't answer that from a PAL perspective but the difference between 24p and 24f to my eye is zero. They look identical.
 
Brandon,

You can view the clips with Windows Media Player, but I'm not sure what NLE you can use to "play" with the footage.
 
I don't think you can edit native 24F in Avid Xpress just yet. You'd have to have a different codec. I use Final Cut to bother with the pretty .m2t's, though. If you want to open them, download VLC player from www.videolan.org -- New version is out!!
 
Elton said:
Here's a quick clip from the shoot with the A1: http://www.realm.cc/upload/Elton/YourMove.m2t
(25 MB m2t)
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CLEAAANNNNNN. Mmmmm jummy.

I'm not sure how you'd get 24F into Avid, honestly. Vegas and Final Cut are the only ones I know of that handle Canon 24F right now. You'd have to check the Avid site or do some searches on XL-H1 and Avid xPress. More than likely it'll be converting to DVCproHD and then editing in Avid.

Avid takes soooo long to import a clip. It'll be great when Premiere and Vegas support MXF and such natively.
 
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