What if U had only 3 days with the DVX100? Help!

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eladbari

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Hey guys!
im getting the DVX100 for the first time from my school to shoot a lil' project.
Problem is-im getting it for 3 days only! :undecided
first 2 days-i will experiment with the camera...last day well shoot.
Ive been watching DVX100+24p material and i REALLY wanna achieve good results, but i still know its hard cause of the short amount of time.

Therefore i am posting this to ask for basic tips from you. Tips about shooting in Progressive mode [im using pal-25p..but i guess its the same like 24p apart from post production].
i dont really know where to start with my questions.but i will. but before that-i will appreciate it if you could contribute from your experience and give me general tips and/or links to tutorials\video tutorials...it could be so great!! :]

1.If im switching to progressive mode, what are the other parameters i need to adjust while shooting to get the perfect picture [that wont be too dark\choppy]? [i dunno..shutter speed? white balace?..]

2.were gonna shoot in the early morning....when light will break...will it be a problem? low light+25p mode? ...

3.[to whoever is familiar with pal]-while editing...what settings should i change in the project in order for the 25p to "work" \ "be shown"?


thats for now...its hard for me to know what to ask about but i hope i will have more of a sense after my 1st day of experimenting and then ill come back here.

THANK U SO MUCH! :cheesy:
 
Hey, eladbari --

I'm not trying to scold you here, seriously -- you're an enthusiastic newbie and we all were once --

But these kinds of questions are exactly why this board exists and they've been covered, in-depth, hundreds of times throughout its pages.

All of these questions are answered in many, many threads all over the board . . . do a search. "Exposure." "White balance." "Focus." "25p timeline."

If you take some time to go through the vast wealth of information which is already here, I'm sure you'll find exactly what you're looking for.

Good luck.
 
Hey David!
thanx for replying....i understand what u say...and i know im asking things that mightve been asked, and maybe asking for an "out of the box" solution from u [which is kinda impossible]....
but im in kind of a time limit here...searching and filtering whatever i need takes days if not hours....which i dont have...
what pisses me off more is the hassle and trouble finding the info i want in one place...one tutorial... its all scattered around....kinda like underground topic...i dont get it? or maybe my google skills arent as good?
thats why i opened this topic... so people can maybe help me with the short amount of time i have ......and even pasting a useful link in here can help so much.
dont get me wrong...i have been searching...and i will keep searching keywords in this great forum [problem is...maybe i dunno what to search for].

thank u!
 
The F5 scene file (as it is pre-set by Panasonic) delivers a really nice film look. If you don't have a lot of time and experience I'd recommend you use that. In this scene file everything is set, shutter 1/50, 25p, cine-gamma, f-stop -2, and so on. You don't need to worry about the settings and the look is really nice - you'd need at least a month with the camera to create such a well-balanced look on your own.

White balance depends on what you're shooting and how, and the look you want. I like wb in the shade so the sun looks warmer, but you might as well wb in the sun and get cool shades. If your shots aren't chronologic then you need to wb every 20 minutes when the lights are changing. If you're doing a chronologic documentary kind of thing you might as well use daylight preset so that the viewer can actually see the light change.
I am a fan of keeping the same white balance as long as possible, a neutral wb for each and every shot can be the most boring thing.
You can't white balance film, there's either daylight or tungsten and there's correction filters (but you don't use these for every 100K change). So I think not white balancing each and every shot can add to a more realistic film look.
 
thanx for the tips FBAS!
so u say, just to keep it on F5 and not getting into the manual? ...i got it..
i understand and know that my request is pretty blunt and that i cannot get great results after a few days with the camera...

when i talk bout -film look-im aiming for the "motion" and "feel" of the video... less bout the color and all [although its really important..especially as we film in early morning].....
all i wanna achieve for now is a good choppiness look of a 25p shooting...
i am aiming for a "motion" like this:

http://digitaliconstudios.com/screening_room/index.php?vid=45

http://digitaliconstudios.com/screening_room/index.php?vid=46

ive seen projects that used 25\24p but it wasnt as choppy so i fugured maybe it really was on auto mode and thats y. basically i wanna get that "motion". not too choppy...not too smooth.
i just dunno what parameters are "linked" to determine that choppiness, so i could take care of em and change em to suit that look i wanna achieve..
 
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