Are you guys gonna miss the tape drive in the HPX170?

And by the time the HPX170 is out, I bet the 32GB cards will be available too (or very shortly thereafter). With two 32GB cards you should be able to record over five hours of DV in-camera with no swapping.

BG,

I'll make you a deal right now on a couple 32 gig cards :):)
 
We use the HVX200 's as B-C cams and never used tape on them. Funny enough, last month an occasion came up where we needed to shoot tape with it as the client wanted 2 varicams and a throw away hvx200, all on tape.

We looked like ben stiller and owen wilson from zoolander trying to use a MAC.
 
ChipG said:
And by the time the HPX170 is out, I bet the 32GB cards will be available too (or very shortly thereafter). With two 32GB cards you should be able to record over five hours of DV in-camera with no swapping.

BG,

I'll make you a deal right now on a couple 32 gig cards :):)
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I don't know whether you're joking about this and/or the tape drive question, but yes, the HVX has a mini-DV tape drive, tapes are available for a few bucks everywhere including gas station convenience stores, and the 32GB P2 cards have been out for a while now:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/521544-REG/Panasonic_AJ_P2C032RG_AJ_P2C032RG_32GB_P2_High.html
 
P2 since 2006 and never looked back. We'll be selling our HVX200 for a HPX170 here in the weeks to come.

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whats the major advantages to upgrading to the hpx170 besides it being lighter?

it would be nice to have a lighter hd cam. if the hpx170 includes a 16gb or a 32gb then i'm sold, especially since i have a 16gb p2 and a coupla 4gb's.
 
no, taped worked for me before P2, but since using P2 it's impossible for me to go back to tape,

I had a situation a couple of weeks ago where I quickly went to shoot something for our church, and I forgot my P2 cards, there was a tape in the camera bag, and not wanting to drive all the way back, I used the tape.

I'm almost still a little angry with myself for not taking the P2 cards, it was such a pain working with tape again, shooting and especially post.

- Derrick
 
Alright, stop bragging about all your tapeless workflow you elitists. Like I said, i hate tape too. I probably hate it more than you guys because I'm still poor and every once in a while I have to take an event videography job to pay my rent and get reminded why I hate tape so very much. You don't have to make me feel like a leper.

As for two 16-gig cards, i don't know if I'll be able to afford that even though it seems like an optimal solution. I still use the two 4 gigers I've had since owning an HVX200. I still take a laptop with me to my gigs, hot swap when needed, and get through the damn thing. I'm at that state where I'm getting more jobs and, if I could use it all to re-invest in my business, I'd be a happy man but I gotta deal with rent and the constantly rising price of gas.
 
David,

If shooting tape, you'd be shooting DV- right? A lot of DV footage can fit on even some of the smaller P2 cards. DV + P2 mitigates the expense (at least some) and shorter record times of shooting P2. Maybe having a "P2 only" camera wouldn't be so bad for DV/event capture in the end run after all ....? Investing in another tape camera at this stage in the game would make me a little apprehensive .

I have an occasional client that I shoot DV for, I'll be holding onto my HVX-200 for a bit. It's a turn and burn gig where I hand the tape off for someone else to post. In this case being able to shoot tape still works for me, otherwise C-ya tape ! If I could make a P2 workflow work in this situation, I would and tape would go the way of the Wooly Mammoth for me.

I can't wait for the 170 and a tape free future.
 
Yes, I would. I like having the ability to shoot tape. More than once, i've been asked to give it to them on tape and not on P2 or FS. I still don't understand why they wouldn't want the tape deck in the camera. It's not like the HVX was a big camera to begin with.
 
Ted Spencer said:
I don't know whether you're joking about this and/or the tape drive question, but yes, the HVX has a mini-DV tape drive, tapes are available for a few bucks everywhere including gas station convenience stores, and the 32GB P2 cards have been out for a while now:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/521544-REG/Panasonic_AJ_P2C032RG_AJ_P2C032RG_32GB_P2_High.html
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Ted,

I was quoting BG from a previovs post about the 32 gig cards... (Just out of fun:))

Off topic but I have used 5 mini dv tapes in my HVX and the hour meter says 60 hours on the tape drive... 350 hours on the P2 side, that is also way over stated...
 
ChipG said:
I have used 5 mini dv tapes in my HVX and the hour meter says 60 hours on the tape drive... 350 hours on the P2 side, that is also way over stated...
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I figured the P2 hour meter would count any time powered up, but I hadn't considered the tape side. Maybe it's the same idea - all hours powered up while in tape mode, not just drum hours.

I recently sold my 200 and bought a 200a. It (the 200) had 90 hours P2 and zero tape. Nonetheless I like having the tape drive. Maybe some day I'll actually use it : )
 
I haven't shot on tape for years, but the tape drive occasionally gets used if a client has something on miniDV that they want me to capture in. I don't have a seperate miniDV tape drive so just hook up the HVX.
 
booth said:
I haven't shot on tape for years, but the tape drive occasionally gets used if a client has something on miniDV that they want me to capture in. I don't have a seperate miniDV tape drive so just hook up the HVX.
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Had to do that recently too. I officially hate myself for using my HVX200 as a deck.
 
I've been working on a feature in HD. I keep a tape in to capture behind-the-scenes moments... that way I can hand off the data to one crew and the tape to another. Not that I make the behind-the-scenes stuff a priority, but I can get stuff the other cameraperson sometimes can't.
 
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