Recent content by Alex 3D

On a recent shoot (DVCPro50 to FireStore), inside a home, we were having some issues with focusing. In Auto Focus mode, sometimes it would drift back and forth as if we were in very low light and it was looking for an edge with contrast. After switching to Manual Focus and HOLDING the focus ring...

I was thinking about trying out different formats for saving to FireStore. Since we're all Mac based, would it make sense to shoot in QuickTime mode versus P2 mode? (We shoot DVDPro50 FYI). I guess either way, I still have to download them and they end up as QuickTime files when all is said and...

I think I just may have screwed myself royally. Somehow, the Video Out OSD was turned on during a shoot. The clips on my FireStore appear to have the display burned into the clips. Is there ANY WAY that this is a track and can still be removed at this point? Do I have a days worth of useless...

We're planning on getting two new Quad-Intels and FCS 2 upgrades. We currently have old Kona video cards and Sony NTSC monitors. I'm guessing we'll have to dump our old Konas since the Intels have different slots. In a nutshell, our workflow is shoot on HVX-200 (DVCPro50), mix in some running...

Have any of you FireStore users seen this problem? I popped the FS100 onto my G5, import P2 in Final Cut. All my shots are there except one. The second to last shot. Funny thing is, if I go into the FS via the finder, I can see the missing clip's thumbnail. I also see the .xml file and the...

I'm looking to shoot slow motion with the HVX and slow it down in Final Cut. We're going to shoot some models with nice hair for a salon. The hair would be moving in slow motion-I hope. What I did was set it to Film Cam, 60 frame, 720P/60P, 1/120 shutter. and manual focus. I bring it into FCP...

Just installed the v3 firmware upgrade to out FS-100. I can't seem to view thumbnails of the clips in the camera. I can view the actual clips, just not the thumbnails. All I get is empty blue squares on the HVX's LCD screen. I used a P2 card once on all the clips showed up as thumbnails for...

Hello all. I currently work in a small group where we produce :30 TV for a car dealership. We have a 2.5 TB Xserve RAID from three years ago. Very fast but noisy and hot. I see a new crop of big desktop drives that have impressive speed, but wasn't sure the minimum speed I need. We make the...

Slightly off-topic, although the footage is shot with the HVX. :) I was thinking of keeping a copy of my exported, uncompressed :30 sec. TV spots on miniDV in case I ever needed to pull one out of my hat. The real question is, if I need to pull one off down the road, what type of quality...

I've been using the FS-100 with our HVX for a couple of weeks now and I love the tapeless workflow. I was wondering a couple of things... 1. Do clips capture to FS save the settings for each shot? Like EXIF data from still cameras? 2. I'm still unclear when and when not to use the Remove...

I'm in between upgrading all our Macs to Tiger and Final Cut Studio 5. In the mean time, we really wanted to start shooting with our HVX using the new FireStore to get the Pro50 output. Since most of the edit Macs are still on Panther and Final Cut 4.5 and can't use the clips I download from...

I've been learning the HVX and using a P2 card this week and had a question. I thought it was possible, after mounting the P2 on the Mac desktop from the cam via FireWire, to copy the native P2 clips to my hard drive and be able to import them into Final Cut from there. Final Cuts "Import P2"...

I have the awesome HVX. Well, I rented an 8 GB P2 card for a test run (we've been shooting miniDV tape) and I like it a lot. I'm shooting mainly local car dealer stuff outside, showroom. We're building a nice stable of Ari and Keeno lights. My end target is burning a BetaSP tape to broadcast...

I'm just now trying out shooting DVCPro50 with our HVX-200 and was wondering if Final Cut can tell me what color space my clips are? I just want to make sure my clips are 4:2:2. Thanks. -Alex

Hello all. I'm still very new to the HVX, and filiming in general. I want to shoot a showroom of people looking at cars and taking them away, but then have them drive away. The trick is to have the footage play back fast so it looks as if customers are "buzzing" around and the cars are going...