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Have been experimenting with 1080 24Pa and have noticed every fourth frame(i think) has a strange mangled line going halfway across the top of the frame,approx 7 lines thick.Have included pdf image.Is this a flagged frame or is the sensor playing up?Also have tried to extract 24P footage in...

I was looking on the panasonic website at the Iditarod dogs races and P2.There was footage of one of the camera men and there seemed to be an attachment underneath the HVX camera which seemed to be a handle /trigger combo which reminded me of the old super 8 days.Is this what it was or did it...

does anyone have advice on cleaning the viewfinder,the manual says never to wipe it because of a special coating, yet skin oils get on the glass an I thought this was bad for any type of optical glass?Also won't the viewfinder eventually just get blurry from grime if it's never cleaned?

I bought the NTSC version from GlobalMediaPro (don't be angry with me folks), it arrived in three days.I'm an hobby film maker so the 24P framerate doesn't worry me as any distribution is likely to be web based.Anyway after playing with it all afternoon I'm sure I made the right decision in...

Has anyone used the Fig Rig with the HVX.Any feedback on your experiences?Also is there a control device to go with it so you can stop/start recording without taking ones hands off the wheel so to speak? Ia it the same controller that works with the DVX?

been looking at the owners manual (NTSC) as well as the invaluable guide(PAL) and there appears to be a curious difference in capacity when recording native frames.The NTSC version supposedly gets 10 mins out of a 4 gig card at 24pN whereas the PAL version gets approx 8 mins at 25pN.You wouldn't...

Hello,thinking of buying HVX and have been playing with MXF files downloaded from links on this site.I'm a little confused as to the actual frame size of 720p footage.Various QT clips are 1280 by 720 wheras MXF imported into edius shows 960 by 720.Are there different frame sizes to choose from...