Recent content by xander76

I just wanted to send out a quick thank you to everyone here at DVXUser.com. I have gotten so much good advice from this site, and I wanted to tell you that my feature-length DVX-shot documentary, "Blood, Sweat, and Glitter", won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at its premiere at the...

I found a small article from last September about Panasonic's new line of speedy SD cards; they have a write speed of up to 20MBps. I'll bet that these are the SD cards being used in P2 cards for two reasons: 1) They're made by Panasonic (duh). 2) If you RAID 0 four of these cards together in a...

I'm reading a realtime feed of the Macworld SF keynote, and it seems that Steve Jobs just announced that the new version of iMovie will be able to edit HD-FX footage.  According to the feed, a Sony rep just came on stage to join in the presentation. No word yet if FCP or FCE will be able to...

I remember reading somewhere that Panasonic "cleared up" some problems with the anamorphic adapter for the DVX100, but I (a) can't find the source now and (b) am not sure that source was correct. My questions are: (1) Has the ana lens been changed at all since release, and if so, how? (2) Does...

I just talked to a director about lighting recommendations for an indoor shoot (with a DVX100, natch) in a "revival-style tent that can hold 200 people", but I was at a loss to tell her how much light she'd need exactly. I've taken a few classes in cinematography and lighting and done a few...

For those of you who didn't see it, Apple released Final Cut Express 2.0 today for $299. Looking at the feature list, it looks like FCE2 is based on FCP4 (as ppposed to FCE1, which was based on FCP3). However, 24fps editing and advanced pulldown are two features that are only available in FCP...

So I shot a short film for a class this weekend with my week-old DVX100, and overall I had a great time with it. There were some sound and backlighting issues, but overall it was a great experience. The one big problem, though, is that about three times, the camera would start this horrible...

Newbie/forum lurker here who has just received (hours ago) a DVX100. Hooray. I'm trying to be a good boy and read the manual instead of just plunging in and messing with buttons (I already manually adjusted the zoom without switching from servo before I read in the manual that was a no-no...)...