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deadpirate2

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I'm a third year film student, finally investing in my own video camera. I wanted to focus mainly on using 16mm, particularly for my senior project, but it just won't be possible financially.

Anyway... I'm placing my order for a dvx100b this week (probably through evs) and just wanted to ask before i spend all of my budget on it... is the 24p feature really worth it? This is a big investment for me so I'll be hanging on to it awhile, and I definitely want something high quality. But is that extra one or two thousand dollars going to pay off in the end? I've done a lot of research into the whole 24p/HD split, and don't think HD is really practical for me (either in price range or for post production) but I just wanted to get some more opinions on this. When choosing this model over several others i was considering, the only real significant difference is 24p.

I'll be using it for short films (I'm leaning more towards documentary work) and then in a year or so, will start a year-long feature project.

any thoughts?
 
dvx100 (A or B) is (as we consider) actually the only true DV 24p Advance- cine gamma, in the market.

We have shoot 4 short features 1 wild life, 1 docudrama and 2 fiction, and blow up to 35 mm (one of them at DVFilm in Houston, one at swiss effects, and 2 at Cine Color, Argentina) and the result, as my colleages said, is equal or better than 16mm blow Up to 35 mm.

We have take advantage of the superb software DVRack for production.

We edited and color correct in house with simple Athlon 62, 1.7 Gh, 1 Gb ram, 500 GB Raid HD, with Premiere Pro, Magic Bullet, Lustre, and After Efx.

In our country, finacial resources are little than creative resources, the DVX get us in the business faster, cheaper and easier.

Now, two months ago, we have the wonderful HVX200, actually we are filming a long feature (fiction)
 
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is the 24p feature really worth it?
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Amazing this answer is still sought even in 2006.

Yes. It is worth it. Everything else is simply a Soap Opera (60i). Totally get it from evs ('Cept Rush isn't there anymore :( )

You will NOT be bummed. You will be totally stoked.
 
If you're into cinema, why not wait, save up and get an HVX? HD is the way of the future. The post production can be handled easily on a good new desktop.
 
I think there is a general fallacy (fear) about shifting to HD, especially when you proffer the reason of "post production" issues as your justification. You can edit HD footage seamlessly in Final Cut Pro on a G4 laptop. If you are thinking of going for the DVX100, then you should seriously re-consider just saving up a little more and going for the gold. Plus, you don't have to digitize anything, like you would with DV footage. All you'd have to do is slip the P2 card into a PCMCIA slot (on a G4) and instantly have footage to work with.

The HVX is ridiculously versatile, you will be able to get the "film look" with 24p, and even if you wanted to venture into the DV realm, you can shoot DV with the HVX. There is really no question here... do yourself a favor, dude.

--Justin.
 
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