AG-DVX200 4K Large-Sensor Handheld Camcorder

It reminds ME of the XL2 on certain settings ("black stretch"). That was a little different, as what it appeared to be doing was preserving dynamic range by boosting the crap out of the shadow regions, so in situations of extreme contrast (outside sunny day/shade), you would get these very weird desaturated/bluish areas where the shadows were super dark. That was at least predictable. . .the grey areas on the DVX footage don't seem to follow any "rules" that I can see.
 
the grayish blotches on skin tones on this camera is baffling to me and very unusable from my view point. does the GH4 exhibit this shooting in LOG?
 
Grading an 8 bit 4:2:0 image is treacherous at best, your latitude is minimal. If you are serious about grading either use an external recorder or record in 4K and down res to 1080 for better color subsampling. Keep in mind that image might just have been a bad color correction job.
 
its on like ALL the footage from this cam where human skin is in the image. go back and look at all the samples that have been posted since the beginning. once you know to look for it, you cant unsee it.
 
All V Log had grey-blue blotches. Cine V had face red blooming in early samples and no one knows how the finished non log profiles will grade when it comes to face tones. Earliest samples featured Geisha girls with with white makeup or people in darkness making it impossible to judge how it handled variations in facial tones.
 
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True North said:
Grading an 8 bit 4:2:0 image is treacherous at best, your latitude is minimal. If you are serious about grading either use an external recorder or record in 4K and down res to 1080 for better color subsampling. Keep in mind that image might just have been a bad color correction job.
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For sure not as good as 4:22 or 10 bit. But they explained the amount of difference in recording media that would be needed for say Prores 444 at the the intro function at the Panasonic LA office yesterday. They showed some footage that was shot in log then graded. Looked very good. Barry was there speaking in a blur explaining the zillion features that this camera system has. Really those tons of features are the camera's strongest suit. Its amazing its $4,200. For those of us that have shot with HVX and HPX series cameras this is another level.
 
I commented a distributor here in Spain, which only accepts original batteries Panasonic, supported give problems, is that true?
 
cescsbd said:
I commented a distributor here in Spain, which only accepts original batteries Panasonic, supported give problems, is that true?
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You may be able to use aftermarket third-party batteries in the DVX200, but the only ones that are officially supported are the genuine Panasonic batteries. It doesn't use the original batteries (CGA-D54 series), it only works with the newVW-VBD58 batteries.
 
Barry_Green said:
It doesn't use the original batteries (CGA-D54 series), it only works with the newVW-VBD58 batteries.
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I just tried out an HC-X1000 which ships with a VW-VBD58 battery and my after market batteries worked fine. I know they are different cameras but are you sure they won't work with CGA-D54 batteries?
 
True North said:
I just tried out an HC-X1000 which ships with a VW-VBD58 battery and my after market batteries worked fine. I know they are different cameras but are you sure they won't work with CGA-D54 batteries?
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Yes, I'm sure. It is true that the HC-X1000 works with both the VW-VBD58 and also the older CGA-D54 series. But the DVX200 doesn't. It works only with the VW-VBD58.
 
Hi !
I've noticed a sort of subtle delay/reverb with the DVX200 audio monitoring (not on the rushes).
But, unlike AF101, there is no "Live" or "Recording" HP Mode to fix it..
Any thoughts Barry ?
 
Le Chat Errant said:
Hi !
I've noticed a sort of subtle delay/reverb with the DVX200 audio monitoring (not on the rushes).
But, unlike AF101, there is no "Live" or "Recording" HP Mode to fix it..
Any thoughts Barry ?
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They didn't include the LIVE/RECORDING option; they integrated that functionality into the way the audio outputs work.

So -- if you're listening through headphones, the audio is passed immediately through. No reverb, no delay, no echo. But you must have the headphones plugged into the "Headphones" output jack.

If you're listening to the "AUDIO OUT" port (which is exactly the same size and shape as the headphone port), then you will get an echo. The audio out port is delayed to match the video. But you should not have your headphones plugged into it. Even though they will fit, and they will work, it's the wrong place to plug them in. Plug them into the headphones port instead.

If you're listening to an external monitor and the headphones are connected to that monitor so you're hearing the audio through that monitor, then yes you'll hear a bit of echo, as the "live" sound leaks through your headphones, and the delayed/sync'd audio is piped into the headphones. That's always been the case with Panasonics, and that's why you typically don't monitor that way; you monitor through the headphones jack on the camera instead, where the throughput is immediate and there's no echo.

However, depending on the lag inherent in your monitor, things may look out of sync. The monitor outputs have a few frames of lag in them, and certain monitors may have their own lag before displaying the footage, so ... if you're listening to the live/immediate audio (through the camera's headphones jack), but watching a monitor that's lagging by four or five frames, then it may look out of sync. It in fact won't be out of sync on the recording, the audio is recorded properly in sync with the video and when you go to play it back you'll see that, but when live monitoring the lag between immediate audio and slightly delayed video may make it look like the audio is a bit out of sync. But it isn't.
 
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