Aja Ki Mini or Nano on HVX200A

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sonuxxx

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I'm going to shoot a short this summer i was wondering if i can use the Aja ki Mini or Nanoflash on the HVX200A . Would it make any difference? would the footage get better.
 
Those recorders require a digital input, either HD-SDI or HDMI. The HVX200A doesn't offer either.

You've already got an excellent codec in the HVX200A, you wouldn't get much (if anything) additional from an external recorder.
 
You could get the standard KiPro. That has analog HD component inputs on it. Great recorder and it records your HVX200 as ProRes files. If you go that way I would suggest plugging your audio into the KiPro instead of the camera as it won't embed the audio in the component outputs.
 
jonack said:
You could get the standard KiPro. That has analog HD component inputs on it. Great recorder and it records your HVX200 as ProRes files. If you go that way I would suggest plugging your audio into the KiPro instead of the camera as it won't embed the audio in the component outputs.
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If I may interject. The outputs on the HVX are delayed 2 frames if I remember correctly. If you record audio straight into the recorder your audio will get recorded 2 frames ahead of your video. This stems back to the days of the DVX-100. The first version had a 2 frame audio delay when recording 24p, to fix that they delayed the audio as well in the DVX-100a/b. Somehow this processing time needed made its way into the HVX. Sometimes when recording with 2 HVX cameras I would double record my audio to be safe. Outputting the audio from one HVX to another caused my audio to be off by 2 frames on the second camera.

So yeah, I'd suggest feeding your audio into the camera and then outputting the camera to the recorder if you want to keep everything synced. Now this isn't true of all cameras, but it is in this case.
 
Barry_Green said:
You've already got an excellent codec in the HVX200A, you wouldn't get much (if anything) additional from an external recorder.
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With DVCPro HD you've got I-fram & 4:2:2, but you don't have full raster. 1080 DVCPro is 1280x1080, really freaking wide rectangle pixels (1:1.5, HDV is only 1:1.33). So the main advantage you'll gain is a full raster 1920x1080 codec.

Though with any of these recorders, it really depends on what you're recording. If you're doing a bunch of talking heads in front of stationary back ground for web videos, it is going to be hard to see a difference between Prores HQ & AVCam.
 
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