Filming sports with the HVX200

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Lawrence

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I will be filmming Mixed martial arts which takes place in a cage. ( Chain link fence). The fighters will be moving towards and away from me at various points.

A photographer mentioned that he shoots still camrea at 200mm lens with focus at 1.8

How can I dublicate these settings in my HVX200?

Thanks!

ALSO: Can I change the settings in camera to shoot slo mo? Maybe change some presets and toggle by the push of a button?
 
use a 35 adapter to use a 20mm lens but i wouldn't recommend considering u can't zoom.

shoot 60fps in 30fps timeline using the scene file wheel for the super slo mo effect

I recommend using your stock hvx and shoot in 720/60 and do all your slo mos in post
 
I have no adapter. So I will open the iris to a low f stop.

I normally shoot 720p24

Shooting sports with fast action. So I would like to slow it down. Post may be leave artifacts? or lose resolution.
 
You are not shooting stills. You are shooting video. Totally different formats. Exposure, frame rates and zoom ratio are also totally different.

Shoot 720/60 or 720/30pn.
 
Lawrence said:
I have no adapter. So I will open the iris to a low f stop.

I normally shoot 720p24

Shooting sports with fast action. So I would like to slow it down. Post may be leave artifacts? or lose resolution.
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I agree with Steev, Shoot 60p and put your normal footage on your 24p timeline (your NLE just ignores the extra frames per second). When you want to slow down just "conform" the clip you want slow to 24fps. Since you're recording 60 full images per second, the slowmo is perfect with no artifacts and 60p-24p = 40% speed (which is nice and slow).
 
KnoxHotch said:
I agree with Steev, Shoot 60p and put your normal footage on your 24p timeline (your NLE just ignores the extra frames per second). When you want to slow down just "conform" the clip you want slow to 24fps. Since you're recording 60 full images per second, the slowmo is perfect with no artifacts and 60p-24p = 40% speed (which is nice and slow).
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This.

...and just set your iris to whatever looks right to you while you're there. Its not hard to make little adjustments, maybe go off what the photog said to start and tweak from there, because I wouldn't take his exact word for it. As was said above, photography and video are completely different and the cameras may be differently light sensitive.
 
Thanks! One more question about the HVX200.

I have both CH1 and CH2 set to INPUT 2. I have an external mic plugged into INPUT 2 and the mic switch set to MIC.

Upon playback in FCP Studio 2, why does it sound like channel 2 is coming from a distance, the camera's internal mic?

Only channel 1 is clear and close to the subject's voice. On channel 2, I can hear myself ask the questions very clearly, and I am near the camera's internal microphone.

Thanks for your help

Lawrence
 
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