HMC150 questions answered...

Exact said:
720p / 60 sounds like just what you need for the slow motion bits.
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This will be my first pro camera, I have read that Panasonic recomends 720p/60 for anything where slow motion may be used . I assume there are shutter speed settings also, Would the ND filter be useful dealing with bright sunlight. How about richness of color? I just wanted to get started with a good foundation until I learn more about the camera. I guess there may be a factory preset for what I'm doing? Thanks
 
The ND filter is useful in bright sunlight. If you set the iris to auto, the camera will tell you which ND filter to use. But don't forget to do again your white balance.

720p/60 is useful for slow motion because of the faster frame rate. It will gives you a perfect 720p/30 footage at 50% slow motion.
 
Yes, it is the same size. They are both 72 mm.

But SD lens adapter are usually not suitable for HD cameras because of lower quality lenses.
 
Just shot with my new HMC150 for the first time this weekend and I noticed that clips that are over 26 minutes long are broken up. Is there some kind of setting that can be adjusted to allow it to record indefintely or as much as the sd card will hold?
 
bmoore74 said:
Just shot with my new HMC150 for the first time this weekend and I noticed that clips that are over 26 minutes long are broken up. Is there some kind of setting that can be adjusted to allow it to record indefintely or as much as the sd card will hold?
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No, it is the FAT32 3.99 GB limit of the SDHC cards.
 
bmoore74 said:
Just shot with my new HMC150 for the first time this weekend and I noticed that clips that are over 26 minutes long are broken up. Is there some kind of setting that can be adjusted to allow it to record indefintely or as much as the sd card will hold?
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And for all people moan about the way FCP imports footage, we never see this broken footage (as with some other NLEs) because they are rejoined automatically on import.

It's not something you would normally need to worry about.
 
Transcoding in FCP at 21mbs???

Transcoding in FCP at 21mbs???

Barry

It appears you are the HMC150 Guru...This is my first post in this forum...but I have read through your threads for about 2 hours but couldn't find my exact issue.

I do not have any problems getting my HMC150 footage into FCP (using ProRes), but the transcoded files are never close to the full PH mode of 21mbs. 17mbs is about the best I've seen and that was when I was goofing with 1080i. I shoot mostly in 1080/24p and those files only transcode at 13+mbs. Obviously I'd like to get the full quality of the video into my projects. Any recommendations? I know there are lesser bitrate modes I can choose from (and I have not yet)...so why aren't the PH modes coming in at higher transcoded bitrates? And why is there a drop for 24p? Shouldn't all PH modes be taking advantage of the full bitrate? Isn't that why you were saying 720/24p was so great?

Thanks
 
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You're confusing Mbps and mbps… unfortunately easy to do. FCP reports Mbps (megaBYTES) per second; the HMC data rates are in mbps (megaBITS per second). So, after conversion to ProRes, the files are much larger. ProRes is an intraframe codec with a fixed frame data size; for that reason 24p prores has a lower data rate than 60I/p or 30p.
- Barry
 
Barry_Green said:
1080/30p gets recorded in a 60i wrapper.
1080/24p gets recorded as pure progressive, no 60i wrapper involved.


Always progressive.


Always progressive, always at the native frame rate you shot the footage at. So 720/30p would be set to a 720/30p timeline.


No, and on an HMC150 you don't do any sort of pulldown whatsoever. Shoot in native 24p, edit on a 24p timeline, and master out to a 24p MPEG2 file for a 24p DVD. If pulldown needs to be introduced anywhere along the chain, the DVD player will do it for you.
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Barry, I have your HMC150 book, which I find to be excellent. I really like the practical tips. For example, I just bought a Leica laser rangefinder on Ebay, per your recommendations for a focus aid. Works a treat for certain scenarios!

Seeing your posts here about Vegas and the HMC150 brings up a thought... how about a book (or perhaps an e-appendix) on HMC150-NLE workflows. I use Vegas and have learned much from your workflow posts. I'd just like to pick your brain clean :smile:.
 
Hello Mr. Green, we have been reading your booklet that came with our new panasonic hmc 150. we are trying to get some footage from our new hmc150 to our new fcp. Without changing anything we used shotput pro to get the footage from our sd card to a glyph hard drive. How do we get the files from our glyph to fcp? We tried importing them but there was an error. We see a bdmv folder with CLIPINF, PLAYLIST, and STREAM folders containing .mpl, .mts, and .CPI files...what are we missing here?
 
duet said:
Hello Mr. Green, we have been reading your booklet that came with our new panasonic hmc 150. we are trying to get some footage from our new hmc150 to our new fcp. Without changing anything we used shotput pro to get the footage from our sd card to a glyph hard drive. How do we get the files from our glyph to fcp? We tried importing them but there was an error. We see a bdmv folder with CLIPINF, PLAYLIST, and STREAM folders containing .mpl, .mts, and .CPI files...what are we missing here?
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Yep, it's log and transfer on an Intel Mac with FCP 6.0.x or later.

You can convert to Pro Res in FCP 6.0.x and pro res 422 LT in FCP 7.
 
Thank you for your response! We figured out how to see our footage via the log and transfer window and feel like real rookies right about now :) We've run into a new snag however. One of our shoots causes fcp to quit unexpectedly when we try to open it in the log and transfer window. We think there may be a few corrupt files in this particular shoot. Might this be a cause, or something else? If so, how can we discern these corrupt files without messing up the whole structure? At your convenience we would appreciate any feedback or direction.
 
Sometimes perian causes fcp to quit like that. If you have it installed, uninstall it (temporarily) through the "system preferences" panel.
 
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We used the Restorer application offered by Panasonic and it worked like a champ! Thanks all for your ideas and help.
 
We have a question about the size of our video when our dvd is played on a television versus the computer. We used dvdsp to make our dvd. When played on the T.V. the video looks great, but when played on the computer it looks stretched out...the people all look a little taller for instance. How can we get our dvd video size to be correct on both the computer and television?
If you could point us in the right direction we'd be greatly obliged!
 
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