hvx settings for feature film ??

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cur-sed_neil

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hello all.

i am about to purchase an hvx to shoot my latest feature film (my last one was shot on a dvx100a)... anyhoo, i am trying to sort out how much storage space i am going to need in post production and what "setting" to use as far as resolution - i presumed i would be shooting 1080/24p, but there is all this talk on the forums about 720p and i don't klnow what that is exactly...

am i going to need a terabyte of storage? more than that?

thanks in advance and sorry if this seems like a stupid question to all you pros out there! :)
 
If you shoot 1080, you will need 1 gig per minute of raw footage. Plus whatever for your editing, etc.

Probably the talk of 720 is b/c of over/undercranking (fast/slow motion).

Settings- That's just something you are going to have to experiment with based on your scenario, look you want, lighting, etc. etc. There isn't going to be a magic setting that you will find that will work for "everyhing". Though, when you get BG's HVX Book/CD, there are some great scene files in there for different "film looks".

Later,
Jason
 
For 1080, you'd need 4x as much storage as for your last one.

For 720/24pN, you'd need 1.6x as much storage as for your last one.
 
ok. thanks guys. here's one more question for you wizards:

if i have a 2 minute clip in 1080/24p on a removable hard drive, how do i just bring in a 30 second clip from the 2 minutes of footage into my NLE ?? with dv, i would just "capture" from the dv tape playing in the camera the footage i wanted, but how do i do the same thing with the hvx hd footage ??

i am thinking maybe i would import the entire 2 minute clip into a timeline, then export the 30 second section i want, then re-import the 30 second clip and delete the 2 minute one from my drive... would there be a generation of loss if i did this ??

make sense ? is there an easier way ?

thanks!
 
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