Hvx200 1 year timelapse on P2

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chazz5150

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Hey what's up fellas. I am wondering if anyone knows what the limiting factor would be for in camera timelapse using 2 64gb P2 cards in a hvx200. If the camera has AC power will it shoot till the P2 cards are full or is there some other reason the camera will power down after a certain amount of time ? Is it better to go the dslr route with a 16gb card and intervalometer? Thanks guys in advance. I don't want to do a computer capture setup, I want something sorta foolproof. Thanks!
 
Yes..the camera will fill up the card in Slot 1 and automatically begin recording on the card in Slot 2. Depending on your recording format, you may be able to get enough time out of your battery to fill 2 64GB cards. Not sure if this is answering your question and I don't quite understand your other question.
 
i would go dslr with an intervalometer. i've done some 48 hour timelapses before with both video camera and dslr and was much happier with dslr workings. just doing timelapses with a dslr is so much better. you can get a huge image to pan and scan with, its just awesome.
 
If it were me I'd also go dslr, an hvx with 2 64 gig cards is very expensive low quality way to go compaired to a dslr.
 
I really just want to know if the HVX200 will power down or limit the amount of time I.E. stop recording or shutoff after a month etc.. I just want to hit the record button, check on it once a week or something to make sure the AC power is still on etc. thanks!
 
I think that you really need to prep for this on so many levels. I think that you'd need to be able to get the footage out of the camera at certain times just to backup and make sure you don't loose anything.. and I also think you would need power and backup power in case that failed... like you might want to go with large block batteries and changing it out once a week or so wouldn't be a big hassel and shouldn't mess up your timelapse. Doing something so lenghty is bound to have some issues so I'd say to make sure you have it squared away in terms of an A plan and a B plan... Seems like an interesting option too...

I also think that possibly having two cameras to capture the action might be a good plan....
 
As long as you supply power she'll keep going, but I'd reccomend against using an HVX for this task. You'll loose alot less worth from a DSLR doing this then with an HVX...If you ever go to sell the HVX it'll be almost impossible to get someone to purchase it with 8,760 hours(or more) on it.
 
A dslr with intravalometer plugged into a computer battery backup power supply is probably the way to go.

Is this a one shot a day type time lapse to show the seasons change? What's up with a whole year?
 
Chip G, love the idea of a computer power supply backup, great idea man! I am starting to lean towards the DSLR route I guess. I want to capture a building being built. I am going for 2-3 cameras in case one F-up, or gets bumped, whatever. Anyone ever done anything around a month or longer yet?
 
You might have to dig deep on google but I remember reading about a programable intravalometer, what it does is take your pictures when the sun is at the same position or multiple positions in the day so they all match. It has a seasonal / time / sun position meter in it. Follow me, you can NOT set it for 6 pm every day because daylight savings will throw it off, it can take pics through out the day when the sun is brightest or start 2 hours after sun up and stop two hous before sundown for the day, pretty cool feature if you think about it. I think it was $1500 and can trigger any dslr, this was a year or so ago that I read about it. I thought it was pretty cool, you could also program it to take one pic a day for a year when the sun is in the same spot and watch the leaves fall on the trees, it snow then spring all while the sun never moved.

Hope this gives you some cool ideas man. Cool idea to have your building timelapse all shot at sunset.
 
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yeah I know the canon remote you can program, but I would still have to remove the "nightime/dark" frames from the batch before I render out the video file. Was thinking of some way to turn the camera off at night and back on in daytime,
 
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