HVX200A - First Look

has anybody shot dvcpro50 with hvx200? how does it come vis-a-vis dv25 and other bigger cameras that caryy 2/3inch chip and shoot dvcpro50?
is there a comparison available shomewhere?
 
Barry, were you able in the recent days to perform further testing concerning smear and resolution? When can we hope for a more in depth report?
 
Dvcpro50, Dvcpro-hd, Dv25

Dvcpro50, Dvcpro-hd, Dv25

dver,

I've shot just about half of my paid work in DVCPRO50. The color and resolution using the HVX200 is amazing. And, after working with it for a few years, I really notice how much better it is than DV25.

FYI~ When compressing video for the web, I make sure to go straight from the DVCPRO50 or DVCPRO-HD file, keeping as much color as possible.

-andrew

dver said:
has anybody shot dvcpro50 with hvx200? how does it come vis-a-vis dv25 and other bigger cameras that caryy 2/3inch chip and shoot dvcpro50?
is there a comparison available shomewhere?
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Does anyone know how the 200A compares (low Light wise) to the vx 2000 which is a 2 lux? I want to switch over to a better camera but I need the low light. The 200A has a 500 ISO how can I compare?

Mike Murray
 
Wish I'd known

Wish I'd known

I wish I'd have known the "A" model was coming. Instead of buying the 200 in mid March, I would have waited for the A.
 
Erik Olson said:
To clarify... I now see no indication in the official HVX200a brochure that 1080/24pN has been added. Damn brochure gremlins!

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If you do a bit of research on the DVCProHD CODEC you'll find that there is no spec for 1080/24pN. I believe that this has to do with current and speculative broadcast specs which seem to have progressive 720 but only interlaced 1080 (here in the US at least). I'm sure it has to do with bandwidth issues and how many channels they can get out on the RF bands.

If I understand it right the 170's HD-SDI is a pre-compression output, which means you can jack it into a Kona card and record on a computer in any CODEC you want (or even raw). To me that would be the shiznet right there. I think the only difficulty would be the same difficulty as the Hydra mod, that Audio and Video would not be synced. Do I have all this right? I wonder how clean THAT image would be...

Bob
 
Bob Gruen said:
If I understand it right the 170's HD-SDI is a pre-compression output, which means you can jack it into a Kona card and record on a computer in any CODEC you want (or even raw).
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Correct.

I think the only difficulty would be that Audio and Video would not be synced.
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No, this is not a problem because the HPX170's HD-SDI port has embedded audio and timecode right in the signal.
 
Barry_Green said:
No, this is not a problem because the HPX170's HD-SDI port has embedded audio and timecode right in the signal.
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Perfect! I wonder what the max resolution from the HD-SDI port it? I seem to recall that the Hydra mod used all of the CCD chips surface area while Panny crops a little... Also, true 1080 24P would come out of the port, right? It wouldn't be 1080 24P/i, would it?

Now all that would be needed is a small computer recording system to haul around with it...
 
Bob Gruen said:
Perfect! I wonder what the max resolution from the HD-SDI port it? I seem to recall that the Hydra mod used all of the CCD chips surface area while Panny crops a little...
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The resolution coming out the HD-SDI port might be a little higher than the 1080 recorded res; it'll be quite a bit higher than the recorded 720P res. It'll be 4:2:2 at 10 bit, but as I understand it's only using the upper 8 bits, the lower 2 bits are forced to zero (like the HPX500 and the Canon cameras do).

Also, true 1080 24P would come out of the port, right? It wouldn't be 1080 24P/i, would it?
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Probably not; it probably works the same way the EX1 and HPX500 do, which is that all HD-SDI 1080 output is embedded in a 1080/60i signal.

Now all that would be needed is a small computer recording system to haul around with it...
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Or a Convergent Designs XDR or NanoFlash portable HD-SDI recorder...
 
I bought the Matrxo MXO for HD monitoring. Signal is carried along the DVI cable as you know, which is maximum 8 bit. If I'm utilizing the 10 bit signal from the HD-SDI, how would that work with the Matrox? Would it simply not function or would it drop the useless two bits?
 
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