Mixing footage from HV20 and HVX

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timbook2

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I am going to be shooting a doc with HVX and Canon HV20. HVX on FS100 or P2 in 720/25p and the HV 20 in HDV p25.

Footage is going to be imported into FCP.

Am I going to run into problems? should I use another setting for the HVX ? if yes which ? What would be the best settings to mix those two?

The final work is supposed to have a film look but if it goes to TV and is broadcast, will I have to conform it to interlaced again ?

could I also shoot in 1080i on both and change it into 25p ( PAL here) afterwards?


Any tips ?

thank you
 
I'd be interested as well as I'm thinking of buying a HV-20 as a second camera to the HVX for a shoot I'm doing. Any thoughts if this is the best choice of camera in this price range for the job?
 
Since you are going for a filmlook, you probably would be best off shooting at 1080/25p on the HVX200 so that you can match with the HV20's 1080/25p footage. This would allow your FCP to take the footage in the same project. You can log and transfer the HVX footage or use Raylight for Mac to import directly. You'd still have to process the HV20 clips to remove the pulldown. You'll probably have to do some color boosting to the HV20 to get it's colors to pop as much as the HVX200's but that should be okay since the HVX200 1080 might be a little softer then the HV20's.

Another alternative would be to shoot 720p on the HVX200 and use a program like DVFilm MXFX to resize it to 1080 and also to remove some of the grain to make it match up with the HV20's slightly sharper image.

Or you could go the other way and take the HV20 footage down to 720p after removing the pulldown. You can use programs like TMPGenc or Maker to remove the pulldown and resize to 720p. Also, with this method, you could shoot 1080/50i on both cameras and have the film look applied by Maker.

Going to broadcast, you'll probably have to add in a pulldown to make a 50i signal, but that is an easy process once you are finished editing at 25p.

Sorry, to put a jumble of options up there. I think your best bet is shooting 1080 on both cameras then you just have to remove the HV20 pulldown and you can edit.

Tai - I don't think there is a camera as in the HV20/HV30's price range that performs as well as it does. Maybe one of the new consumer/prosumer Panasonic AVCHD(not the HMC150) camera's that have 25p.

Hope this helps,
Andy
 
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