New cams! 1080p60! Panasonic HDC-HS700 & HDC-TM700

I'd love to see some 150 intercut with this camera. I'm totally thinking of getting this camera as a B camera to the 150.

I really am so impressed with Panasonic in what they deliver. I'm also saving my pennies for the AF-100. It would be great for that camera to offer a higher bitrate version and 1080 60p.

I want 60p on the 1080 and then I'll never shoot 720 again.... CHEERS.
 
Here is a split screen of TM700 footage shot at 1080/60p and transcoded to DVCProHD 720/60p and HPX170 shot at DVCProHD 720/60p.

Very quick shots in the rain.

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Panning with stabilser OFF please 1080p 60 format mt2s

Panning with stabilser OFF please 1080p 60 format mt2s

Please can anyone point me to a 1080p 60 video clip created by the HS700 panning across a scene idealy in good light with both a moving and static landscape and most imortantly with the stabilisation turned off.

So far I have yet to see a good panning shot with the stabliser on.
 
all clips on the next will be 25 or 30 fps - from vimeo to youtube none will be 50 or 60

panning is best with OIS off - this is the same for ANY camera

its easy to do - simple push of the button on the top of the cam
 
What convinces you that these Vimeo video oploads (natively 50/60p) are still processed as such by Vimeo?
 
add on lens for panasonic tm700

add on lens for panasonic tm700

Could someone on this forum give me some insight as to what brand wide lens and zoom lens would be best for this video cam........without the vignetting
thanks
 
fosterchild48 said:
Could someone on this forum give me some insight as to what brand wide lens and zoom lens would be best for this video cam........without the vignetting
thanks
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I use the Raynox 0.66 x (52 mm, with step-up ring) and the Century optics 2.0 extender (58 mm, with step-up ring), see also

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=209874

The telezoom obviously vignetts, they all do, the 0.66 x vignetts slightly when using a filter and also as a result of OIS (if moved quickly).
 
This would seem to open a can of worms.

If we can not deliver in 1080p60 outside the internet, how much will it help?

I realize overcranking is nice, but without audio, I don't see overcranking as being a shooting mode that is used a lot other than for effect.

So why are we all excited about a format we can not really shoot in without converting to something else for delivery?

1080p60 seems inevitable sometime in the future as a broadcast standard, but it is not going to happen anytime soon in this economy.

Just wondering out loud.


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It's pretty easy to convert 1080p60 to nice 1080i60 or even 1080p24, either by dropping frames, blending frames, or slowing them down. So 1080p60 gives you a lot of flexibility and most importantly the images at 28Mbps are fantastic with much less mud and artifacts that you get when recording at 1080i60 17Mbps. So even if you deliver in 1080i60, your footage will look better if you start with 1080p60 28Mbps and convert than if you shot 1080i60 17Mbps originally.
 
Why not shoot in the best possible picture right now? These really are our memories that we're recording.

Back in 2003, HD wasn't anywhere near as big as it is now and a lot of people would say why should they buy the HD1 back then. The fact of the matter is that the people who bought it in 2003 have HD footage that's several years old compared to most people who was still shooting in SD. My first HD camcorder was the HC1 back in the summer of 2005 and for sure their was a lot of debate on rather it would be worth paying more money for an HD camcorder but I bought it anyway and I have HD footage that's a little over 5 years. That's a big deal!

Now the same story is happening to the TM700 and the TM750 which is only out in Japan. Here's that deal, to my knowledge, most people with PS3's with the picture adjustments disabled can play the footage without issues. Even Panasonic's Blu-Ray players of this year is are capable of playing back 1080m 60p footage I mean we are more prepared now for 1080 60p files then we were for 1080 60i files when I bought the HC1 back in 2005.

Even leaving aside the excellent picture quality that 1080 60p provides, it's the best way to produce slow motion sequences. While a lot of people are stuck with using 720p to work with, you can use 1080p instead. That's much better than either upressing 720p slow motion footage to 1080p or reducing normal speed 1080p footage to 720p.

Their are absolutely no negatives to having 1080 60p as an option, just positives.
 
John Godden said:
OK, I've had the TM700 just enough to capture some clips. I did a bunch of handheld shots and the image (on the LCD) looks very steady even at max zoom. The OIS appears to work great when viewing the clips on the LCD. No obvious image jumps or stutters. :laugh:

That said, I haven't previewed the clips on a big monitor so my LCD preview might not be so definitive. To whit................ I haven't figured out how to convert the dot-MTS files into Apple prorez yet. MPEG Streamclip doesn't work and that was my previous method for converting the Sanyo 1080 60P MP4 files. I've read of a few other converters on creativecow but would like to get a recommendation from someone on this forum before I go off and invest my time and $'s in a new workflow/conversion process. I'm using FCP and prefer to edit in prorez.

thanks
JohnG
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I used to be a Sony man, this time i thought TM700 to try something new. Quality blew my mind right away! Battery time is about 50% better from what i used to get before, operating time is super fast! Cool camcorder.

JohnG, as your request, you would like to get some recommendation of Panasonic TM700 1080/60P AVCHD Converter or encoder, the program I am using is Aunsoft MTS Converter for Mac which is good at dealing with my AVCHD video recordings from TM700. Like you, I always use this program to transcode AVCHD files to MOV for FCP. It works fine.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=aunsoft-mts-converter-mac&btnI

Hope my advice is useful, JohnG.


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Got my TM700 about a week ago. These last 6 months or so I've just been too busy with work to even think about fun stuff much. But, I'll have a little time here and there now that winter is on the way, so I though I may as well get this little cutie and see how it all goes together.

So far, it looks like I will most likely need a higher power editing system, which if necessary I can put together. It'll take about 2k or so with what I already have to work with. But, I'm looking possibly converting footage into a more easily editable low loss or lossless format, keeping the 60p if possible.

As to the camera itself, at less then $800 this has to be the "one to have" for people wanting to give HD 60p a tryout. I'm sure this will become a new "standard" as it is just to nice to see smooth pans without much blurring, good slow motion availability, and current playability on high line of HD tv's. It looks like authoring to blu-ray is already supported in 60p, though I have yet to try this.

I'll post back he as I see how things develop.

-Rodger
 
Can anyone confirm if I'll be able to take the files off the TM700 and drop them directly into a project in Premiere CS5 WITHOUT needing some 3rd party software for some type of conversion?
 
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