New to DVX 100b. Need some advice.

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Jimmygnole

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I will be shooting high school football games for some local coaches for scouting purposes. Basic wide shot from the top of press box. Need some advice how to shoot it. The field is lit but is kind of dark. For a point of reference, I've shot there with a pd150 and it was at a 2.8. I just bought a used DVX 100B, which I am not very familiar with. I was thinking to shoot it in 30p to help with the fast motion of a football game. I noticed the first scene is 30p 1/60 shutter. Should I use this?

There is another scene labeled "sparkle". It does not tell me the frame rate and the shutter is 1/63. The picture in this scene looks a little brighter. Is this 60i? Should I just use this?


One final very important question. After the game, the coach takes the tape and digitizes it into a special football video software to break down plays make notes etc... He uses an old consumer mini-dv canon camera as a deck to digitize the footage. The software then has a scene detection that breaks up the plays for him as it digitizes. I need to know, if I shoot in 30p will it play back correctly for him in this camera?

Any help/advice would be appreciated. Thanks :beer:
 
if it's a video being made purely for the coaches to talent spot and not any kind of artistic merit it would be much better if you shot 60i interlaced rather than progressive; this will increse your low light capabilitiy and give you a lot smoother motion which is always important when shooting fast sports.
 
As per any new & mysterious purchase - test, test, test. See if you can shoot a practice and run it through his deck.

The scene-detect he's using for plays? Likely based on the stop-start button, so if you shoot an entire quarter, this may not work - again... test. You may have to pause between plays.

You may run into situations where the shutter speed is slow enough for the lower light at night, but that this causes a lot of motion blur. You may find you want to turn the gain up... that the added noise is more desirable when you need the still frames or slowmo to be less blurred. (Should I say it again? test test test!!! Not being a smart*ss; you'll be glad you did, if only to move closer to "second nature" with a very complex instrument.)
 
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