New To The DVX. Shooting Night Club

dvx isn't so good in low light situations. 24p and 24pa are worse than the 30p setting.

play around with the scene file settings. especially the master ped, keep it out of the negatives. and stay away from the cinelike gammas, way noisier. and unfortunately, you'll need to continue using the light. and your shutter speed, while 1/48th looks way better when you can get away with it, but if it's too dark go to 1/30th if shooting 30p, or 1/24th if shooting 24p or 24ps. unfortunately you will get motion blur. and if you can, try to stay at the wider end of the lens, zooming in darkens up.
 
Like Oboya said, DVXs arnt the best for low light situations, Its best to soot in 30p, and reduce the shutter speed down to 1/50th to 1/40th, this will keep motion blur down to a min., If you have to 1/20th of a sec on 30p will give you the brightest image but there will be motion blur, not too bad in my opinion, but it is there. I would stick with 30p though and not compensate with 60i just because 30p has a much better looking image. Stick away from the gain, keep it at 0 if at all possible to keep noise down, Increase house lights to compensate, turn on the zebra settings and expose for the talent.
just my 2cents.

Jon
 
24p, 24p (Advanced), 30p, and 60i.

24p and 24pA is to mimic the film look, by taking out frames making it less smooth (video) and more...Hmm..Jittery?

When you have light for the DVX, and you're lit properly...Your footage will look outstanding, I have learned this from experience.

No light= no color, more noise, worse quality, and grosser picture. Night clubs probably don't have enough lights.
 
Shibuya Oboya said:
dvx isn't so good in low light situations. 24p and 24pa are worse than the 30p setting.
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Not true.
Maybe what you meant was the 24P and 24Pa are worse in terms of low light performance than the 60i setting?

When shooting 24P (or PA) you'll normally use a 1/48th shutter, which will let in more light per frame than the 1/60th you'll normally use when shooting 30P.

24P will also give you the ability to lower the shutter down to 1/24th, giving you an extra little boost of light from the 1/30th that you can drop down to in 30P (which you mentioned in your post, which is why I'm wondering what you meant by 'worse'?)

So all in all, if you're shooting in low light, 24P is probably your best bet.
Unless you're okay with interlaced footage, in which case 60i will probably yield better performance.
 
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