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cdavison2009

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Good morning all, planning to buy an HVX200 since I love the variable frame rates. I know that my PC processors are too slow to handle true HD (2.8GHz dual-core or faster required) and I'm wondering about editing HDV using Adobe Premiere Pro; the system requirements for Adobe say that for HDV I need a 3.4GHz processor, my PC has dual-core 1.90GHz processors but I'm not sure if together they are comparable to, or maybe even faster than, a single 3.4GHz processor. Any and all advice much appreciated.

Best regards,
Chris
p.s. hope I can edit the HDV footage, can't wait to fool around in AfterEffects :Drogar-Happy(DBG):
 
the HVX200 does not record HDV, it's actually DVCPRO-HD

I edit HD Footage using Premiere CS3 on a dell laptop, it works great.

This is what I have on my laptop:
Inspirion 1720
Rating 3.4
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.5GHz 2.50 GHz

3070MB of RAM

and it's a 32-bit Operating System with Vista

And it works like a charm, hope this helps.

Luis_
 
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Hi Luis,
good to know that my PC may actually be fast enough to handle HD, thanks!
One other question: does the HVX200 offer variable frame rates only when using P2 cards or are they also available when using DV tape? I can't afford the big bucks for the P2 cards so I am looking only at DV tape and am wondering if I can still get 12fps through 60fps using the camera's tape mode.

Best regards,
Chris


Luis_ said:
the HVX200 does not record HDV, it's actually DVCPRO-HD

I edit HD Footage using Premiere CS3 on a dell laptop, it works great.

This is what I have on my laptop:
Inspirion 1720
Rating 3.4
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.5GHz 2.50 GHz

3070MB of RAM

and it's a 32-bit Operating System with Vista

And it works like a charm, hope this helps.

Luis_
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as of (I forget what date) all HVX200 come with a free 16gig P2 Card and the Barry Green HVX Book. Don't know if you are buying a used one or not. I got mine from B&H in august 2008 and the free items were already included.

If you need the info, in tape mode you can record in film cam mode or video cam mode at:
480i / 60i
480i / 30P
480i / 24P
480i / 24PA

Here's all the details if you need them: http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webap...oupId=34401&surfModel=AG-HVX200A&displayTab=O
 
Hi Luis,
I'll only be able to afford a used one, without any P2 card. In tape mode I can't record at variable frame rates like 12 fps or, especially, 60fps? Got a couple of scripts that call for slo-mo efx and so really need that feature.

Thanks,
Chris


Luis_ said:
as of (I forget what date) all HVX200 come with a free 16gig P2 Card and the Barry Green HVX Book. Don't know if you are buying a used one or not. I got mine from B&H in august 2008 and the free items were already included.

If you need the info, in tape mode you can record in film cam mode or video cam mode at:
480i / 60i
480i / 30P
480i / 24P
480i / 24PA

Here's all the details if you need them: http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webap...oupId=34401&surfModel=AG-HVX200A&displayTab=O
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No, no variable frame rates on tape. Heck, virtually none of the special features are available on tape. (Not physically possible--tape needs to move at a constant speed while the P2 cards don't care about that)
 
Thanks Andy, will make sure to stay all-digital in my shoots!


Andy Tejral said:
No, no variable frame rates on tape. Heck, virtually none of the special features are available on tape. (Not physically possible--tape needs to move at a constant speed while the P2 cards don't care about that)
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Just to clarify, the HVX is standard 480p DV (same as the DVX) video when recorded to tape. All of the HD, whether 720 or 1080, at whatever frame rate, are P2 only.

The Panasonic HD streams on the HVX are all 50Mbits/sec or faster, and the maximum bandwidth of tape is 25Mbits/sec. That's one of the reasons all of the tape-based hi-def is using the HDV or AVCHD codecs and MPEG compression; you have to compress like crazy, using a lossy compression format to fit the HD information into a 25Mbit stream.

One option that might save you some money is to get Adobe OnLocation and record direct to your laptop.
 
calchip said:
Just to clarify, the HVX is standard 480p DV (same as the DVX) video when recorded to tape. All of the HD, whether 720 or 1080, at whatever frame rate, are P2 only.

The Panasonic HD streams on the HVX are all 50Mbits/sec or faster, and the maximum bandwidth of tape is 25Mbits/sec. That's one of the reasons all of the tape-based hi-def is using the HDV or AVCHD codecs and MPEG compression; you have to compress like crazy, using a lossy compression format to fit the HD information into a 25Mbit stream.

One option that might save you some money is to get Adobe OnLocation and record direct to your laptop.
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I don't think the HVX is 480p on DV. I'll have to double check that when I get home. I'm pretty sure on tape is all recorded interlaced.
 
It's 480p recorded in an interlaced stream. You re-constitute the progressive frames in post. (No, this is NOT deinterlacing. :) )

You can't record variable frame rates to tape, but you can record them to P2 and then dub the footage down to DV tape (with all the same restrictions that recording DV always brings).
 
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