Private FTP access for uploading HD files from the HPX300 camera.

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Ben Digedig said:
This was at pretty close to standard settings - noise on the water is bad. I have managed far better with my latest settings (as detailed elsewhere).

I think this was shot at 720P using AVC i 50 ('PAL'). No shutter was in - so a std 50Hz.

Is this a "professional camera" G, as you say or are we kidding ourselves at this price point and level of compromises needed to achieve it? I love the professional functionality and form factor and have had great results yesterday from it - pics addressing skew/rolling shutter non-issues (in this application/codec) elsewhere.

Also G - can you find something positive to say maybe about the other clip I uploaded with better settings just to help keep the balance? Its the stuff with landscapes and kids by the lake. When I say I've had results that blow me away I totally mean it, but I hate that (old?) noise as much as you.

BD
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Actually yes I did like the clip with the kids, in fact the slomo shot with the boy throwing the rock at the water was very nice, I have to say the DRS does a great job, but I cant tell if its introducing more noise in the footage or not. The slomo shots really looked much more like what I was hoping we would get out of this camera, it also shows how much you can push the colors.

I stated elsewhere on this forum that using the noise as "film grain" could be a very positive thing, and I brought it up to a director of a feature film we are working on. The camera is being optioned as one of them to shoot the film. Its a "dark and gritty" film so the film grain look would actually help.

On another note, I keep seeing people saying they cant work with the ZIP file Jan uploaded on our server... Is everyone having problems with it now? I for a while heard it was fine and the problem was peoples systems, but now i havent heard anything since then...

I'm sure if we have to upload the file again we will.
 
Giuseppe Pugliese said:
Actually yes I did like the clip with the kids, in fact the slomo shot with the boy throwing the rock at the water was very nice, I have to say the DRS does a great job, but I cant tell if its introducing more noise in the footage or not. The slomo shots really looked much more like what I was hoping we would get out of this camera, it also shows how much you can push the colors.

I stated elsewhere on this forum that using the noise as "film grain" could be a very positive thing, and I brought it up to a director of a feature film we are working on. The camera is being optioned as one of them to shoot the film. Its a "dark and gritty" film so the film grain look would actually help.

On another note, I keep seeing people saying they cant work with the ZIP file Jan uploaded on our server... Is everyone having problems with it now? I for a while heard it was fine and the problem was peoples systems, but now i havent heard anything since then...

I'm sure if we have to upload the file again we will.
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Good morning Giuseppe,

I tried to download Jan's zip file again last night after upgrading to the newest version of Stuffit (just to make sure), and no dice. The file won't finish uncompressing, I suspect there's something up with it. It would be great if you could upload it again.

Thanks man.
 
Giuseppe:

The Jan footage variously shows at 178 MBs and 878 MB/s

I've downloaded with two Mac clients a half a dozen times.

Like the other poster, every time I get an error message when trying to unzipped.

It is kind of frustrating, and I would hope that you might address this.
 
David S. said:
Giuseppe:

The Jan footage variously shows at 178 MBs and 878 MB/s

I've downloaded with two Mac clients a half a dozen times.

Like the other poster, every time I get an error message when trying to unzipped.

It is kind of frustrating, and I would hope that you might address this.
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Thanks for letting me know, I think the files were messed around with, I am going to get a fresh download from Jan and upload it to our servers. Most likely this will take a few days, until then please feel free to browse around the FTP folder and check out all the other stuff uploaded on there.
 
David,

Be sure that you have unzipped the folder, more that just being able to see the folders and contents. That first opening is just to show you what is there. Once you see the files go back to the Pulldown on File lable and choose unzip files. Then and only then will the fills really be unzipped. Yes it is a little unintuitive, but take it from someone who learned the same way as you are. Once you have the contents folder unzipped you should be golden.

Good luck,

Jan
 
The Zip Folder is being fixed, we don't know when it happened but the file size is incorrect. The old ZIP folder has been deleted and a fresh one is being uploaded to the server as we speak.

We ask kindly that anyone wanting to download that zip folder hold off until at least 4 hours from this post.

All other footage has reported no problems with downloading.

Anyone who had trouble with accessing her folder within the past few days will be given a new password upon request. Until then we have many other user uploaded clips that you can download from our FTP site, some in raw P2 file formats and others in easy to view .MOV and .MP4 downloads as well.
 
The file:

http://newyorkfilmstudios.com/hpx300/SkewVideo.zip

Is back up and running, the file size was fixed and should not cause any problems. If problems arise please make sure you are using the proper ways to download as instructed on page 1 of this thread.

This file has been tested with direct downloads and FTP access download via FireFox and FireFox FTP. Please download and use FireFox and FireFox FTP for FREE to have the least amount of problems when downloading our files.

Footage is always welcome, please send MXF files if you have, as well as ProRess.

I would like to see some footage other than tests of Skew or Noise, and instead get some real world footage of the camera in use on a project, such as interviews, short films, live action, and more. Since a lot of the footage we have been getting is 720p we would kindly ask that we be sent 1080p footage as well. We can handle the size so don't be shy!

1080p native footage is very useful in seeing what this camera can really do and would love to see some footage like what we have seen from Phillip Bloom in his use of the camera.

NYFS is working on getting our hands on a camera for a full day's shoot, if you want to be a part of this test please let us know. This will most likely be in the NYC area, more details to come. We will be shooting "Cine Style" with 35mm adapters and actors in multiple lighting setups including outdoors, indoors, green screen, and night time footage. We will also shoot without 35mm adapters to be fair in comparison. We will test hand-held, tripod, dolly, and if time permits jib and Steadicam as well.
 
Giuseppe Pugliese said:
The file:

http://newyorkfilmstudios.com/hpx300/SkewVideo.zip

Is back up and running, the file size was fixed and should not cause any problems. If problems arise please make sure you are using the proper ways to download as instructed on page 1 of this thread.

This file has been tested with direct downloads and FTP access download via FireFox and FireFox FTP. Please download and use FireFox and FireFox FTP for FREE to have the least amount of problems when downloading our files.

Footage is always welcome, please send MXF files if you have, as well as ProRess.

I would like to see some footage other than tests of Skew or Noise, and instead get some real world footage of the camera in use on a project, such as interviews, short films, live action, and more. Since a lot of the footage we have been getting is 720p we would kindly ask that we be sent 1080p footage as well. We can handle the size so don't be shy!

1080p native footage is very useful in seeing what this camera can really do and would love to see some footage like what we have seen from Phillip Bloom in his use of the camera.

NYFS is working on getting our hands on a camera for a full day's shoot, if you want to be a part of this test please let us know. This will most likely be in the NYC area, more details to come. We will be shooting "Cine Style" with 35mm adapters and actors in multiple lighting setups including outdoors, indoors, green screen, and night time footage. We will also shoot without 35mm adapters to be fair in comparison. We will test hand-held, tripod, dolly, and if time permits jib and Steadicam as well.
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Hey G,

I just wanted to thank you for the time and resources you've put into getting more info out about the 300.

A big Thank you !
 
NEW GREAT LOOKING CLIPS FROM THE HPX300 series camera

NEW GREAT LOOKING CLIPS FROM THE HPX300 series camera

New ProRes HQ clips uploaded to our server, folders are zipped and start with the name rushe. Please user our FTP option to download the files, our servers usually push them out at around 500mbps downloads shouldn't take more than a few mins.

The footage looks great, clean and clear.
Info:

HPX301 + JVC hz-ca13u adaptor + Zeiss vario sonnar zoom 12-120mm T2
Lens was mostly open at T4 - T5.6
camera was around 3 meter / 9.8 foots of the subject

lighting setup was light :
2 x sunbouces
1 x 1.2K Arri Fresnel HMI

it was not possible to plug the hmi on the first picture scene (only 2 sunbounce)

camera setting & scene file :
1080p 25
gain : -3db
WB : manual on a withe card (70%)

DETAIL LEVEL: 4
V DETAIL LEVEL: 1
DETAIL CORING : 3
CHROMA LEVEL: -7
CHROMA PHASE: -1
COLOR TEMP Ach: 0
COLOR TEMP Bch: -1
MASTER PED: -6
GAMMA : CINELIKE D
KNEE: LOW
MATRIX: CINE-LIKE
SKIN TONE DTL : OFF
V DETAIL FREQ : THIN
 
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