Should I trade in my Sony HVR-v1 for a HVX200?

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Alex Brown

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I was wondering if anyone could help me compare the Sony v1 and the Pan HVX100. I have owned my v1 for just over a year from new and never really used it. I have always been comparing it to other cameras on the market, and to be honest I bought it over the HVX200 at the time due to me not being able to afford the p2 cards to record HD onto.

I have been offered a HVX200 with 80hours on the drum for £950, the seller also concidered trading it for my v1, with under 10 hours on the drum.

I am particulary interested in the 60fps recording mode. Does this drop into my NLE as 60fps or 24? I intend to shoot 60fps to get longer slow motion clips to what I can achive at 24p with the v1. (when I extend a clip longer, it starts to become un-smooth, does 60fps mean longer extended sequences?)

Sorry for the rambling of questions, so confused right now!

Thanks, Alex.:bath:
 
If you shoot 24pN in 720pN mode on the HVX200 and overcrank the camera to 60fps, then when you drop that overcranked footage into your 23.98 timeline it will play back with very good slow motion. Likewise, you can undercrank, for example, down to 2 or 4 fps, and achieve very good fast motion when dropped into the 24fps timeline. Your timeline rate should be selected based on your record format (i.e. 24p which is 23.98, or actually 23.976). Your under and overcranked footage (i.e. 2fps up to 60fps) drop directly into that 23.98 timeline and play back either faster or slower than your standard 24fps timebase.

Be aware that when using those variable frame rates (over and under) your camera does not record audio. It will in any of the default frame rate modes, but if you change that framerate to be different from the recording fps then it will not. Also, the variable rates are only available in the 720p HD native record modes directly (and with some additional adjustments in 1080 and 480i).
 
Def. trade it. I've been using a V1 for a few years at work. You can get some good stuff with it but the 200 is just way more flexible. The slow mo, improved codecs in dvcpro50 and dvcprohd. Plus I have found that the v1 is terrible at recording audio.
I recently bought a hpx170 for personal camera, I love it!. The tapeless workflow feels like a giant leap forward. Go for the trade up!
 
Thanks for the replies, was the info I was looking for!

Going back to 60fps, once I have dropped it into my 24p timeline, how does the video clip act if I wanted to drag it out to make it playback even slower?

Am I right in thinking that a 2 second clip shot at 60fps plays back on a 24p timeline over 5 seconds before it have been changed?
 
Alex Brown said:
Thanks for the replies, was the info I was looking for!

Going back to 60fps, once I have dropped it into my 24p timeline, how does the video clip act if I wanted to drag it out to make it playback even slower?
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Depends on the amount of time stretch and the content of the motion. By definition slo-mo needs more frames. If you can't generate them in camera, then post NLE just creates new frames by interpolating to manufacture new frames. The quality of the interpolation is a function of many variables, so there is no pat answer.
 
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