Tape playback from other cameras.

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scobee

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Here's a question that only the geniuses at DVXUser could answer.
I'm involved in a project that has been shot on 2 different cameras...a DVX100A and a Sony HVR-Z1u. The cameraman for the Sony footage wants to send me the HDV tapes he used for his section of the shoot. As I don't own any High Def playback units (and don't have any resource where I live to get one), I mentioned it may be better for him to capture the footage and send it to me on a hard disk.
Now the big question...He said that the HDV tapes will playback fine in the DVX !?
Is this possible??? Seemed pretty unlikely, but I thought I'd pose the question here. I'd have him send the tapes and just try it, if I wasn't afraid of damaging the tapes or - even worse - my precious DVX.
 
I'm not a DVX genius, however my knowledge of HDV is that it can shoot onto regular old miniDV tapes. At my school we have some crappy JVC HDV cameras, use miniDV to shoot, but DO require HDV decks to capture them. I haven't tried capturing that stuff with my own DVX as I don't want to mix the tape stock. I think the safest bet would be to have him send you a hard disk version.
 
DerrickTempleton said:
I'm not a DVX genius, however my knowledge of HDV is that it can shoot onto regular old miniDV tapes. At my school we have some crappy JVC HDV cameras, use miniDV to shoot, but DO require HDV decks to capture them. I haven't tried capturing that stuff with my own DVX as I don't want to mix the tape stock. I think the safest bet would be to have him send you a hard disk version.
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Yea I'm a bit leery about it myself. I guess I'll try to get him to either send a HD or DVD's
 
It depends on what format he shot his tapes on. The Sony Z1 is capable of also shooting regular DV footage as well.

If he shot actual HDV then no it shouldn't play back on the 100.
 
HDV can't be played back on the DVX. Hell, from what I've heard, you can't play Sony HDV with a Canon HDV camera (and vise versa).
 
Thanks a million for the input guys! I think I'm gonna stick with the tried and true "put it on a DVD and ship it" method. Won't get it uncompressed (without getting 20 dvd's), but I know it will work!
 
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