JVC HM600 Sample Footage/Thoughts
Hi all,
I decided to start a new thread for this. I cut together a few clips that I shot on my new HM600 over the past couple of days. Excuse the amateur camera work, it's my first professional video camera (aside from my XA10) so I'm still getting used to all of the manual controls. Enjoy! I've also quoted some initial thoughts about the camera that I posted in my other thread: Quote:
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The long zoom starting at 1:22 and ending at 1:46 is impressive. I see some chromatic abberation on the automobile at full zoom. I know the camera was in full auto, but do you have any idea what the aperture was at that point? Did you have the ND filter engaged? Was the aperture full open? You said you were having trouble ingesting the .mp4 and .mov files. Is there a way you could post the native files from the camera for a 2 second clip in each format? I am interested how they work with my system. |
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I've uploaded some native clips, you should be able to download them from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b0xvpqw6p4od23c/TNhK3_liCp |
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.MP4 imports just fine in Premiere Pro CS6 also.
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Thanks for sharing Jody.
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Eric, I noticed the CA as well. Overall it looks a bit soft. It takes quite a while during zoom out before the softness and CA disappears. It almost looks like some of those zoomed in shots of the early/pre release version which JVC quickly fixed. |
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ffmpeg -i QUICKTIME_MPEG2.MOV -vcodec copy -acodec pcm_s16le -y source.mxf With the chromatic abberation, does it go away if you stop the lens down a little? |
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I'll get a few more zoomed in shots today and see if I can eliminate the softness and CA. edit: Here's another one. F3.2, 1/50, -6dB, ND 1/64, auto white balance, manual focus on the houses Quicktime MPEG2 compressed to H.264 MP4, 8mbit https://www.dropbox.com/s/jg4ushsxqxo2p15/ZoomTest.mp4 |
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Thanks for posting these Samples, Jody. Some observations:
The "CA" that can be seen on the white car and is also on the edges on the trees looks more like the bleed that will often happen on edges where over exposure is occurring. This is not chromatic aberration from the lens, but rather too much light triggering adjacent red and blue pixels. This can be fixed in post without too much trouble if it's troublesome, but I'm not sure anyone but us pixel-peepers will notice. Try to avoid using negative gain. The data from the sensor will still be clipped and would likely exaggerate the purple fringing. Looking at the Monarch butterfly clip, it looks like it can focus quite close. Regarding the noise test you posted earlier, as Noa said, a comparison is only meaningful if you get the brightness levels the same between the 2 cameras being tested. A small chip is less sensitive so the gain setting won't track. I examined a still frame from both and noticed that there is much poorer dynamic range and more obvious noise reduction on the XA10. |
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In the last scene of the pan of the river, it seems pretty soft, did you just have that out of focus. That lens seems awesome to me, except for some of that purple CA, Can that be taken out in post? Is it a pain to do. I'm close to pulling the trigger. Southerndude-USA |
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And not too sure about the CA, I haven't had much experience with it. Loving the camera so far though. My only concern is that it's a lot noisier in low light than I thought it would be. |
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Hmm, this is interesting.
I did a time lapse using the interval record function tonight. All manual settings, and manual focus. At the start of the time lapse, the focus was perfect. But as the sun went down and the sky got darker, the focus went soft. Focus was definitely set to manual. Any thoughts as to why this would happen? I'm at the beach tonight but will upload the video tomorrow. |
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Did you need to open the aperture as the recording progressed?
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