I went to see AG-HVX200 in person today at InterBEE

Walter S. Chelliah · November 17th, 2005, 07:47 PM

Yeah, that's what I figured.

It sure does seem to be a fast conversion process on that P2 video. That is good news.

Thanks again Barry.

Kaku Ito · November 17th, 2005, 08:21 PM

As Barry says, it was "import" command to bring in the files.

Kaku Ito · November 17th, 2005, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Mann Z.

i meant the hvx lcd screen when recording, all the screen shot i have seen have been of the clip review screen, i was wondering what the layout looks like...

anywas goodnight and thanks for the feedback...

I see. I do have footage me playing around the camera and my staff shot video of that. I was debating to broadcast that because my english is so horrible. But I guess I will make a clip swallowing the embarrasment.
It does have a lot of information on the screen, I liked it.

Kaku Ito · November 17th, 2005, 11:43 PM

My encoding had to hold off because my staff had to give demos.

I'm going to InterBEE for the last minutes to take some still shots of other products.

I will post the video and stills later tonight.

Steven Thomas · November 17th, 2005, 11:55 PM

Thank you for the updates Kaku-san!
You're information is very helpful

あなたに感謝しなさい

Steve

Chris Hurd · November 17th, 2005, 11:58 PM

As always Kaku if you need extra hosting space for video clips just call on me. Much appreciated,

Kaku Ito · November 18th, 2005, 09:06 AM

Here's the link to my blog and I uploaded the clip of taking a closer look at AG-HVX200. Please excuse my horrible English on the clip.

Kaku Ito · November 18th, 2005, 09:17 AM

I checked with Panaosnic person today that 4GB on P2 card can be transfered entirely around 2 minutes and 30 seconds. He said it depends on what kind of video is on the data. More movement intensive footage might take little longer (I guess this is because it has to convert to bring them on Mac).

And they are aiming the shipping date in Japan around December 20th.

Robert Mann Z. · November 18th, 2005, 10:11 AM

i tried to download the video but your registration process is impossible for me to accomplish, for whatever reason these pop up boxes pop up and are unreadble by me so i'mnot even sure what i'm doing wrong, any way you can send it to Chris for an upload on his site...

thanks...

Marty Hudzik · November 18th, 2005, 10:17 AM

Having trouble getting these files also. I only got to see your first file because someone else shared it on a different server. Let us know how to get these.

Thanks!

Nevermind...finally got the confirmatiion email!!!!

Kaku Ito · November 18th, 2005, 10:17 AM

Robert,

It is because you are providing invalid email address? It requires validating process with a valid email address.

Marty Hudzik · November 18th, 2005, 10:44 AM

Kaku,
Thanks for the video. It showed us some nice stuff. The LCD looked very cluttered and I was wondering 2 things.

1)was that the 4x3 guide that looked liked 2 vertical lines on the left and right side of the image? IF so it seemed very prominent.

2)that you could find, was there an option of turning off all of the overlays for a clean LCD?

One of the big selling points of PANA staying with the 4x3 LCD was that all the information was above and below the 16x9 area thus leaving the image uncluttered. I came away from your video thinking "damn that looked cluttered"!!

Any thoughts on this? thanks again
Marty

Kaku Ito · November 18th, 2005, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marty Hudzik

1)was that the 4x3 guide that looked liked 2 vertical lines on the left and right side of the image? IF so it seemed very prominent.

2)that you could find, was there an option of turning off all of the overlays for a clean LCD?

One thing I noticed that the LCD looks smaller than what I used to, FX1.

The two lines seems to be guide for 4x3 frame guide.

When you say cluttered, yeah, it's cluttered. I just thought, yeah, lot of information, but I was more hyped than being calm.

I will send email to Panasonic person in the development team asking about the switch for the overlays. I'm pretty sure they do.

Also, some information from Sumi's DVXFan page that Panasonic could not make the zoom act the same as DVC30 at the slow speed. From the users used to DVC30 felt that HVX200 did not provide super slow zoom ring behavior.

Kaku Ito · November 18th, 2005, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Mann Z.

i tried to download the video but your registration process is impossible for me to accomplish, for whatever reason these pop up boxes pop up and are unreadble by me so i'mnot even sure what i'm doing wrong, any way you can send it to Chris for an upload on his site...

thanks...

Robert,

I added a photo to the article so you can see the LCD screen. Click it to enlarge.

Now, 2:15am and I have to do interview shooting of Japanese 2005 downhill champion from Honda Racing Team, so I'm going to sleep. Good night.

Thomas Smet · November 18th, 2005, 01:15 PM

What about workflows for other non NLE products such as After Effects, Combustion and Shake? As far as I know no current graphics, animation or compositing program can load MXF files. Does this mean for us VFX people that all footage shot on the HVX200 will have to be converted to DVCPRO HD quicktime or uncompressed HD in order for us to do our FX work? Hopefully Apple will add native MXF support built inside of Quicktime so then it will become universal for every program based on quicktime.

November 17th, 2005, 11:58 PM	#21
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November 18th, 2005, 09:17 AM	#23
Kaku Ito Trustee Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Posts: 1,382	additional more precise information I checked with Panaosnic person today that 4GB on P2 card can be transfered entirely around 2 minutes and 30 seconds. He said it depends on what kind of video is on the data. More movement intensive footage might take little longer (I guess this is because it has to convert to bring them on Mac). And they are aiming the shipping date in Japan around December 20th.

November 18th, 2005, 10:44 AM	#27
Marty Hudzik Trustee Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canton, Ohio Posts: 1,771	LCD cluttered? Kaku, Thanks for the video. It showed us some nice stuff. The LCD looked very cluttered and I was wondering 2 things. 1)was that the 4x3 guide that looked liked 2 vertical lines on the left and right side of the image? IF so it seemed very prominent. 2)that you could find, was there an option of turning off all of the overlays for a clean LCD? One of the big selling points of PANA staying with the 4x3 LCD was that all the information was above and below the 16x9 area thus leaving the image uncluttered. I came away from your video thinking "damn that looked cluttered"!! Any thoughts on this? thanks again Marty

November 17th, 2005, 07:47 PM	#16
Walter S. Chelliah Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 66	Yeah, that's what I figured. It sure does seem to be a fast conversion process on that P2 video. That is good news. Thanks again Barry.

November 17th, 2005, 08:21 PM	#17
Kaku Ito Trustee Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Posts: 1,382	As Barry says, it was "import" command to bring in the files.

November 17th, 2005, 11:43 PM	#19
Kaku Ito Trustee Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Posts: 1,382	My encoding had to hold off because my staff had to give demos. I'm going to InterBEE for the last minutes to take some still shots of other products. I will post the video and stills later tonight.

November 17th, 2005, 11:55 PM	#20
Steven Thomas Trustee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Gilbert, AZ Posts: 1,896	Thank you for the updates Kaku-san! You're information is very helpful あなたに感謝しなさい Steve

November 18th, 2005, 09:06 AM	#22
Kaku Ito Trustee Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Posts: 1,382	Here's the link to my blog and I uploaded the clip of taking a closer look at AG-HVX200. Please excuse my horrible English on the clip.

November 18th, 2005, 10:11 AM	#24
Robert Mann Z. Skyonic New York Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NYC Posts: 614	i tried to download the video but your registration process is impossible for me to accomplish, for whatever reason these pop up boxes pop up and are unreadble by me so i'mnot even sure what i'm doing wrong, any way you can send it to Chris for an upload on his site... thanks...

November 18th, 2005, 10:17 AM	#25
Marty Hudzik Trustee Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canton, Ohio Posts: 1,771	Having trouble getting these files also. I only got to see your first file because someone else shared it on a different server. Let us know how to get these. Thanks! Nevermind...finally got the confirmatiion email!!!!

November 18th, 2005, 01:15 PM	#30
Thomas Smet Trustee Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 1,719	What about workflows for other non NLE products such as After Effects, Combustion and Shake? As far as I know no current graphics, animation or compositing program can load MXF files. Does this mean for us VFX people that all footage shot on the HVX200 will have to be converted to DVCPRO HD quicktime or uncompressed HD in order for us to do our FX work? Hopefully Apple will add native MXF support built inside of Quicktime so then it will become universal for every program based on quicktime.