Sure, I'd like to help. Please email me privately for details.

Thanks Alex!

Interesting deal at JVC.com
 

Check out this wild deal at JVC!

Buy a (list price) $13,000 HD projector, get a free HD1! Wow...

heath

Is there a site with a list of all software and hardware support for HDV
 

Is there a site with a list of all the software and hardware supporters for the HDV format (besides the JVC 3rd party page which is only partially complete).


Thanks

Dwight,

This site lists HDV supporters:

http://www.hdv-info.org/

And to give a little plug to our special HDV site, click on over to here.

heath

Stuck pixel
 

Well, it took 2 months for my HD10 to develop a stuck pixel. I've seen reports here about stuck pixels which will appear as a bright green dot on the footage and that's exactly how it appears on my footage. So my question is: has anybody had JVC to service their camera for this particular problem? Did they take care of it and if, then how fast?

stuck pixel
 

I had that very same problem. I had to return mine to Japan cuz I bought it there. They were really helpful, but unfortunately they could not fix it so they just replaced it with another camera. I was lucky it was still under warranty. I wonder if this is an onging problem for the HD1 users? Hope you can get a replacement too.

Good Microphone for HD1 ?
 

I will go in a Photo Safari in Africa pretty soon and I need a decent microphone since the one on the HD1 is so bad.

What you guys can suggest to me? I would like to preserve stereo although at the mean time I'd like to record lions and other animals. I'm really in doubt here, please help.

Thanks !
Gabriele

audio technica 822 will attach to the shoe, plug directly into the mic jack and provide great stereo

I borrowed a friends Audio Technica 822 several years ago, and was very impressed. I recently bought one, unable to find anything comparable for the money. It has XLR connector with adapter to plug directly into camcorder, as well as cable to split it into separate lo-Z (1/4") plugs. A standard XLR mike extension cable can be used with the provided adapter to use the mike away from the camera - in stereo even!

I was happy, I'm even happier !
 

I was very happy since I bought my HD1, I kept the output at 1080i in order to avoid compatibility problem with many TV. Recently though I went to a friend's home, he has a DLP TV from Samsung and the quality wasn't too good with the HD1. Since the DLP has a native resolution of 720P I switched to no-conversion and the quality became just INCREDIBLE. Evidently the double passage of up-conversion and down-conversion wasn't doing too good.
Today I decided to try on my Panasonic RPTV. I never tested at 720P since my Panasonic has native support for 720P but it was never used at such resolution and the convergence was totally out for millimeters on each gun.
I patiently spent two hours trying to make the best possible convergence at the native 720P and I finally attacched the HD1. WOW what a quality. THe resolution and the color dept increased 20-30% . Evidently the internal upscaler is OK but not outstanding. From now on I will always see my tapes at 720P. I could have done this before but my HDTV STB convert everything at 1080i so the few programs at 720 are actually visualized at 1080. Too bad newer TV don't support real native 720P anymore while the DLPs do support it but at the expenses of 1080i...

Gabriele

Gabriele,

I have found the same thing on my Sanyo PLV-Z2 and DVHS or HD1 camera attached. If there is a setting in the equipment to put it to 720P, then that is definitely the way to go for the quality!

D-terminal to DVI adapter?
 

Anyone know if one exists? I just got a dvd that has dvi out and it gives a great image. Just wondering if anyone makes an adapter for JVC's d-terminal cable from the HD-1 to a DVI.

Cheers

Will,

There aren't any component to DVI convertors that I'm aware of. Typically there would be some type of 'transcoding' involved because DVI is digital and has a different 'colorspace' than analog component video (which is what the D-Terminal output is).

You could do a component (D-Terminal) to VGA to DVI conversion, but you'd probably lose some resolution and color clarity in the process.

The camera uses firewire as it's digital connection and there are a lot of components out there that can accept and or convert this format to analog component such as the Samsung SIR-T165 and the JVC HM-DH3000/DH40000 D-VHS VCRs and the LG LST-3410a HD recorder. This option would run you at minimum about $400-$500 dollars.

A lot of newer HDTVs accept firewire natively and will display the 720p signal in 1080i in it's digital format and some will actually display it natively at 720p (the RCA and Sony DLP & LCD HDTVs). Some of these sets include ones from Mitisubishi, Pioneer, RCA & Sony.

My Mits set has the capability to be upgraded to accept a firewire connection but it would cost me $1000! I could probably sell my old set and use that money towards a newer Mits with firewire and still come out ahead vs spending $1000 for the upgrade.

Hope this helps.

Troy

Thanks Troy for the info. I guess what ever I do it will cost me a bunch of coin. Not really worth it for a nominal improvement.

Thanks again!

Notes on controlling HD10 Lighting and Exposure
 

Hi,

I just finished shooting and editing a PR video for a new recording artist. Here are some short notes on what I've learned from shooting with the HD10.

1) We shot outdoors in bright sunlight, under overcast and indoors. We overcome the lack of Manual exposure control using
ND filters. We set the camera to manual shutter speed Mode and the shutter speed to 1/60 in most cases. Then enough ND filters are added so that the shutter is forced open to the neighborhood of F2.0-F4. This does not give direct control but it limits the range of F stop to a known amount. Obviously by moving the lights back away from the subject you can get the same effect indoors (force the auto aperture open to F2 or F4) without using ND filters indoors.

2) This decreases depth of field and forces the viewer's eye to focus in the focused plane where my main subject resides. We got a nice depth of field effect outdoors by keeping the camera zoomed to medium or longer focal length and keeping the camera further away from the subject. With the tiny CCD chip in these cameras middle to wide angle focal length makes everything in focus from nearly the front of lens to infinity which is irritating because of lack of control over focus.

3) Overall the colors seem less saturated than a 3 chip camera, but outdoors with overcast clouds the colors seem more saturated in a way that reminds me of some 16mm film stocks.

4) Shooting indoors this camera seems to crush some black values and also some highlight values even if you are careful with clothing and skin colors in the shot & how you light them. But this played to our advantage shooting indoors in a tiny recording studio.

The singer was facing into a silver recording studio mic with textured black sound absorbing panels on the wall behind her.
In the tiny studio I lit her face with a single lowel softlight for key and used a hard Tyvek reflector for fill light to soften the shadows.

I angled the softlight down to lessen light falling on the black wall behind her. I found myself wishing I had brought french flags to shield the wall behind her from the light and give a black limbo lighting effect. In the LCD the black textured walls looked a very ugly gray.

Surprise. When we edited the video, in almost all the shots the recording studio walls looked almost dead black like the limbo effect I wanted.

In this case the HD-10's limited contrast range gave an awesome look. If I had wanted the walls to be visible, I would have to dump more light on them, or use a different color background wall.

5) Setting the manual shutter speed to 1/30 gives a very cool motion blur that reminds me of film. This looks great shooting low light sources at night. You have to be careful to use a tripod and pan or tilt slowly like with film.

6) We used the tripod or Steady Tracker gizmo for everything. But some hand held shots, looked very cool. For this I zoomed wide, got close to the subject to minimize the unsteadyness of handheld, and moved the camera slowly around the subject to give that cool 3D look of the moving camera. The steady tracker shots looked good, but I am praying that the next project has a large enough budget for dolly & grip truck rental.

7) Naturally we shoot only overcast conditions or put a scrim over the subjects head to soften the sunlight and contrast for close ups. When trapped in direct sunlight conditions, we put the sun
behind the subject to act like a back light. Then we fill the face with sunlight from Tyvek hard reflectors (Hardware store $ 7.00).

8) Another cool effect is to have 1 hard reflector on the face from a distance, scrim overhead to lessen contrast in direct sun, plus another hard reflector behind the subject to give a slightly exaggerated backlight effect, which looks very nice for a woman with long hair.

Ed Hill

This type of info is whakes this forum so great.

Thanks for taking time to type these informational goodies (being a newbie , I really love it)

I did an HD wedding yesterday and found when I used the "backlight" button on the HD10 it made my overcast skyed Bride shots in a Gazebo come alive and with all the white surounding her it made her face look surreal, I was really impressed everytime I hit that button

Edit control cable for HD10
 

Does anyone know if JVC's "edit control cable" is the same as Sony's LANC? In other words, would I be able to hook the edit control cable to a Sony DV deck's LANC input and perform cuts between camera and deck? Or is this some proprietary thing that only works with other JVC equipment?

JVC uses Jlip.
Do a search in this forum and you can check out Jlip specifics.

JVC HDV football blimp cam
 

http://www.pluginz.com/news/2162?

Article links to JVC site for more pics.

Come on Ken,

Don't you know by now that HDV (i.e., HD encoded at a "low" bit-rate of 19 or 25Mbps) isn't "real" HD?

:)

I'm being sarcastic of course.

I've always thought the HDCAM and DVCPROHD formats were overkill when your final destination is going to be HDTV.

As a film alternative (i.e., going to the big screen), HDCAM and DVCPROHD are obviously superior to HDV, but for HDTV they are pretty close to being equal (in terms of format, obviously the Varicam and Cinealta are better cameras than the HD10 for many other reasons).

Anyway, thanks for the update.

Oh yeah, I wonder if this means networks like HDNET and DiscoveryHD will lift their informal "ban" on HD10 originated footage? I've heard those networks will reject HD10 footage, although if I submitted something I would just tell them it was 720p and give it to them on HDCAM and not tell them what I shot it on :)

Ben

Yes I know it wasn't shot on HD10's but I thought it interesting and groundbreaking, being it was the first time it was done.
JVC has been promoting a complete to broadcast mpeg2 solution of which the DM-JV600U high definition (HD) MPEG-2 encoder and DM-4600UC 4:2:0-4:2:2 MPEG-2 decoder are front and center. My point is that the 720p HD10 is a good fit for the future.

"Oh yeah, I wonder if this means networks like HDNET and DiscoveryHD will lift their informal "ban" on HD10 originated footage? I've heard those networks will reject HD10 footage, although if I submitted something I would just tell them it was 720p and give it to them on HDCAM and not tell them what I shot it on :)"

Exactly. What they don't know won't hurt them ;>)
I don't know of any broadcast stations that accept submissions on miniDV tapes. Give it to them on the format they demand and there won't be a problem. Although I wouldn't go in braging it was done on a HD10 as your work will be prejudged out of contention. Collect the fat cheque then shove it in their face :)

Can CU VH1u serve as external monitor on Crane?
 

I am welding together an aluminum framed crane and am to the point where I need the monitor stand figured out .

I think the only way to accomplish this would be firewire if its possible at all but I have found no settings on camera or VH1 that would need to be set for this to happen.

Anybody try this?

Well the camera certainly outputs a real-time signal through the firewire port - for example a firewire-equipped PC laptop running VLC software works fine as an external monitor.

So the issue will be whether the VH1u (which I'm not familiar with) can display that signal.

Use Optical Image stabilizer on crane shots?
 

I made a 13' pan and tilt crane last week

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=31905 (with footage)

and have been shooting a project the last 2 nights and forgot all about OIS on the HD10u which I had set to ON but the manual says to turn this OFF when using tripods, has anyone found the best results when using a crane with this camcorder or holding it out the window of a car or any other thing simulating the camera moving in a pan situation where the camera itself is panning and not the tripod?

My footage looks good but I want great if thats possible and using the CU VH1 as a monitor is not the best playback device because everything looks great on it because its so dinky. Any other advice with crane shots concerning the HD10 and its various "tendencies" would be appreciated.

If no one knows then I guess I will experiment tonight and report back, if anyone is interested

My first instinct would be to turn it off, because when the OIS is on while sitting on a tripod, the image is almost like moving water, if that makes sense. It's more apparent on a Canon XL-1 for me.

BUT, cranes can sometimes be a little shakey, esp. the cheap ones like my friend uses. Maybe do experiments with the OIS on and off, and tell us what your image looked like.

heath

'Nothing Comes Close' movie shot with HD10U
 

Hey guys, check this out! Also, make sure you click on the images to the right of the article....they're huge, but worth the download. This film looks like it had LOTS of motion, so I'd really like to see it!

Interesting quote from the article:

".....the images recorded by the JY-HD10 camcorder were converted by Lumiere to MPEG2, and dropped into Final Cut Pro, which in turn scaled the images up to a full 1080p. This final output was compatible with the main timeline edit. The movie was edited on a Mac G5 dual 1.8GHz with two HUGE raid systems totaling 1.2 terabytes."

http://www.jvcpro.co.uk/news/release...releaseID=1158

Murph

New PDF file about the HD10U
 

I've never seen this PDF file before, so I'm posting it here...it's about 5 megs, and contains a full article and information about editing in various OS's. Worth a look!

http://www.jvcpro.co.uk/getResource?id=4922

Murph

This is Great.

Maybe Doug will put us a link fro download?

by the way, why its cropped to 2:35 ?

it was shoot with an adaptor?

ciao

Murph,

This is very old: November 2003.

As you know, editing on the Mac has largely improved since then. ;)

Frederic

JVC joins Blu-Ray
 

Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. (JVC) has joined the Blu-ray Disc Association, the company and association said in a statement issued on Monday.

http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/12/jvc/index.php

Lots happening lately...

Murph

Who would be interested in this....DVD
 

Chris has approved this post on the FX1, so I thought I'd put it here too.

I'm thinking of building a DVD of sample footage that would contain:

HD1 vx FX1 in Side by Side tests
FX1 vs XL2 in side by side tests

FX1 in it's various frame rates shooting several subjects - skin tone, wide angle, detail, close up, poor light, outdoor, etc.

XL2 in it's various frame rates, shooting severl subjects, as above.
In short something that would be 10-12 minutes in length in SD on a DVD - BUT contain the original files for you to view in their native formats on the DVD.

We sell it for $14.95 plus $5.00 shipping for a total of $19.95. You would be welcome to a $10.00 rebate on the release of our future products on the XL2 and the FX1.

If you would be interested in this - or want to make a suggestion, please email me at dkelly@masterworks.bc.ca.

I just thought this might be a help, and if enough people are interested, we would produce it in the next 7 days and get it out fast. I don't see it as a huge money maker, but a service to our community of users and enthusists.

I await your input.

Cheers

DBK

Leave your responses in the following thread:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=34434

Thank you!

Just watched a FTA digital documentary made with JVC PD1s
 

Well..... Imagine my surprise to turn on the HD 'giggle box' and find an Aussie nature documentary (Wild Adventures) very obviously made in large part with the PAL version of the JVC camcorder. The presenter was constantly shooting with one in hand and shots of the vehicle rig showed at least another set up for tripod shooting.

I was surprised to see that a 'local' had decided the negative hype (not true 'Broadcast Quality', HDV artifacting etc etc Blah, blah.... blah), was worth ignoring.

I'm sure the run of the mill punter in the viewing audience would have been impressed with the nature footage they saw in the documentary, because they'd be blissfully ignorant of the prejudice being shown by a few self-professed gurus of the video communication medium.

Also brave of the unknown channel 9 Sydney programmer for showing something shot with a cam that video gear rental houses here classify as 'an inconsequential and incapable camcorder'.

A news station in Tampa had a Creative Services producer putting an ad or two on the air shot on the HD10 last year and earlier this year.

I shot some stuff for a non-news local station from the HD10 and downconverted to DV.

heath

HD waveform monitor for HD10U?
 

Anybody ever try to use an HD waveform monitor for their HD10U? Which one do you recommend? From what I understand, the component out on the camera is analog and shows the footage at 480/30p, so does this mean I can get away with using an SD waveform monitor with component input?

The component out is 480p60 uncompressed or 720p30 with compression.

HD10U Short Movie - triggerstreet
 

Hello there,

Everyone who wants to check out a short-movie i did with mine JVC-HD10U, go to WWW.TRIGGERSTREET.COM and look for ADULT CONTEMPORARY. the short was chosen for the site festival selection.

thanks a lot for everything, you people do help me a lot, this short was made with this site support.

ciao

JVC HD1 for shooting surfing?
 

Have any of you shot surfing with this camera? Im concern about the 30p and the wave's movement, along with the panning while zoomed. Please advice me. I can edit HD and also view HD. My vids, however, will most likely end up in DVD. Im an amateur in Hawaii. I've thought about the VX2100, specially after viewing "Cheap Thrills", whjch was shot with the VX. Looked incredible, although not HD. However, HD is very tempting. I've viewed some clips on a Japanese site from the JVC, looked amazing, film-like (30p?), but the shooter barely panned and there wasn't much action.