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HaydenB

HaydenB

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Anyone that uses an HVX out there, do you know the latest firmware and or where I can download firmware. 8gb cards work fine but before I get a bigger card I wanna make sure they'll be compatible.
 
14304909:PondyCrew said:
sd too easy filming's gotta be a slight pain in the ass or its not fun
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lmao ok. those p2 files just suck so much ass trying to import and organize and label and shit.

and this is coming from someone who'd prefer the pain in the ass of develop/scan film or capturing tapes to the digi alternatives.
 
14304956:gravel said:
lmao ok. those p2 files just suck so much ass trying to import and organize and label and shit.

and this is coming from someone who'd prefer the pain in the ass of develop/scan film or capturing tapes to the digi alternatives.
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im converting about 40 min of tape I shot today and its hell. Need to use a mid 2011 HP laptop because it has a 4 pin firewire while my desktop that I edit on doesn't. 40 minutes to convert to digital, 40 minutes to export as an mp4 just so I can get it on my desktop. P2 bitrates will be higher, along with not needing to use firewire and go through usb 2.0 instead. Yeah an HMC is the goal, but getting an hvx for 250 bucks with 145 hours is a win in my book. Anything to get outta tape
 
14304974:PondyCrew said:
im converting about 40 min of tape I shot today and its hell. Need to use a mid 2011 HP laptop because it has a 4 pin firewire while my desktop that I edit on doesn't. 40 minutes to convert to digital, 40 minutes to export as an mp4 just so I can get it on my desktop. P2 bitrates will be higher, along with not needing to use firewire and go through usb 2.0 instead. Yeah an HMC is the goal, but getting an hvx for 250 bucks with 145 hours is a win in my book. Anything to get outta tape
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haha fr? that’s a dope come up. why you tryna get outta tape? i’m just starting to get into tape. shot 7 tapes on a dadcam this year and similarly had to use my 2012 macbook to capture them because it has the firewire port and i wasn’t about to buy multiple adapters for my newer macbook.
 
14304997:gravel said:
haha fr? that’s a dope come up. why you tryna get outta tape? i’m just starting to get into tape. shot 7 tapes on a dadcam this year and similarly had to use my 2012 macbook to capture them because it has the firewire port and i wasn’t about to buy multiple adapters for my newer macbook.
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I shot this whole last season on tape. Its not awful but its not fun. Definitely a good thing to experience. I just hate getting home from a long ass day of shooting then having to go through the pain of converting. I've had days where I've filled 2 60min tapes and have like 3 hours worth of running my cam to get them digitized when I get home. That and tapes not being made anymore its really not worth it. Expecting my HVX to still be a fun old cam while having the ease of p2. Can even shoot tape on it so I might torture myself with that every once in a while
 
14305026:PondyCrew said:
I shot this whole last season on tape. Its not awful but its not fun. Definitely a good thing to experience. I just hate getting home from a long ass day of shooting then having to go through the pain of converting. I've had days where I've filled 2 60min tapes and have like 3 hours worth of running my cam to get them digitized when I get home. That and tapes not being made anymore its really not worth it. Expecting my HVX to still be a fun old cam while having the ease of p2. Can even shoot tape on it so I might torture myself with that every once in a while
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true! i didn’t shoot as much skiing at spots so the tapes would last me a month usually. but i can imagine the nightmare of frying a tape in a day at a long spot. i had no idea the hvx could still do it to tapes. do you just record over your old tapes or do you use freshies? how many uses can you get outta one tape?
 
14305038:gravel said:
true! i didn’t shoot as much skiing at spots so the tapes would last me a month usually. but i can imagine the nightmare of frying a tape in a day at a long spot. i had no idea the hvx could still do it to tapes. do you just record over your old tapes or do you use freshies? how many uses can you get outta one tape?
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As a broke kid I usually get like 3 or 4 runs outta each tape. I use sony premiums and I've never had glitches from reusing a few times. Too much money if you're buying new ones constantly
 
14304974:PondyCrew said:
im converting about 40 min of tape I shot today and its hell. Need to use a mid 2011 HP laptop because it has a 4 pin firewire while my desktop that I edit on doesn't. 40 minutes to convert to digital, 40 minutes to export as an mp4 just so I can get it on my desktop. P2 bitrates will be higher, along with not needing to use firewire and go through usb 2.0 instead. Yeah an HMC is the goal, but getting an hvx for 250 bucks with 145 hours is a win in my book. Anything to get outta tape
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That’s a steal, props for going after it. What kinda lens are you using? I couldn’t remember if the hvx also had the 72mm filter size or not.
 
14305182:weastcoast said:
That’s a steal, props for going after it. What kinda lens are you using? I couldn’t remember if the hvx also had the 72mm filter size or not.
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It's got an 82, using a step down ring and a spacer for a 72mm opteka, might get a 58mm in the future though for some hd 4:3
 
14304956:gravel said:
lmao ok. those p2 files just suck so much ass trying to import and organize and label and shit.

and this is coming from someone who'd prefer the pain in the ass of develop/scan film or capturing tapes to the digi alternatives.
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See I wanted a HVX until I found out how big of a pain P2 cards can be
 
14307578:WoFlowz said:
See I wanted a HVX until I found out how big of a pain P2 cards can be
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After shooting tape this last season, I can honestly say p2 is just as easy to use as an sd card
 
14307642:PondyCrew said:
After shooting tape this last season, I can honestly say p2 is just as easy to use as an sd card
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Do you have IMovie or Final Cut Pro? Because I read that using P2 with I movie isn’t doable for some reason
 
14307642:PondyCrew said:
After shooting tape this last season, I can honestly say p2 is just as easy to use as an sd card
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there's no way it is.

i don't have an HVX but was using my friend's HVX footy this year that came off a P2 card. that shit sucks, you need to leave everything in the CONTENTS folder to import it to premiere, can't change the clip names in finder, only in premiere, audio and video tracks are separated so you can't ever preview video with sound, there are 2 audio tracks instead of 1 which just makes the editing itself more cumbersome. i'm not sure if there are different generations of the P2 footy that make it more streamlined but if not it's a huge waste of time and is organizationally confusing. it doesn't make sense to compare it to sd cards, sd card footy is so easy to work with in comparison.
 
14307685:WoFlowz said:
Do you have IMovie or Final Cut Pro? Because I read that using P2 with I movie isn’t doable for some reason
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I use premiere, but I would think any software you can import clip folders into would work. iMovie may not be able to play .MXF files. For Premiere though its literally as easy as plugging camera in through its usb and copying the contents folder onto your computer.
 
14307703:gravel said:
there's no way it is.

i don't have an HVX but was using my friend's HVX footy this year that came off a P2 card. that shit sucks, you need to leave everything in the CONTENTS folder to import it to premiere, can't change the clip names in finder, only in premiere, audio and video tracks are separated so you can't ever preview video with sound, there are 2 audio tracks instead of 1 which just makes the editing itself more cumbersome. i'm not sure if there are different generations of the P2 footy that make it more streamlined but if not it's a huge waste of time and is organizationally confusing. it doesn't make sense to compare it to sd cards, sd card footy is so easy to work with in comparison.
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I get great sound on playback? Tb to last season when I had to manually align my audio with the video cause something would get fucked up with the tape. I just made a separate folder for HVX files on my hdd and I couldn't be happier just being able to drag clips straight into premiere from there and start editing. Once everything's copied, just format the card and your good to go again.
 
14307713:PondyCrew said:
I get great sound on playback? Tb to last season when I had to manually align my audio with the video cause something would get fucked up with the tape. I just made a separate folder for HVX files on my hdd and I couldn't be happier just being able to drag clips straight into premiere from there and start editing. Once everything's copied, just format the card and your good to go again.
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it could just be my own process, i am fairly meticulous about my organization and when i work on a big project i like to have hella folders full of the clips and have em all renamed, labeled, categorized. it is really easy with .mov and sd card files, but i can't use the process with the HVX .mxf footy at all (and i've used other .mxf footy that works good, it's not just the packaging codec itself). but i never am importing straight from my camera to premiere, i always have a heirarchy that i organize first before going into the editing program. so that might be why it is much more of a pain in the ass for me.
 
14304956:gravel said:
lmao ok. those p2 files just suck so much ass trying to import and organize and label and shit.

and this is coming from someone who'd prefer the pain in the ass of develop/scan film or capturing tapes to the digi alternatives.
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yo sorry im late to the thread lol

but does anyone have a good way of organizing p2 files?
 
14328532:WoFlowz said:
Yeah prices are a bit fucked rn
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might upgrade in a few years but have heard some great stuff about the dvx100b so im very excited to do some filming with mine. btw what camera do you use?
 
14328534:SkiPigeon123 said:
might upgrade in a few years but have heard some great stuff about the dvx100b so im very excited to do some filming with mine. btw what camera do you use?
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Just bought a HMC40 but before used a GoPro and a Nikon d5300
 
14328294:Eric_Jewan said:
yo sorry im late to the thread lol

but does anyone have a good way of organizing p2 files?
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Not really lol I usually just create a new folder with either the date or what I was filming then copy everything into that
 
is anyone here in the market batteries for the hmc because I have a genuine Panasonic VW-VBG6 its in good condition I bought it for 60 didn't use it so Its up for grabs at 60$

**This post was edited on Oct 5th 2021 at 7:54:11pm
 
14328637:SkiPigeon123 said:
is anyone here in the market batteries for the hmc because I have a genuine Panasonic VW-VBG6 its in good condition I bought it for 60 didn't use it so Its up for grabs at 60$

**This post was edited on Oct 5th 2021 at 7:54:11pm
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or lower im willing to negotiate
 
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