This shoulder-mount camcorder delivers a unique combination of high-end features never offered in a camcorder in this genre, including production-quality 2/3″ progressive 3-CCDs, DVCPRO HD quality, multi HD and SD formats, variable frame rates, and four independent audio channels.
We shot the cast of Gossip Girl in character in order to send a wink to already crazed fans, but more importantly to let newer viewers know that it wasn’t too late to leap feet first into the show and to get intimate with the personalities inhabiting the show’s world.
On the show Styleyes, primarily shot using the Panasonic DVX100, we began our journey to going “tapeless.” Upon our adoption of Panasonic Hi-Def successor camera the HVX-200, we began to implement a tapeless workflow for real using P2 Card media. P2 ingest was good since we had an older Apple laptop with a PCMCIA bus that we directly inserted the cards into for download. However, when that box bit the dust, we were left to purchase and use the wee-bit wonky Duel Adapter.
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P2 (short form for “Professional Plug-In”) is a digital video storage media format introduced by Panasonic in 2004. BigCityPix first used the format for TreeHugger TV’s Vampire Power video. It features tapeless (non-linear) recording of
This camera is versatile and affordable way of shooting HD video while implementing a tapeless workflow. It comes functional with raft of frame-rate choices for slo-motion as well as formats such as 720 24p and 1080i, the later of which is not true 1080 but just the 720 converted on the fly. It supports solid-state P2 media as well as mini DV tape if you haven’t ditched it altogether as yet.
