Epic Timeline

[Gunleik Groven]

HDV is underrated as a format in my opinion. It's pretty darn good for what it is.

Sure. I just never got very friendly with it, and then - all of a sudden - I didn't have to.

As I mentioned, I think Panasonic (successfully) oversold the HVX by a huge margin. Maybe I did the wrong choice back then, it still worked well for me...

Not spending much time critisizing HDV these days... -

 

[R. Schorman]

You can see their popularity is still high by doing a quick search on Ebay. They are still going for $700.00+ which I think is amazing considering that they came out in what, 1996?!hmy:

Action sports is driving the market for vx1000's still. It has been the skateboard industry standard for 15 years. I only recently sold mine and had been using it up until the end of 2009. I still love the look of it over almost anything. Sure it was aliasy but the color rendition has not been matched since. Call me crazy...

Forever it was vx1000 + Century MK1 fisheye

 

[James McLellan]

I had the fortune of avoiding HDV myself. However I am continually being foiled by consumer AVCHD.

In the thick of DV I had gotten frustrated that not every tape could be captured off of every camera. That you needed to stick with the same brands when possible. Little did I realize that compatibility issues were going to get worse.

Now I yearn for another universal intra frame codec...

On that note, why won't the manufacturers have dv as an option to record to the solid state cards? They are certainly fast enough by now. Always long gop.

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

Although an old dude for around here (53), I came to the game with a Panasonic HVX-200. Man that thing was impressive for the time. We were going to shoot our first film on that pup with a 35mm adapter, and then I read about RED. I put down my deposits and hoped for the best.

The film was delayed a year while we were working on the script, so we actually were able to shoot Works in Progress on #791 and #1256.

Now we're shooting our second film, Termina, using an M-X. I'm sorry I won't be around for a third film to be shot on Epic Monstro. We are going to call it quits after this one. It's just too hard to go down that Hollywood-quality-for-a-quarter-of-a-million-bucks road again.

Stephen