Camera-Man vs. Wild
The survival show Man vs. Wild follows outdoorsman Bear Grylls through some of the harshest environments on Earth. What may be more impressive, at least to those in the production biz, is that a cameraman is undergoing the same ordeals of climbing down waterfalls, jumping out of helicopters and swimming through rivers while still shooting. DP/Cameraman Simon Reay talks about battling the elements, devising a camera package and workflow that would withstand whatever Mother Nature throws at them, and how his job, like outdoor survival itself, essentially boils down to willpower. »

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Panasonic AG-HVX200
The era of having to buy or rent separate cameras for each type of production seems to be coming to an end. The Panasonic AG-HVX200 acts as the poster child for media convergence by placing the affordable »

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Panasonic AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2 Camcorder »

Post a (Very) Large P2 Project with Avid Unity ISIS and Avid Media Composer 3.0
The key to this workflow is making sure you’re in the correct project type for the step. To assign a tape name to P2 clips or transcode to Avid DNxHD, you must be in 1080 mode. To transcode to low-res, SD (NTSC) mode, and to relink to P2, you must be in 720 mode and set the raster type to DVCPro HD. »

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From Panasonic Web site, here are the Panasonic AG-HVX200 FAQ »

Panasonic has been a leader in developing video technologies for the production industry, including filmmaking, broadcasting and other professional applications. Now we have packed a wealth of our leading technologies into an exciting new camera-recorder. »

One of the fascinating and unique features of the new Panasonic AG-HVX200 is its ability to shoot with true variable frame rates. You can select from nearly a dozen speeds between 12 and 60 frames per second, giving you freedom to do things you could previously only do with a film camera—or, of course, the $70,000 VariCam.