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Hi, welcome to our forums! ... sick of Mini DV tapes and the real time transfer to my Mac Pro Have you been using FCP till now? FWIW, I too will be doing some kind of an upgrade shortly... as I have tested Final Cut Pro X and will probably switch to an iMac soon. Although my cams still are HDV, and ...

This seems quite fine to me. I have an FX7, really similar in settings. You can choose in the menu what is the function assigned to the front dial (wheel). Stay in auto exposure, assign the wheel to EXPOSURE (not IRIS). This way, you can switch to manual exposure with one single push on the button, ...

drdoolittle wrote:Do you guys know if there is an adaptor which which allow the connection of a female 4-pin firewire port to a male mini HDMI connector?

There's no Firewire-to-HDMI adapter to my knowledge. It's not an electrical connection issue, the data formats are altogether different.

Hey, Happy New Year to you too!

Fairly nice shots, I'd say! :-)

PAHDCTM900 The HDC-TM900, and the HDC-TM700 that it replaced, have been highly regarded and providing great value for the money. A 3-CMOS camcorder (comparable to Sony's FX7) in a small body for $600, wow I wouldn't settle for anything less. But I wouldn't take still pictures with a camcorder. Thes...

Hey everybody,

I wish you a happy Holiday Season! Have a nice time (and good rest if any) with family and friends!

Cheers,
Stephan

[Moved this topic to the Large Sensor camcorders forum] Do I want as big an Apperture as possible or will that take away the sharpness of the firework, would i be better off having a higher gain say 15 and a smaller apperture about f8? Hi, regarding the Aperture vs. Gain trade-off, you may need som...

hdmickey wrote:When you say, choose high definition, or motion, but I can't have both at the same time, what do you mean?

Meaning that it's hard to have both at the same time. With too much motion you lose some definition. With a still camera, you retain the crisp high def.

[...] but most importantly, no blur during horizontal recordings. I was disappointed with pans and any motion in general. I never figured out whether it was an issue of shutter speed, or like Steve said once I seem to remember, maybe more probably an issue of MPEG2 codec that needs to reduce effect...

philsfilm wrote:I would but I don't know how to do it on this site.

Hi, you can attach a picture to your post. Go for the Upload attachment option right below the textbox where you're writing. Size limitations are specified in the Forum FAQ.