VX1000 General Discussion (gear/set-ups, filming/editing, tips/advice, etc.)

[globe fusion]

thanks for the replies.

i didnt get it to work on QT or lifeflix. i have a feeling its due to all the cables and adapters.

got it working on QT on an older MacBook.

I'm considering swapping the datavideo for the HVR-MRC1 for the fact that the HVR-MRC1 can import clips from the memory card directly.

[linty]

How many of you vx users have a piece of foam between the mic and the camera body? Is it out of necessity or something you picked up from other filmers?

[turbo 2.0]

How many of you vx users have a piece of foam between the mic and the camera body? Is it out of necessity or something you picked up from other filmers?

Necessary? No. Helpful? Yes.

[somethingmustbreaknow]

it's to avoid snapping of the microphone / microphone sagging.
i only put some foam between there when in storage/in the bag.

[linty]

it's to avoid snapping of the microphone / microphone sagging.
i only put some foam between there when in storage/in the bag.

Might jinx myself by typing this out but I've never experienced microphone sagging or gotten a board to the mic. I was just wondering if I've missed out on something essential all these years.

[mattchew]

it's to avoid snapping of the microphone / microphone sagging.
i only put some foam between there when in storage/in the bag.

Same. Way less worried about an errant board hitting it while filming than some dumb bullshit happening while it’s in the bag and just getting crushed.

[donkey]

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it's to avoid snapping of the microphone / microphone sagging.
i only put some foam between there when in storage/in the bag.

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Same. Way less worried about an errant board hitting it while filming than some dumb bullshit happening while it’s in the bag and just getting crushed.

one of my biggest OCD triggers (and one reason why i really hated the VX) was that i could never shake the feeling that the microphone would break off from someone leaning on my camera bag or just something causing it to snap while it was put away. drove me insane.

[somethingmustbreaknow]

^ i always wondered whether it would affect the sound if you have some foam in between there while filming, so i never bothered to do that and i also was way less worried about a board hitting the mic compared to like something happening while stored in the backpack.
funny thing is, once we were visiting a homie in his city to skate and had some drinks while at it. then after the session we went into some kind of beer garden and had some more. we then drunkenly bombed some hill and while pretty drunk i slammed with my camera backpack on against some parking car. this caused the microphone to snap and its ribbon cable broke because i had not yet used this put-in-foam-when-in-storage method. i was pretty mad at myself as we - same crew - were going to fly to barcelona some weeks afterwards and i was worried that we would not be able to film properly. shout out to the ebay legend in canada who quickly sent me one across the pond for a very solid price, i replaced the broken one and we were able to film some great clips in 10 days of barcelona (with sound!). this was in 2016, man - time flies.

[Sidewalk Funk.]

Anyone have the name or contact of someone that can buff scratches on the Mk1? I read about it on here awhile ago, but can't find the post/info now.

[doyle]

Anyone have the name or contact of someone that can buff scratches on the Mk1? I read about it on here awhile ago, but can't find the post/info now.

[Sidewalk Funk.]

That was it! Thanks so much!

[Olympus Mons]

Curious what light setups y'all use with your VX? There's one I commonly see, but not sure what it is exactly... it's like a skinny shoe-mount light with two bulbs stacked vertically. Anyone know what that is?

[Jordan Wiens]

Curious what light setups y'all use with your VX? There's one I commonly see, but not sure what it is exactly... it's like a skinny shoe-mount light with two bulbs stacked vertically. Anyone know what that is?

that ones the sony 10/20. its old, so dim and leaves a weird pattern on the footage. i can find some examples if u want to see what i mean.

i would go with either a tungsten balanced led or a bi-color led light so you can make it warmer. easier on the skaters eyes and you can match the color to street lights. no point in going with real tungsten bulbs unless you want to carry a battery bag on your hip with a cord.

[pedro_mayn]

Curious what light setups y'all use with your VX? There's one I commonly see, but not sure what it is exactly... it's like a skinny shoe-mount light with two bulbs stacked vertically. Anyone know what that is?

I just got a Newer or w/e it's called 160 LED light. Takes VX1 batteries.

Don't film VX anymore but still use it as it's fooking tidy, like. But when I did, it was well, fooking tidy like.

[Jordan Wiens]

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Curious what light setups y'all use with your VX? There's one I commonly see, but not sure what it is exactly... it's like a skinny shoe-mount light with two bulbs stacked vertically. Anyone know what that is?

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I just got a Newer or w/e it's called 160 LED light. Takes VX1 batteries.

Don't film VX anymore but still use it as it's fooking tidy, like. But when I did, it was well, fooking tidy like.

that neweer is green and cold. needs a correction gel at least. buy nice or buy twice

[pedro_mayn]

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Curious what light setups y'all use with your VX? There's one I commonly see, but not sure what it is exactly... it's like a skinny shoe-mount light with two bulbs stacked vertically. Anyone know what that is?

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I just got a Newer or w/e it's called 160 LED light. Takes VX1 batteries.

Don't film VX anymore but still use it as it's fooking tidy, like. But when I did, it was well, fooking tidy like.

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that neweer is green and cold. needs a correction gel at least. buy nice or buy twice

I got a white filter over mine that came with it, has no problem whatsoever with any particular hues of green or anything.

[Jordan Wiens]

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Curious what light setups y'all use with your VX? There's one I commonly see, but not sure what it is exactly... it's like a skinny shoe-mount light with two bulbs stacked vertically. Anyone know what that is?

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I just got a Newer or w/e it's called 160 LED light. Takes VX1 batteries.

Don't film VX anymore but still use it as it's fooking tidy, like. But when I did, it was well, fooking tidy like.

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that neweer is green and cold. needs a correction gel at least. buy nice or buy twice

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I got a white filter over mine that came with it, has no problem whatsoever with any particular hues of green or anything.

you can technically correct for it in white balance, but then the street lamps turn blood red. or save 50$ dollars and get the bicolor and save yourself the headache. just trust

[pedro_mayn]

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Curious what light setups y'all use with your VX? There's one I commonly see, but not sure what it is exactly... it's like a skinny shoe-mount light with two bulbs stacked vertically. Anyone know what that is?

[close]

I just got a Newer or w/e it's called 160 LED light. Takes VX1 batteries.

Don't film VX anymore but still use it as it's fooking tidy, like. But when I did, it was well, fooking tidy like.

[close]

that neweer is green and cold. needs a correction gel at least. buy nice or buy twice

[close]

I got a white filter over mine that came with it, has no problem whatsoever with any particular hues of green or anything.

[close]

you can technically correct for it in white balance, but then the street lamps turn blood red. or save 50$ dollars and get the bicolor and save yourself the headache. just trust

Are we talking about the same light here or some weird, new iteration of the model? I never had any of these type of colour issues and I filmed a whole full length video with this light on the VX (mainly film at night, so having a good light is important obviously). If anything I just simply adjusted the colour shift in the CP if I felt it got too 'orange' or 'yellowy' which you get with filming VX at night with any light if it's set too high, but never really had anything glaringly offensive. I had an off brand 140 LED that was the same, too. Albeit not as bright at this one.

Same goes for my new camera (Canon XF100) - never really had any problems where it looked odd.

[Jordan Wiens]

yeah maybe the cheapies are decent these days. i just have very specific wants for a light imo and thought id save them the hassle of buying something else down the line. fuck it, black and white night footage lol. could be how diff cameras colors too. but having at least control of cool to warm is a nice to have no matter the situation. rgb lights not as needed.

[pedro_mayn]

yeah maybe the cheapies are decent these days. i just have very specific wants for a light imo and thought id save them the hassle of buying something else down the line. fuck it, black and white night footage lol. could be how diff cameras colors too. but having at least control of cool to warm is a nice to have no matter the situation. rgb lights not as needed.

Ah nah I hear you, it just made me think as I never had any issues with my light and it's done me good for a long time. The 140 LED before was the same and that lasted nearly 10 years (honestly gutted I couldn't find the same one, as it's smaller and much more lightweight than the 160 I got).

I do believe in what you're saying though, it's always good to pay a lot for something tech related as most of the time it will serve you good for a long time. Buy cheap, buy twice is the saying with my lot.

Yeah definitely, my first VX1 was NTSC and I swear the shit was foggy compared to my PAL, but that was properly down to age and maybe a foggy lens, so it never looked as good as my last VX1 for colours.

At least I know of more options for lights for next time.

[linty]

How does one keep a Tadashi filter unscratched when they seem to get scuffed by simply being stored securely in a backpack?

[pedro_mayn]

How does one keep a Tadashi filter unscratched when they seem to get scuffed by simply being stored securely in a backpack?

I get the same gripe, it's mostly a case of using a lens blower and just making sure to do so before gently wiping it.

I get more grief with scratches now using it with my Mk1 on an XF100, but it's just a case of making sure you're keeping dust off it regularly.

[linty]

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How does one keep a Tadashi filter unscratched when they seem to get scuffed by simply being stored securely in a backpack?

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I get the same gripe, it's mostly a case of using a lens blower and just making sure to do so before gently wiping it.

I get more grief with scratches now using it with my Mk1 on an XF100, but it's just a case of making sure you're keeping dust off it regularly.

I used mine for a month and it's visibly scratched already. I've only sprayed it before every 2-3 days of use with an antistatic cleaning solution and wiping it with the least coarse microfiber cloth I could find. Feels like there's a new scratch every time you take it out of the pouch. Also broke both rubber bands already so have to sort that out, too.

[Sidewalk Funk.]

Haven't touched my VX in a couple months. Just brought it out for the first time and straight out of the bag it started having an unusual issue: the camera is very slowly zooming-in without me touching the zoom controls or anything else on the camera. It will zoom-in a small amount, then stop, then zoom-in some more, then stop, and repeat this process until it's fully zoomed-in.

Never heard of this before. Anyone here have a guess?

[PaulYoung]

Haven't touched my VX in a couple months. Just brought it out for the first time and straight out of the bag it started having an unusual issue: the camera is very slowly zooming-in without me touching the zoom controls or anything else on the camera. It will zoom-in a small amount, then stop, then zoom-in some more, then stop, and repeat this process until it's fully zoomed-in.

Never heard of this before. Anyone here have a guess?

I’ve had this happen a couple times over the years. Just use it for a few days, it’ll either go away or the zoom button is about to break. Easy to fix if it does.

[linty]

This is a new one for me:

Been getting these glitches lately. Hard to notice them on the spot because they only show up when you playback the footage.

[CHONGO]

This is a new one for me:

Been getting these glitches lately. Hard to notice them on the spot because they only show up when you playback the footage.

Does it show up after you captured the clip?

[linty]

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This is a new one for me:

Been getting these glitches lately. Hard to notice them on the spot because they only show up when you playback the footage.

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Does it show up after you captured the clip?

Yup.

[Sidewalk Funk.]

Haven't touched my VX in a couple months. Just brought it out for the first time and straight out of the bag it started having an unusual issue: the camera is very slowly zooming-in without me touching the zoom controls or anything else on the camera. It will zoom-in a small amount, then stop, then zoom-in some more, then stop, and repeat this process until it's fully zoomed-in.

Never heard of this before. Anyone here have a guess?

Figured I'd provide an update in case anyone else experiences similar issues in the future. Soon after writing this, the camera began zooming-in on its own more quickly and what really tripped me out was the camera began recording on it's own without me pressing any buttons.

Turns out I needed to get the zoom/standby assembly replaced, which also includes the control for record start/stop.

[matureoftheocean]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175836007408?hash=item28f0a48bf0:g:eIMAAOSwPxxkwceJ&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwPP1xUULLKdCFT%2BYmDO2B%2F393OvyiesjoaAtn%2BHiUAlsULVFikPasthGTk0Hbd0cV7Q8%2FFkU2ArHi54bMLldl3NLFAypCjy6gGae2Hh79CsKG%2B9HTryyKx2Vhc4AQuW1dCfctAkH5I%2FqVR7jtqpZ1RO2xrBIJkEB7%2FVPKj7%2FntjOp%2FhOgP9XuHRbnPiTnnAq1eEk20m4YlzVXM1rjFGT38sH5heFSL7rK48cr55g2CEb2Y5a5KW0vdq2e%2FA2zbOmjA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6DY2f_SYg

Has somebody tried one of these? Could I use my laptop for capturing with this box?