Sony HVR V1 / VU1

I was asked the differences between these two cams, the Sony HVR V1 and the VU1 and had no answer. I knew I could come to you guys for the answer.

Steve B)

Possibly the same as the A1E / A1U ones from europe the other USA.

Maybe

Dive safe

DeanB

Not sure Dean, the person who asked said there was a significant price difference and US vs Europe wouldn't do that I don't think.-Steve

Not sure Dean, the person who asked said there was a significant price difference and US vs Europe wouldn't do that I don't think.-Steve

There is no model HVR-VU1 afaik...

http://dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?f=140 has some discussion about the various models. Even their heading says V1 while most of the posts refer to it as V1U.

Sony sells the HVR-V1U - the "pro" version of the HDR-FX7 platform and the HDR-Z1U based on the HDR-FX1. I believe a big difference is that the V1U/FX7 has 3CMOS sensors while the Z1U/FX1 has 3CCD's.

Link to the Sony Professional website showing their current HDV offferings:

http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusin.../products.shtml

Link to the HVR-V1U specific site:

http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusin...-V1U/index.html

Anything better gets into the XDCam, HDCam or DV series. They all have completely different model #'s.

Maybe the person you talked to was looking at differently optioned models. There is an add-on 60GB HDD available for the V1U platform.

Great, that's what I thought. Thanks for the research.

Steve B)

Isn't that what i said...But in a shorter way..

Dive safe

DeanB

Must be the accent mate !

har har

M.

I got a 'P".

My A1 bought in Australia is an HVR-A1P

Maybe PAL outside of Europe??

Simon

Correct - the intial after the model number denotes the market a camera is sold into.

Different countries have variations in duty / taxes depending on camera features.

I recall many video camera's sold into the European market had the video input capability disabled as then it had less duty / tax than if was a video recorder - not sure if this is still so.

I'm pretty sure P is for Pacific, not PAL.

I recall many video camera's sold into the European market had the video input capability disabled as then it had less duty / tax than if was a video recorder - not sure if this is still so.

My Canon MV1 digital video camera was like that. The firewire input was disabled for tax reasons, you could get a unofficial dongle that overcame the problem. I'm pretty sure all European camcorders are now I/O.

Roger

Yeah my old Panasonic DX100 was like that. I plugged it into a serial port and flashed it using a program I bought to enable the video-in. Was a bit hairy but it worked. Then soon after they became the DX110 and video-in was enabled on them.

So, I searched the old threads and can't find the answer to this question.

I'm reading up on my HVR-V1U camera and a statement was made in the ebook that if shooting in 24p a person should use the option of "24A" if using a NLE that can handle 24p- like FCP 6.0?

Okay, why?

There was also some mention of a hesitation between clips if using 24A? Is this a problem?

thanks in advance for an answer.

Shep

Read this thread and the links it has for your answers:

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21649