We shot a 3 camera shoot with a digibeta, and F900, and an HVX200. All of this gets downconverted to a SD timeline and sent out to digibeta for final release. Why the crazy mix and match formats? Well, two of the cameras the company owns and the third was the best bet for getting a high enough quality image without breaking the bank on a rental. As it turns out, we might’ve been better served shooting it with the HVX. The results were very surprising — I expected the HVX’s downconvert to compare favorably enough, but I was blown away by how well it matched the F900s downconvert (there’s some difference in it, the 900 has way better detail resolution, but going from wide to tight it’s hardly noticeable). What was noticeable, though, was the digibeta intercutting with the F900. The detail was all skewed, the color seemed flat and overall it hardly looked good, let alone matching the 900. In fact, I wouldn’t hesitate to use an HVX the next time instead, as long as it’s recording to HD…