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PMW-EX1 brochure
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Eric,
Is there anywhere else I can download that .pdf file? I’ve been trying to get it since last night and the connection to the Austrailian Sony web site is terrible. I guess it’s because so many others are trying to get it. Would you be able to email it to me?
greeningATshawDOTca
Eternally grateful
– Don
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More info on the XDCAM EX here:
https://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_EU&contentId=1187079496418
Here’s a test of a (slightly) pre-production model from two different web sites. It’s the same test report but the tester goes into more detail at his home site:
https://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_EU&contentId=1187079500753
https://www.ingenioustv.com/xdcamex.asp
– Don
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I’m falling in love with this camera. But I see one issue though. And I hope it’s a type-o. On page 4 on the botton, it says it samples at 4:2:0. Please say it isn’t so.
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Actually, the 4:2:0 thing is accurate, probably because the XDCAM EX records using the MPEG 2 codec, same as HDV. The big difference here, however, is that the bitrate is variable, whereas HDV is constant. Makes a huge difference in the final picture where there’s fast action.
XDCAM EX will output 4:4:2 if you record using the HD SDI interface to a hard drive array. Maybe that will make you feel a tad better.
– Don
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That should have read:
XDCAM EX will output 4:2:2 if you record using the HD-SDI interface.
– Don
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Hi Don,
I’ve been waiting for the XDCAM EX for a few months. Now I see this of the 420 sampling. I’ve got shocked. Is it a joke? You say that can out-put 422 using the HDI-SDi interface. What mean that, that from a 420 makes a 422? If is like that this is a deception. You can do the same in FC.
Cheers,
Rafael -
Hey Rafael
Wasn’t the EX was always going to be 4:2:0 ?
It is the much bigger brother, the forthcoming PDW-F700 that is 4:2:2, no?Andy
PS I picked up the discs today, thanks. Looking forward to watching them 🙂
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[rafalaos] “What mean that, that from a 420 makes a 422? If is like that this is a deception. You can do the same in FC.”
You can’t generate 4:2:2 information from something that was originally recorded in 4:2:0. If you were to drop a 4:2:0 clip into a 4:2:2 FCP timline you’d still be working with a 4:2:0 clip. FCP or anything else for that matter, cannot invent colour information that wasn’t there to begin with.
However, the XDCAM EX will indeed output 4:2:2 via the HD-SDI port. The signal is taken directly off the imagers, bypassing the the MPEG2 compression process, much like shooting RAW with a digital still camera.
– Don
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Hi Don and Andy,
Sorry but my English is a bit short, and this is still confusing for me.[Don Greening] “The signal is taken directly off the imagers, bypassing the the MPEG2 compression process”
Do that mean that the camera record 420 wile out-put a 422 from the HDI-SDI port? If is like that, is the same that if we say that my SONY DVCam gives a full uncompress broadcast PAL signal. That is what I got by-passing the DV compression through the Composite Video-out or S-Video. Yes I can get a 10b Unc recording directly to my HD with the BM card. A signal thousand times better than the one I get from the tape. But I can not bring my G5 to the mountainn to work.
I’ve been fallowing a very interesting thread in this forum comparing XDCam with DVCproHD.
OK, I accept that recording a 422-MPG2-Long GOP-35Mbps can yield better picture than a 422-Intrafield-100Mbps (I accept it because because many people has experienced that).
But I don’t belive that the same will be true when talking about a 420-MPG2-Long GOP even if we increase the the data-rate. If XDCAM EX record only 420 what we got is just an improved HDV. The old mean approach of SONY to the pro-sumers?
Please cool me. I don’t want to look back to the HVX202.
Nice week-end,
rafael -
Hi Andy,
We have been talking about XDCam, and I always thought XDCam is 422 with 18-25-35Mbps. If with a 35Mbps you can record a 422, why to limit it to 420? You got everything in the camera to get it. I havent go to any of the HV formats because IMHO they are not HD. I’m from the old school and for me HD means more quality, not just more pixels. More color samples is what I want:-)
BTW I have to write you. I’ve got a good friend (and very good video-editor) that wrote me few weeks ago that he was thinking to apply for a job in AJE.
I hope you like the DVDs. My clips are just CC exercices and many of them are “over-done”.
I really will apreciate your critics. Here I got no body that can give me a proffesional point of view. Just play them in a TV set.
Cheers,
rafael
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