AJ SPX800

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[Noah Kadner] “Yeah Jiri- sounds like you got a nothing special upconvert.”
Really??
Well tell Thomson,Sony,Ikegami and Panasonic to stop producing HD gear.
Or just shoot the same shots on different cameras and compare it(after upconversion) on HD monitor….or better still,post Your visions on HD forum
for members to be entertained:)
jiri vrozina,australia

[Jean-yves Le moine]

the best to do:
shoot with a 810 or 900 but with an HD lens and then up convert
amazing!!

jean-yves le moine

temps r

[Rainer Wirth]

Same forum, a little earlier

Rainer

[Rainer Wirth]

Now, here’s the workflow, and it works!

You need Tiger and FCP5 (for the MXF files). You shoot on P2 cards. Then you have to flip the protection button on the cards on protect (otherwise the cards won’t show up as a hard disc on the computer). You have to set the camera via System settings (press the menue button on the camera for a few seconds, till the menue shows on the monitor attached to the camera) into USB on. Now connect the camera to the computer. The 5 cards mount as hard discs. Each disc contains a folder called content. These folders are copied on let’s say a powerbook (more than 500 Mghz with OSx) For safety you copy the content on an external HD via Firewire. Check, whether all the folders with content are properly copied. Run FCP5 on the laptop and view one shot.
Disconnect the camera, switch off USB function (otherwise the camera won’t record) Put the protect button on each P2 card on write, delete the content of the cards, and start shooting again.

Rainer

[Bill Anderson]

If you don’t have the expensive high end options to do an uprez test but do have Photoshop CS try this: create a DROPLET in CS to automate a series of actions. A typical droplet might be Open-16 bit-1280X720 Bicubic Interpolation-Unsharp Mask- Close. Export an image sequence from FCP (Tiff millions +) into a folder. Drop the folder on to the newly created DROPLET.
It takes Photoshop about a second to process each frame once the folder has been dropped on to the “Droplet” – so a one second sequence of twenty four frames might be all you need. Now you have 24 (high quality) uprezed frames-make quicktime movie, etc… Compare.

[Toke]

Why 16bit, if you export 8 bit tiffs from FCP?

[Toke]

Well, you can get close (or even) to low quality hd with high quality sd and high quality up-rez.
Realtime up-rez is never a best option. Fractal plug-ins and lots of time and horsepower gives much better results.

Question was not can I produce Dalsa equivalent material with miniDV, but can HQ-sd beat LQ-hd (like hdv).

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Once sony and others will “plugin” decent 2/3″ block to format like HDV,it will be hard to beat this kind of gear.
Lets consider new JVC-7000 gear with CMOS 2/3′ block and 12-14 bit processing and compressed HD recorder at the back.
Let me tell you,any DVCPRO 50 gear will not stand a chance.
(but it will be still too good for todays rates:)
Take care-jiri vrozina