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best videofootage for working in ae
hi there,
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Highest chroma resolution you can afford: DigiBeta, most of the HD formats (not HDV). Understand that most of these require special capture hardware to preserve the signal quality.
bogiesan
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So.
What’s your budget? $1K? $2K? $5K? $20K?
Are you willing to rent?
Are you willing to take time to learn to use something you’ve never used before … such as a complex professional $30K+ video camera?Or would you like to look at DVMatte Pro, which I hear does a decent job of keying DV?
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WOW!! 115,000$ id have to rob a bank just to even put a down payment on that thing .good lucky with that one kayak
has anyone rented a hdv camera what is the range for a few days of good camera rental
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Videoscope in Toronto charges $250-300 per day for an HDV camera. Student discounts are available, and many rental houses offer a weekend rate that matches a one-day rate.
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thanks steve and dave . renting seems to be the only option at this point .
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bear in mind that HDV is the same data rate as mini DV with effectively nearly 4 times the pixels… ie 4 times as compressed.
It’s a more modern compression so if you scale it down to SD it might be better than DV, but if you were to decide to work at HD it would be even worse.also, HDV samples colour at 4:2:0 as opposed to 4:1:1, which in some cases could make it worse for keying (i think)
cheers
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this cow article from a few months ago reviewed a product from convergent design that could take the hdmi out from a hdv camera to capture signifiacantly better video than the recorded hdv signal.
it sounded like a good way to get good quality video from a less expensive camera. and since you’d be shooting in a studio, capturing directly to the computer shouldn’t be a huge issue… although depending on the compression you may need a fast disk array for hd.
Kevin Camp
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okay,
after reading your posts and since my budget isn
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