Just heard Jan speak on DV guys abot the HVX-200

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[Graeme Nattress] “Am I on the right track here Jan?? I know that if I was developing a new cost effective camera I’d try to re-use rather than re-invent as much as possible, “

Hi Graeme,

You are right on the money. Oddly enough though once past the compresion engine, it stil has to be proven at every frame rate, so while the engineers have their work finished on the front end, they have to make it all work on the back end.

Best,

jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Graeme Nattress]

Glad to know I’m on the right track and not going gaga.

I really appreciated your comments that you’re going to go for good dynamic range, resolution and low noise on the sensors. Normally people just pick one. I am looking forwards to learning how you’ve managed to optimize all three.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP

[Toke]

Btw, jvc is advertizing hd-sdi option to it’s 100.
Does anybody have a clue will that mean really 10bit uncompressed or just some lame fw-sdi converter?
If it really is 10bit colors out of $6k camera, then I think Panny should follow the fashion.

[Graeme Nattress]

Sure it’ll be 10bit if they employ 10bit A to D converters, although it will be noise limited by the D to A converter and other circuitry, so although it may well carry 10bits, there could be 2 or more bits of noise in there…..

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP

[Jeremiah Black]

Yes JVC is planning on realeasing 50 mb cameras but not until next year. Price was given as being around $20,000.

jeremiah black
dual 2 gig G5
2.5 gigs of RAM
Decklink Extreme capture card

[Barry Green]

[toke lahti] “Btw, jvc is advertizing hd-sdi option to it’s 100.
Does anybody have a clue will that mean really 10bit uncompressed or just some lame fw-sdi converter? “
There is no access to the uncompressed digital signal. So the only way to get HD-SDI is to use either some sort of converter from the firewire, or to convert from the analog outputs. At NAB they were demonstrating HD-SDI, I asked ’em about it and asked if there was an option board, and the guy said “well, no, we’re using this AJA converter hooked to the analog component outputs.”

That doesn’t mean it won’t look good, that just means it’s not going to be an HD-SDI signal direct from the camera head, it’s going to be a digitized version of the analog outputs.

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[Toke]

Thanks for the knowledge, Barry!