JVC NEW HD LINE

[Bob O’brien]

I don’t know. Despite all this HDV compression stuff, the footage playing in the Sony booth looked the best. FAR better than JVC’s in my opinion. Granted, the Sony’s footage was transferred to HDCam for editing and playback, but I would assume Panasonic and JVC did the same type of thing.

This may be just marketing, but the Sony rep criticized the JVC camera for having an SD lens, whereas the lens on the Sony was made for HD. It has an awesome zoom range too.

As for Panasonic, unless you’re a news person, I just can’t see P2 being viable. I have footage for my corporate clients from the late 80’s that still use! I would have to archive the P2s somehow, which would take time – and saving time is part of the point, no?

DVCPro50 and 100 on P2 without the MPEG2 compression, yes, that’s a great advantage. But with the cost of the P2 chips right now, I just don’t see it as the best solution.

Bobo

[Bob Woodhead]

Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong – there’s no way I’m buying that Panny with the only option for 50/100 recording being a stack of EXPENSIVE P2 chips! My only point was that the 25Mbps just ain’t enough for pro HD. Unless your program consists of flowers on a demo stage. 😉

[Lance Bachelder]

According to the JVC rep who shot all the NYC 24p footage the Fujinon lens is an HD lens designed specifically for the new camera. I agree the 1080i Sony footage looks fantastic, but for digital features 24p is so important as most post “filmlook” processes are time consuming and never as good as true 24p footage.

Lance Bachelder
Southern California
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