NAB 2006 Predictions

[Toke]

[Steve Freebairn] “I think that a DVCPro200 codec will be released for the Varicam.”

If this will come, I hope they adopt some modern technology to it like jpeg2000 adopted by Infinity.
10b of 12b colors is a must too.
Just raising the dataspeed and keeping over a decade old codec and color depth won’t be enough anymore with competition with eg. Red.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I think the legend of the ghost of Ben Franklin will visit the huge, giant halls of the NAB convention claiming, “You all would not be here if I didn’t tie that key to my kite string.”

In all seriousness, I’m hoping for FCP v11 (why go to 6 when this one goes to 11?) with real time holographic projection (and real time 3 way cc on that of course) and if they have that, they should have native mxf support, right? Come on Apple, show us how to unleash the intel that’s been dormant in the pc for so long, or whatever your latest clean room commercial claims.

Perhaps a bigger p2 store. Enough for two/three days of 720p24N shooting. Cineporter looks like it might be nice, but that p2 store is too darn convenient and I don’t have to strap anything else to my camera/body/tripod/forehead.

Perhaps a P2 viewer or mxf management system for Mac. I have not seen the p2 viewer for PC, but it sure sounds cool. It’d be nice to be able to change the name if the clips at the end of the day, before you even touch FCP or your NLE. That way when you sit down to import the files to your favorite NLE (from that bigger p2 store I want) they come in named what you want, not what the engineers want (no offense Panasonic engineers, you guys/gals are doing one hell of a job). It’s be nice to be able to do this in an interface outside of an NLE. Some sort of database driven system with thumbnails and perhaps low res previews, something that you don’t need to be an editor to use so that the producer can log the files in down time, on the flight home, whatever. If I have this I can now truly, start editing right away instead of renaming and relogging within the NLE.

16 Gig cards would be cool, but way too damn expensive I’m sure. I can wait on that stuff, it’ll all come in due time. Plus five years from now we can all sit back and say, “remember when Panasonic’s P2 first came out and you could only record 4 minutes of 1080p on an 8 Gig card? Man those were the days.” Those kinds of stories never get old, just the technology in those stories gets old. I just want the support to be there so when I sit down to edit I have properly named files and a source big enough to drag in files in one large download instead of a bunch of little ones (here’s where the bigger p2 store comes in, again). Since this P2 system is all about an IT centric philosophy, we need the IT management tools to make the process truly unique.

TTFN

Jeremy

[Ron Lindeboom]

[JeremyG] “I think the legend of the ghost of Ben Franklin will visit the huge, giant halls of the NAB convention claiming, ‘You all would not be here if I didn’t tie that key to my kite string.'”

Nah, he showed up last year and was quite disheartened as many there were products of the networks and hence thought that ole Ben was the inventor of the $100 bill — which is why he got to be pictured on it…

But those of us in San Luis Obispo County, California know that Ben Franklin invented the Ben Franklin Sandwich Shop in SLOtown and which has therefore become his greatest claim to fame.

Slather on the mustard and let’s eat.

Ron Lindeboom

[David S.]

[Steve Freebairn] “I think that the price on the HVX200 and the previously released cards will also slightly drop.”

Panasonic can’t get enough product to sell.

Usually this means no price drops, certainly on the cam.

David S.

[Jeremy Garchow]

A ha! Boy, I need to visit my elementary school and tell my teacher what Ben Franklin really “invented”. Perhaps Zinn should update A People’s History of the United States to reflect our findings?

[Frank Nolan]

I predict panasonic will introduce a new P2 camera with three 2/3″ ccd’s, five p2 card slots and an SD card:-)

[Ken Hon]

Ben was actually so far ahead of his time he invented the surge protector long before Edison had seen the light. Thank goodness he was holding that ham sandwich at the time. This must have been the event that led to melted cheese on sandwiches and eventually to his famous Philly cheese steak recipe “Thou gather thy friends and together shall you hoist one milk cow to the roof of thy tallest building. Whence accomplished, tie thy kite string to thy cow bell and standest back as far as thy can while holding thy open loaf skyward till it is filled with cheese and steak”. May Ron forgive my cowsacrilege….

[Ron Lindeboom]

Forgive you for what, Ken? It was so funny that I nearly spit up my chips and salsa all over my computer screen as I read that…

:o)

Ron Lindeboom

[Ken Hon]

Thanks Ron. Glad I don’t owe you a new monitor!

Aloha,

Ken

[Shane Ross]

I predict I will get drunk and lose a LOT of money at the Craps table.

But really, that wasn’t too hard of a prediction.

Panasonic said that the P2 card capacity will double every year. Last year they had the 4GB cards, even though the cameras weren’t available. Now they have the 8GB cards. I probably won’t be until next Jan that you see the 16GB cards…then another year for the 32GB…and so on.

Or so I have been told.

Shane

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