OT NAB 2013 – Blackmagic drop another bomb

[Tim Wilson]

[Jeremy Garchow] “[Shawn Miller] “we may be seeing the end of h.264 cameras for professionals.”

Can I somehow, hold you to this statement?”

Might be easier to just buy the client the camera for $999 and be glad for not having the years taken off your life by having to wrangle straight H.264.

Saving years taken off your life is as good as earning years added to your life, right?

Tim Wilson
Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tim Wilson] “Saving years taken off your life is as good as earning years added to your life, right?”

Something like that, yes.

[Joseph W. bourke]

I don’t know, Tim…is it better to be a younger guy who knows as much as the experienced geezer, or the experienced geezer who can’t remember what he knew when he was young? I’m confused…but old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative…(stolen from Maurice Chevalier)

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Tim Wilson]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “but old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative”

I’m a huge fan of old age. HUGE.

I’m just saying that working with consumer H.264 in a pro context might take years off your life.

Is it worth $999 to buy a BMD camera, HAND it to your client, say “Use this” to buy a longer, happier life? Perhaps so. 🙂

Tim Wilson
Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Rafael Amador]

I’m not a fan of the H264/Mp4/AVCHD family for acquisition, but being the data rate of Prores422 some five folds higher than the average codecs used by consumer/prosumers camcorder, the need for storage will deter most people to buy this camera.
rafael

[Eric Santiago]

Being a Scarlet owner I could sound biased but IMHO they are not the in the same boat as say the current EPIC.
If the frame rates were higher and the color science and data delivery (workflow and all) were close then maybe.

[Shawn Miller]

[Jeremy Garchow] “[Shawn Miller] “we may be seeing the end of h.264 cameras for professionals.”

Can I somehow, hold you to this statement?

Please? 🙂

Jeremy”

Ha ha ha sure, but with a strong emphasis on the “may be” part… as in, “man I am REALLY hoping”. 🙂

Shawn

[Lance Bachelder]

The small cam just looks silly but I still want both of them – BMD is kinda doing what Red started out with the first Scarlet announcement. Now Red is charging 6 grand for a recording module…

Tough to even get near them through the crowds:

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Steve Connor]

You mean the BMD camera isn’t in the same league as one that costs at least 7 times the price?

Based on our BMD camera I’d also argue that the colour science is actually very good

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Rick Lang]

Of course it is too good to be true because BMD just can’t avoid marketing hype. The crop factor compared to a full frame 35mm camera is 1.7x which as you know is slightly greater than Canon APS-C at 1.62 and Super35 about 1.44. Regardless of the marketing hyperbole, it appears the BMPC4K is great value at $3,995 with 12 stops of dynamic range and a global shutter with a resolution of 3840×2160. If course we need to see what the actual image quality is like since it is a different sensor than on the BMCC and the BMPC.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB