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really dumb question
I realise how futile this may seem given the huge leaps Panasonic have made; but to cover my options on some corporate shoots I’ll ask… does the Panasonic also shoot SD in 4:3 or is it purely a 16:9 camera? As must as I hate it, many of my requests are still for 4:3 videos!
Also, regarding the hot swappable feature – lets say I had the $10,000 bundle (2 8GB cards), and I was shoting 1080p. Seems to me that you couldnt shoot continuously. If you get 8 mins on a card, and it takes 8 mins to offload it to an external device, then hot-swapping becomes impossible unless you get 3 8Gb cards – which again pushes the initial investment up by $2000 (or whatever an 8GB card turns out to be). The same would go for higer GB P2 capacities – it would take just as long to offload as it would to shoot – so you’d always need 3 cards, no matter how big they were (a 32GB card would take 32 min to offload and 32 min to shoot). Bear in mind here Im only talking about 720p/60 or 1080.
I dont think there will be many instances where I leave the camera filming 1080p continuously, but I thought it was worth pointing out.
Karl
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If offloading(+swapping) is less than realtime, you run out of cards eventually anyway,
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Another good reason for HD-SDI on this model. You could do multi camera events to a switcher, very cost efficient.
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There won’t be HD-SDI on any of these cameras. You can get a converter box from (I think it was) AJA, that converts analog component to HD-SDI, but there’s no direct HD-SDI output on the HVX, the JVC HD100, or the Z1.
As for transfer speed — transfer speed is limited by the receiving device. Theoretically a P2 card could transfer its contents at 6 to 64 times real time, depending on what format you’d recorded on. If you use the maximum bitrate, 100 megabits, you could still transfer the entire contents at 6x realtime, provided you had a receiving device that supported those kinds of speeds.
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You know, it’s not a dumb question. I too wish to know about options for 4:3. On the Sony HDV cameras, one has a choice of having a full SD 4:3 image, and gets guide lines in the viewfinder to boot (from what I have been told by owners).
What’s the word on this? Would we still need to go rent a DVX100a to do our SD 4:3 jobs?
-Christopher Johnson
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I don’t know that they’ve spelled it out, but it’s a reasonably safe assumption that it will support 4:3. Has there ever been a 16:9 camera released that didn’t also have a 4:3 mode?
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64x realtime with p2’s 640Mbps?
What stream is 10Mbps? -
Yet another example of why I wish the cow would let us edit posts. That’s a mistake, I meant 6.4.
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