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SPX 800 vs. SDX 900
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hand them the card? not for $1600. What do you mean?
They could pop it in their laptop and watch the day’s shooting. If they keep it or lose it, bill them! I think the proxy encoding is pure genius.
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[Daniel Weber] “Image quality on the SDX 900 is is good as it gets without shooting HD.”
Yep, with one quarter of the color tones that you get with digibeta…
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[toke lahti] “Yep, with one quarter of the color tones that you get with digibeta…”
Wrong, DVCPRO50 has the same colour space as digibeta.
Gabriel Costache
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[Randall3] “They could pop it in their laptop and watch the day’s shooting. If they keep it or lose it, bill them! I think the proxy encoding is pure genius.”
You don’t have to hand the P2 card, you can write the proxy to a normal SD card when shooting. You can view that on an average PDA with a SD slot.Gabriel Costache
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DVCpro50 is 4:2:2 true. But it is 8-bit colour compared to 10-bit colour of Digibeta. The eye wouldn’t notice it too much, but during heavy colour correction the dfferences would show up.
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[Gabriel] “You can view that on an average PDA with a SD slot.”
I’d also like to have PDA with hd-resolution screen.
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But you’ll actually find it very hard to see 10bit v 8bit in the raw footage. You might find that a 10bit DigiBeta capture has more room to work with for colour correction in post, but it’s not 4 times as good.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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He’s referring (although not clearly) to DigiBeta being 10bit, and DVCpro50 being 8bit, not chroma sampling, which in both cases is 4:2:2.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Of course not 4 times as good, but there are problems even with very modest color correction.
In the old days it wasn’t so noticable with crt’s and analog connections, but today (and tomorrow) with lcd’s, dvi’s, hdmi’s and with film-out you’ll notice the difference.
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Which is why video camera manufacturers need to seriously start thinking about moving rapidly beyond 8bit. But that said, that would need much bigger chips to get the noise levels low enough to warrant > 8bit encoding, would it not?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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