Andrew Kimery
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If you don’t edit very often then the editing keyboards make sense, but if you edit frequently you’ll have the keyboard commands memorized in short order and you’ll probably change the keyboard layout which makes the editing keyboard useless if not confusing.
-Andrew
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As much as talk about the latest and greatest hardware and software it’s nice to be reminded every now and again that it’s not the tool but the person wielding it.
-Andrew
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[Stu Siegal] “Actually, they addressed the need for high quality stills & web video from one unit a while ago.
https://www.usa.canon.com/app/html/HDV/XHA1/case_study_03.shtml
Granted, still photogs didn’t throw away their DSLR’s for A1’s, and I don’t think Canon really expect them to, but I’m sure the Trib wasn’t the only one to take advantage of the A1 as a still/video news gatherer.
Forgive me if I’m missing your point, but I said all this in my previous post, didn’t I? Photojournalists being pressed into shooting video for the web, still cameras that can take ‘good enough’ video for thte web and video cameras that can take ‘good enough’ stills, etc..
Regardless, the genie is out of the bottle with the 5d & 7d, and it’s only a matter of time until either a wise strategy, an eye for opportunity, or the demands of the marketplace force them to integrate the best of their video features into a proper camcorder. “
Again, this is why I waiting to see what Red delivers next year because they stated they were building a camera that’s equally at home taking both video and stills.-Andrew
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[Stu Siegal] “In this case, it feels to me like Canon designed these two not to draw customers off their XL camcorder line (thus many of Dave’s legitimate gripes regarding form, control, audio), but to come out with a product that tempts people waiting for the Red product to come to market to jump in now, at a price that will attract many to supplement their X series camcorders with a 5 or 7 d. It’s shrewd, effective, and as a consumer, it sucks. “
I don’t think this is the case though. Do to a changing landscape photojournalists are being asked to provide web video as well as stills and that’s who vDSLRs were really targeted towards. I mean 30.00fps might suck for a typical b’cast workflow but it’s perfectly fine for the web. Some people in the video world then pressed them into service as primarily video cameras even though these are still photography cameras first and foremost. As video people continue to complain about the lack of video features the DSLR makers will probably continue to try and appease them (like w/the proper frame rates on the 7D), but I don’t think they are going to sacrifice their core audience of photographers to make a camera that is video first and stills second.
Red is the most interesting player in the game because their goal from the beginning for Scarlet and Epic was to make a camera that is equally at home taking moving and still pictures. Time will only tell if Canon and Panasonic will make truly convergent still and video camera or if they will continue to make “proper” video cameras at one part of the company and DSLRs that have tacked on video capability at another part of the company.
-Andrew
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There is an interesting Barry Green article talking about the amount of aliasing the current crop of vDSLR have (and why) and that the measured resolution is somewhere between SD and 720p.
A convergence is happening, but I don’t see people abandoning prosumer cameras en masse for vDSLRs anymore than I see people abandoning professional cameras en masse for the Red One (or Epic whenever it comes out). A current gen vDSLR might be perfect for person A but horrible for person B. Horses for courses as they say. Prosumer cameras will continue to change and evolve just like they have been changing and evolving for years.
-Andrew
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When you put the PAL clips in the NTSC timeline FCP automatically scaled them to fit. Those rescaled attributes are still on the clips when you copied and pasted them into the PAL timeline. If you remove the scaling then the clips should fit.
-Andrew
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Whenever I want to matte the screen like that I use two slugs placed on the top two video tracks. I move one slug to crop off the top of the screen and the other to crop off the bottom. I find this much easier and more flexible than applying the matte filter or cropping each clip individually.
-A
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Dave,
The only reason you’ll ever need to ‘conform’ the HDV is if you are going back out to HDV. Why not just use the option to render in ProRes or use the MM to transcode everything into ProRes?
-A
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[Dave LaRonde] “If it was 1080 footage, it was INTERLACED. Only the most expensive cameras on the planet can shoot true 1080p, and aPanasonic HDX900 doesn’t qualify as such”
That might have been true a few years ago, but it’s not that way anymore. Sony’s EX cameras, for example, shoot 1080p24 and fall into the Prosumer price range.-Andrew
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