Barry Green
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Raylight will give you the most metadata that you’re going to get in the FCP workflow, until FCP decides to offer proper MXF support.
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[Mitch Ives] “I don’t think it’ll be that much difference when we see it in the U.S., but you could be right.”
It already is. B&H has the HVX at $5200, and the EX1 at $7500. That’s about a 45% cost premium.
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[Mitch Ives] “and the new Sony using cheaper Cardbus 34 cards,”
According to Sony’s press release, their 16GB card is 700 Euros. That translates to US $950 or so. How is that cheaper?
Granted, lots of people were *expecting* them to be cheaper, but that doesn’t appear to be what happened in reality.
But yeah, Red’s use of CF definitely points towards some interesting lower-cost options.
[Mitch Ives] “(1/2″ chips, full res 1920x1080p, and a real lens with a foucus ring that stops, a zoom ring with markings, and an iris ring with markings… on the lens barrel).”
Yes, but it’s also 33% more expensive. I would hope that it would offer lots of improvements for that type of price increase.
Jan’s been asking for recommendations for an HVX200″A” over on DVXUser; be sure to add your requests to the list! No idea if we’ll actually get ’em, but it’s important for us to make known what we want.
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[Mike Johnson] “the 16 GB cards are just raided 4 x 4 GB secure digital cards.”
No, they’re not. They’re a lot more than that. As Sony found out; their new SxS is actually (based on today’s exchange rate) going to be *more* expensive than P2 is.
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Usually a fixed speed of 1/60th (in the US) will get rid of the flickering/banding in a TV. You normally have to use the syncro scan to get rid of the banding in a computer monitor.
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The only expresscard-to-PCMCIA adapter that will work with P2 is the DuelAdapter.
The only USB/firewire adapter that will work with P2 is the Panasonic PCD20 (or the earlier PCD10).
No other adapter will work. We’ve been down this road a thousand times… only the duel adapter, or the panasonic adapters, will work with P2 cards.
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Upgrade your FireStore’s software to version 4.0. That enables slow-mo recording. Be sure to read the documentation thoroughly so you get the proper settings right.
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[Raymond Motion Pictures] “Why is Panasonic using an old technology card that requires a Raid chip on board each P2 card to handle the bit-rate?”
Probably for the same reason Sony is using a RAID chip on their SxS cards — because the underlying memory technology is just too slow on its own.
The ExpressCard technology allows for 2.5gbps transfer rate at the bus level, but the actual SxS cards are limited to 800mbps. Just like the PCMCIA bus is capable of 1 gbps data transfer rate, but the P2 cards max out at 640mbps.
A faster theoretical bus speed doesn’t translate into real-world performance gains (I mean, the PCMCIA bus is faster than the SxS cards). The underlying memory technology is the hangup; Panasonic RAIDS together SD cards, Sony probably RAIDS together the raw components, but either way there is no memory chip that runs at 800mbps or 640mbps; it has to be done by RAIDing.
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[msacci] “Not saying I have research the Sony card, just offering a thought.”
According to Mikko who’s out on the show floor at IBC, Sony says that:
a) the EX1 will only record to SxS media, not to generic ExpressCards
b) the SxS looks like it’s actually more expensive than P2 (700 Euros for 16GB = $950 US)
c) the EX1 uses rolling-shutter CMOS technology and exhibits some “wobble”.
If you have specific questions, Mikko’s filing live news reports right from the show floor on his cell phone. You can send him a text message with any questions and he’ll try to get the answers. Keep up with the news at ibc.mikkowilson.com.
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MXF is a much more interchangeable file format; basically every editor can edit the MXF files (either natively, or through using Raylight).
So yes, just copy the CONTENTS and LASTCLIP.TXT folder — no need to go through any importing/quicktime conversion step.