[Barry Green]

The anamorphic adapter requires a significant amount of care and effort to extract the best performance from it. Once upon a time I would have said “if you’re going to film, definitely spring for the anamorphic”. Nowadays, having just seen a film print of “November” (which was shot without the anamorphic adapter) I have to reconsider that advice. “November” looked great on the big screen, easily twice as sharp as “28 Days Later”. It looked great. Sure the adapter could have made it be sharper, but is it worth it? Is it worth the effort and the focusing and the hassle?

I’d say for most purposes, Squeeze would probably be adequate (and would deliver resolution quite comparable to what “November” got). The anamorphic, when used properly, definitely provides a sharper picture on a 16:9 TV. But if you find Squeeze adequate for your purposes, it’s sure a lot easier to work in Squeeze mode than it is with the adapter.

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[Barry Green]

Anamorphics have been used on video cameras for years. You don’t unsqueeze the image; the television does that for you. The net result of using a video anamorphic (1.33x squeeze factor) is to produce a 720×480 image that looks horizontally squashed, the same as a native 16×9 DV signal does. It works quite well, and the footage is viewable on the 16×9 television at native full resolution.

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[Barry Green]

Century never released an anamorphic adapter for the DVX. They had planned on doing so, but never got a good prototype, and as of this date they still haven’t released one.

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[Barry Green]

There is no mini-jack input. You’d need a 1/8″-to-XLR adapter cable. Ifyou’re using a Sennheiser Evolution 100 wireless, the kit includes the cable you’d need.

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[Barry Green]

There’s no possible way that it’ll do 1080/50p. Not gonna happen. That’s a mistake in translation.

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[Barry Green]

Thanks for saying so! I’m glad you found value in the book and DVD, and I’m always glad to help!

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[Barry Green]

Working model will be shown at IBC, about three weeks from now.

Don’t know about when specs may be revealed. I would say Panasonic’s probably planning on letting the footage do the talking, rather than just watching another round of numbers-arguing that leads nowhere.

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[Barry Green]

I meant delivery to the consumer. Mass distribution. Tape is not now, nor likely ever will be, an option for that.

Obviously handing over HDCAM, D-5, or DVCPRO-HD tape to a broadcaster is a viable solution for that particular need, but I meant distribution to the end consumer.

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[Barry Green]

Very easy to do. Since the 24p footage is written to tape in an NTSC-compliant 60i data stream, you can freely intermix both of them, provided a) you’re editing on a 60i timeline, and b) you don’t bother removing pulldown from the 24p file. Just capture the 24p file as DV and it’ll intermix with 60i, but provide a very different “look” from the 60i video.

Also, for this circumstance, you’d want to shoot 24P Normal mode, not 24P Advanced.

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[Barry Green]

[Curtis Hight] “In FCP5 Apple actually recommends NOT to use 1080 24psf as a film out format (and as a technical aside it was left out of the FCP 5 manual as an possible HD broadcast format) and Specifically recommends the 720p24 format for filmout work from FCP 5 / FCP studio”
As Graeme said, this makes no sense. 1080/24p from the HVX is full-fledged, pure 1080/24p. 24 progressive frames per second, at 1080 resolution. Twice as many luma samples, and twice as many color samples, as 720/24p. Better in all ways (except storage space!)

[Curtis Hight] “Keep in mind that in 60 frame HD 30GB is only 30 minutes, in 24P it would probabley hold a litte more than an hour.”

In light of her comment from July 25 that I’ve posted above, is not this statement about 24p valid only for 720p and not 1080p?”
Correct — she was referencing 720/60p vs. 720/24p. In 1080 it’s always the same data rate, whether 1080/24p, 1080/30p, or 1080/60i. You always get just over one minute per gigabyte.

In 720p, the slower the frame rate the less storage space it takes up. 720/60p would give you about 8 minutes of footage on an 8gb card. If you were instead to shoot 720/4p (the slowest frame rate) you’d get about two hours of footage on that same 8gb card.

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