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They emailed me today with a pdf for the FS-100 which the tech specs say it does record in 1080i/p mode.
Chris
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I looked at the firestore website and could not track down the model that would record 1080p 30fps. I emailed them this same question and if they have something I guess they will get back to me, if not, I will know because they wont get back to me.
Chris
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I didn’t know the framestore thing did 1080p, I will revisit its web site.
The Cineporter thing is HUGH. I guess, all in all, its not as heavy as a full size camera though.
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I think what we have here is failure to be hip…
One of these days I will get hip and see the practicality of transferring a whole wade of footage to my editing software. Sense the advent of minDV and the lower and lower price of hard drive space there has been a trend to just dig/transfer everything. This is an editors dream if you have lots of time to edit each project, its an editors nightmare if you have to turn the project around quickly. Wading through 4 hours of tape rather then a producer selecting (and focusing the project) let say 90 minutes worth of stuff get you on your way faster with good results. I have long been an advocate of producers doing their job so editors can do their job better. The vision of editor as artist really hurts when you have an ocean of footage and just a few hours to shape it.
This new transfer vs. dig methodology seems to me invites one to a drowning session each time. I too like super fast ingest but it is not such a critical thing if you just dig the relevant stuff. I know you want more material when you cut but, gees 40 minutes per disk is a lot of extraneous stuff to wade thought for the sweet stuff. I know this is uncool, but I don
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I did several one hour shows with XDCAM and simply diged as usual. Are you guys mixing things up as if they are the same thing? To dig is to dig, to transfer seems like you are talking about finder level stuff where you try to access the XDCAM HD disk as if its an external drive and drag files from it to a hard drive, is this what you are talking about? Is this why you are talking about extra software to see these files through QT? Shouldn
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I don’t know.
Chris
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If you are going back to film transfer then cut at 24fps. If you are never going to go to the original camera neg and cut that, do the whole thing 30/29.9 fps.
ALL the films you see on NTSC are transfered at 30fps, and the good ones look good, the bad ones, they look better then they should.
Chris
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Finishing or on lining calls on a different set of needs then off lining or actually cutting something. Of course we have all started and finished projects with online resolution material so there is a blur there because we are not separating the two disciplines.
One nice thing in Symphony Nitrus HD is real-time all the time. I would only call that feature nice because, at the point of finishing, your not testing several effects many times until you have a look you like, you have already done that in the offline. So realtime is just nice.
For Niturs the image is fantastic, I have done very little with FCP HD uncompressed so I cant speak to a comparison of the two systems image quality but, I do like the way the Symphony material looks.
I prefer FCP for everything but effects work, Avid makes effects work fun, FCP makes it tedious. If you are conforming from an Avid offline you have already done the effect work, if its from FCP you have some work to do but what fun it is.
Once you get your project into a Symphony system you have a much better color corrector, and if you should need to do any frame clean up and have a need for the 8 point tracker, you have the right system to work with. The FCP color correction options are fine and work well, this is an area that is more operator dependent then system dependent, though I do like the greater controls in the Avid system.
There was a time I hated the FCP sound mixing methodology, the rubber bands, now, its a grind to mix with Avid, I like the tracks in small mode and with Avid if you want to do the rubber band thing you must make the tracks bigger, so there
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I will offer an opinion regarding the question of P2 vs. XDCAM, not cameras. The cow published a magazine which had a review of the new Sony XDCAMHD, WOW! Its a good place to start if your asking about XDCAMHD cameras.
I worked with XDCAM (never P2) and I was extremely impressed. I didn