David Ziegelheim
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Strongly disagree. The controls offered easier, more varied, and more intuitive control.
Jon, you may not use them, but I want them back. I want them back enough that I’m inclined not to upgrade to CS6 Master Collection until the controls are back.
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I can’t believe they took out these two important controls. Shocked.
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Does that mean a KiPro could be used to capture video and then edited in Premier Pro? If so, is that supported in both CS4 and CS5? If not, will it be supported in CS6?
Thanks,
David
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Not HD, however while all the cameras in this range make good pictures, might the SDX900 still be impressive? Compared to any of the cameras listed, it looks the part.
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Is 30p over 60i or 60p considered a pulldown?
In 24p, it records natively. However, other some consumer camcorders like the HV20 and it is believed the upcoming GH-1 record 24p over 60i. There are some chroma related saw tooth artifacts every fourth frame in that format.
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Actually, there is a way to do it. You can export the tracks to two mono tracks in the File menu.
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Thanks!
I think Panasonic probably has a good lens and a good (although heavily under sampled). I haven’t been able to find any samples of the output prior to AVCHD compression.
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No…
1) The HDMI is an uncompressed video standard for TVs, etc. It competes with HD-SDI in low end professional camcorders and replaces or supplements component output in low end camorders.
2) The Firewire is data transport protocol. It competes with USB and is roughly comparable to USB 2.0. It is known as 1394a, Firewire 800, 1394b, exists, primarily on the Mac, and is double the speed.
3) DV and HDV are file formats, digitally recorded to tape. The tape holds around 2GB, which was much more than digital memory when it was introduced in the 1990s.
3) OnLocation, once called DV Rack, can read the DV, HDV, and in the recent version Panasonic’s DVCProHD files in realtime over a Firewire. It then analyzes the result. The image analyzed is as recorded to the tape. OnLocation is saving the file in the same format it received it, with all compression, etc. applied by the camera.
4) You can import HDMI to a PC using a Blackmagic Design Intensity or Intensity Pro card. It can compress to one disk in MJPEG or in uncompressed format to a RAID 0 array. You get much better images that way because the input hasn’t been compressed prior to being transmitted and the chroma subsampling is 4:2:2, matched only by DVCProHD in this class of camera. (See item 6 about the Canon 5D Mark II)
5) On a Mac, you can use Final Cut Pro to monitor the input. On a PC, you can import to Adobe Premiere Pro, viewing the image, but it doesn’t provide realtime monitoring (to the best of my knowledge). It does have a full (IMHO better than FCP) set of monitoring and editing tools.
6) While most (all?) camcorders with HDMI and all with HD-SDI outputs output a captured video stream for broadcast or capture, the Canon 5D Mark II (and I believe the Nikon D90) output the more or less VGA image displayed on the Liveview screen. It is not the captured HDMI signal and overall is pretty useless. The HDMI can be used for playback, but you are probably better off just using the Canon’s excellent 40Mb/s AVCHD file. The Nikon has a 25Mb/sec MPEG2 file…roughly the same has HDV.
All that being said, and with the 5DM2’s lack of manual control, it still produces images that can’t be matched with any combination of sub-$10k camcorder, lens, HDMI capture, and 35mm adapter. That is, you can use the same lens on the Canon that you use on the 35mm adapter, without the loses. The sensor is better than anything short of the best Cine cameras. The 40Mb/s AVCHD capture is better than any capture other than direct HD-SDI/HDMI, and is close enough that the difference isn’t huge. The AVCHD 4:2:0 chroma subsampling would be the only thing it gives away, then only to XDCAM (not XDCAM EX), DVCProHD, HDMI and HD-SDI, and its appears to store a better or equal image than either of those.
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Can you capture HDMI to a single drive?