Graeme Nattress
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Well, I don’t think Sony are selling that many. I think the 30,000 figure was HDV tapes, FX1, Z1 and Deck all together that are in the supply chain, not necessarily sold, or something like that. I think Barry had more details.
Personally, I don’t think HDV will be around much longer as a pro-sumer format as Sony, next year, will be telling all it’s users that HDV is no good and they now have to invest in HDVXDCAM or whatever they’ll call it. And the year after that they’ll have the high bit rate HDXDCAM and then people will be on the upgrade track again.
HDV is great for consumers as the new cameras show, but I think most consumers are ignoring video cameras in favour of digital stills cameras and using their inbuilt to memory to record video and get it into their computer.
I don’t think any of us have crystal balls, but now that we’re all editing on computer and delivering via computer, it matters not what format the video is in, as tape is dead, as long as it’s high quality and we can easily edit it.
Graeme
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Theoretically, but Panasonic have an issue with HDV in that they don’t think it looks too good. Given that their cameras stand or fall on their picture quality, they have decided not to support a sub-DVCproHD-standard high def mode so that if people see HD from the HVX200, Panasonic can be very confident about the high quality of the picture they see.
Graeme
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I think there’s more than enough room in the market for DVCproHD, P2, HDV and HDVXDCAM or whatever Sony will call their HD disc format.
Consumers are rapidly moving away from video cameras though, to stills cameras that take video (or video that takes stills, hybrid, either way you look at it), so I can certainly see where Sony is going with their new cheap HDV camera.
Graeme
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Because HDV doesn’t look as good as DVCproHD, is not as easy to edit as DVCProHD, and Panasonic are trying their best to produce a proper professional High Definition solution that’s also affordable. Why dhould companies compete by adopting the lowest common denominator?
Graeme
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From memory, F2-F1 sounds reasonable, as DV is lower field first, but to get the AA, BB bit right, you’ll have to play around as you’ve got to tell it where in the sequence you are at for the first frame of the clip.
There’s a free “cadence helper” plugin in my free section that I use for just such a purpose.
Graeme
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A few years ago I would have totally agreed that buying a DB makes sense. Today, as I point out, either rent or farm out. I don’t think it makes economic sense for someone to tie up their dollars in a deck that although utterly superb in every way, is nearing the end of it’s useful life. Although, If you’re making DB masters every day, and you could pay for the deck in a year of rental fees or whatever, sure, it makes sense, but it didn’t sound like the original poster had that kind of heavy requirements. Buying a really cheap BetaSP deck might make sense, as if the broadcaster is wanting the master on BetaSP, they’re not exactly worried about the picture quality, and any old deck should suffice. But surely just getting a dub made is easier and cheaper. You can get an awful lot of dubs done for the price of a $6000 deck.
Graeme
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Think of the DVCPro50 mode as a “freebie bonus” then. I reckon a lot of people will find it useful even if you don’t.
Graeme
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I wouldn’t bother buying either a Digital Betacam deck (way too expensive, but lovely if you’ve got the cash lying around doing nothing and you don’t mind wasting it) or a BetaSP deck (dead end technology).
What you need to do is get a good relationship going with a company that does have these decks! And get them to dub to them from whatever format you’re using, DVD, miniDV etc. etc.
If quality becomes an issue for Digital Betacam, you’re either going to have to rent one (and use a Decklink card, an IO or whatever) to get uncompressed or lightly compressed video out to it. Or, you might be able to burn a data DVD and take it to a FCP facility that has a DB deck and card for their FCP setup and could ofload the data from the DVD, put it on their fast hard drive and make a tape for you.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Thanks Don!
Further to that, there’s solutions either way – to edit in a 23.98fps or 29.97fps timeline. You’ve just got to decide if you want that cohesive 24p look, or not, and if you want to make a 24p DVD or not.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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[Jiri Vrozina] “Who will bother with DVCPRO 50 and DVCAM next year.
“Most people. HD is slowly taking off, but for most of the population it doesn’t exist. They don’t have HD broadcasts or HDTVs. That’s hardly likely to change rapidly. Also, DVCpro50 is very lightly compressed and make a superb picture. If you need high quality SD, it’s nearly digibeta at a fraction of the price. I call that useful indeed.
[Jiri Vrozina] “How many minutes can one record of “true HD” on 2 P2 sticks?(with plastic lens and 1/3″block)??
Pana Camera is an additional gear for big brother Varicam.
It is not practical gear for Weddings,Corporates etc….
“Not practical?? And HDV is?? Sounds like the kettle calling the pot black. HDV is so cheap that if you want to record an hour HDV to tape, then why not just do that, and then people who want to embrace the new ways of thinking can go and get an HVX200. The two are not mutally exclusive and can live together quite happily. They are two different products that appeal to two different market sectors.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP