Graeme Nattress
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I’d certainly have liked the HVX to have no tape drive, and just have more P2 slots. I’d have found that personally compelling. Instead of the tape drive, I’d like a little computer that has the driver to run a standard hard drive, or two RAIDed built in. That’d be cool. I doubt we’ll see that until the next generation of cameras, but we can dream eh. That won’t stop me liking the HVX, but I doubt I’ll ever put a tape in the tape drive….
Graeme
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I’m sure that there will be new codecs in the future, but now is not the time. We have all the places of the DVCProHD workflow in place, and it would be daft to change that for this camera. I know it would make the quality better to distribute the bits better, but it would also then make this camera an island. Look at all the bother we’ve had with the introduction of the new HDV codec, and now JVC threw a spanner in the works with their 24p mode that nobody is supporting yet (save 3rd party vendors like LumiereHD) because they, the NLE people, have only just got normal HDV “working”.
Graeme
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Basically, I think Panasonic are trying to give us as many features as possible without making everything unique and custom for this particular camera. They already have the vari-frame 720p stuff from the Varicam – the 24p embedded in interlaced video from the DVX etc. Perhaps they’re just joining all these technologies together as best they can without spending silly budgets re-inventing everything, so that we get a camera we can afford, rather than another Varicam, which, although nice, is quite unaffordable for most of us?? Am I on the right track here Jan?? I know that if I was developing a new cost effective camera I’d try to re-use rather than re-invent as much as possible,
Graeme
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“I went to a preprogrammed preset that gives a film look and let it go. Detail in teh highlights. Detail in the shadows. Practically no visible grain even at 12db (!) and still holding detail in the bright areas. Rich color. No bleeding in the reds. And great 24 frame motion artifacting (when selected). All in 1080i…..
…..No, this isn’t a replacement for the F900! That camera still gives you twice as sharp an image, much deeper color and detail, and far more control over gamma and other set ups. Plus critical lens control you need desperately in HD (if you’re out of focus everybody knows). But as a second camera or when you don’t want to lug in the F900 – … … – it’s a godsend.” Jody Eldred quoted in the BandPro advert p35 American Cinematographer April 2005.
compare with “when the Z1U… …clearly holding up to comparisons to F900 CineAlta and even 35mm film”.
Affordable HD seems worse than religion.
Graeme
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Indeed, any video format is “comparable” to any other video format, or film for that matter. I can compare VHS to DV, or DV to 35mm. To say that one format is comparable to another is pretty much meaningless. But let’s not argue semantics.
To say that HDV from the FX1 or Z1 is even in the same ball park as HDCAM is a serious joke, and indeed, in the print adverts that quote Jody, he does not say that. I’ll have to dig out the adverts in the magazines I picked up at NAB to quote for sure though.
The 720p24 from the new JVC does look better than the CF24 from the Z1, and, indeed, probably has a lot more “real” detail and definition than full 1080i from the Z1. Measured resolution on the Z1 is very much below that of HDCAM, and indeed, the picture does look significantly worse. To say otherwise would be lying.
To compre the Z1 fabourably to 35mm film is very funny indeed.
P2 is as revolutionary as the first NLEs. Remember that they were totally unaffordable, hard drives stored too little video and cost too much and they took forever to render. Now everyone uses NLEs.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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If 3rd parties want to licence P2, they can.
But P2, from what I hear, is made to very exacting standards for total reliability. There’s little point moving away from tape if the replacement is not going to be totally reliable – it sounds to me that P2 is going to be totally reliable.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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As if the other options are any better!! A DV tape stores what, something like 12GB, Blu-Ray is at 23GB, and P2 is at 8GB per card. They’re all in the same order of magnitude, but only P2 is going to get rapidly better….
Graeme
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Ofcourse it has been developed – it’s called DVCpro50!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Panasonic predict that most people will never buy more than 2 cards with the camera, and never need more than those 2 cards either. The cards are only for temporary storage, and solutions will be rapidly coming about to fill in the gaps.
I think everyone knows that optical disc and hard disc are temporary solutions for acquisition and that as such, they are compromised for that use. The only compromise I can see with P2 is the cost/size thing, which we know will get better. Hard disc will always have reliability issues / power usage etc. and optical discs, like hard drives are still mechanical and, indeed, large and bulky.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Final Touch does seem to include features for broadcast limiting.
Graeme
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