Graeme Nattress
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Absolutely it does over SDI. Even Digital Betacam compresses your video onto tape over SDI. There’s practically no way to escape compression going to tape.
Graeme
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Well, if the resolution of the camera is not high def enough, what on earth is the point of it being a high def camera? I mean, the FX1 measures in about 800×800, which is barely an improvement over SD, and about half of what the camera is capable of, codec-wise.
Graeme
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I see it purely as a workflow issues, not a cost issue of P2. It just makes total sense to me, to be shooting with a lightweight, low power, no moving parts format. And It also makes sense to store footage for the long term on some kind of magneto-optical / optical storage, and all that I can see that’s missing, is the workflow between them. Digital Photographers have this workflow sorted, but I’m sure they were sceptical at first. P2 is very much ahead of it’s time and it may take a few years for the workflow to catch up, but it will. In the meantime, it means a camera that is probably about $10,000 less in price than the equivalent camera with tape drive would be, and we don’t need to spend another $20,000+ on a deck, assuming we’re happy backing up to optical media. To me, that’s over $30,000 I don’t need to spend to be up and editing high qualilty (assuming the camera and optics are as good as we hope) high definition video.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Absolutely – protection of high end devices from the sales of cheaper consumer / pro-sumer products is a fine art, and one which mostly works. I think it failed with DV, but not by much (as DV was ever-so-slightly too good) but will the same mistake be seen to have been made with HDV? Who knows?
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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B), as it’s digital all the way, avoiding analogue video losses. BTW, the DSR-25 only has composite and S-Video inputs. It doesn’t have component inputs or outputs – for that you need the DSR-45.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Unless the timeline is in the DV codec, the deck doesn’t know what to do, and FCP doesn’t have the power to translate 10bit video to DV in real time to do so, so I’d say that you need to change your timeline to DV and re-render, and you’ll probably have to make it 720×480 too. You’ll get still frames as FCP is kind enough to do that DV render on the fly for one frame for you, but not for a timeline.
Thanks for buying the filters!!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Unless you’re in a DV timeline, that’s not going to work.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Rendering with no fields doesn’t change the underlying media though – it just changes any effects you do on top, like motion effects, etc. Dissolves and wipes etc. become frame based rather than field based. That’s about the only difference it makes.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Problem with going back to HDV is that after that double MPEG2 compression, things start to look a little ropey. The demo footage that Sony were showing was edited footage, and it didn’t look anywere near as good as the untouched stuff direct from the camera.
As for display, I don’t know. Perhaps you can put a firewire cable between your laptop and the camera. BMD were demonstrating DVCProHD playing off the hard drive of an iPod….
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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Valid points Jeremiah, but you’re getting a little personal and heated. Fully understand, as some comments on the forum do sound as iif they’re almost designed to provoke reaction.
Respectfully,
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP