Guy Barwood
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I like the DC in connection outside the battery compartment, and the large 1394 connector (those little 4 pins are too fragile for my liking).
Len says 5.5-88mm. Thats better than the other photo with 7mm-117mm shown.
The more I look at this camera the more I love it, which is only going to frustrate me more and more because I just won’t have the money for it for some time.
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[Graeme Nattress] “The codec itself is 1280×1080 for 1080i, each frame is 1.666mp, and yes, same for 1080p.”
So DVCPRO HD 1080i/p is quite a bit more compressed than its 720p then. I guess its to be able to use the same transport for its tape format, but with P2 they wouldn’t have to limit themselves to that rate if they wanted to extend the codec some more.
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Thanks Grahame, but I wasn’t actually asking about the HDX200, but the DVCPRO HD codec itself. The 1.6666mbpf would help with calculations though.
What is the 1080i resolution for DVCPRO HD? Is it 1920×1080, 1440×1080 or I think I have even seen something odd like 1280×1080. Are these also 1.6666mbpf? What about 1080p, same mbpf?
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[mishka] “There will be two versions – 24/30/60 and 25/50”
Seriously? That’s just plain beyond me, how they can expecte people to use 25fps for 24fps productions when the camera is clearly capable of native 24fps. If this is the case that is just plain nasty. -
[Gabriel] “Same line/pixel count. Only difference is 50/25 for PAL compatibility over 24/30/60for NTSC world. “
That would be 24/25/50 for PAL wouldn’t it, just as much as 24/30/60 for NTSC.
ie neither PAL or NTSC is 24fps, so I would assume if there are PAL and NTSC models (as such), then 24fps will still be available in both versions.
You wouldn’t keep 24fps from PAL country models would you?
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[Ken Freed JVC] “Sorry Gary. It’s only a week.”
If you meant me (Guy, the annoying one with all the leading questions!) then thats ok, no harm in trying is there 😉The reason I am keen to get some questions answered is because I write an article for the Australian Video Producers Association, which has many members who would be interested in hearing about it, but the due date for the article is about the 15th. Ok so thats only one of the reasons, the other is personal interest 😉
Things like this battery info. It doesn’t matter really if it uses ‘consumer’ batteries like the ones on the DV301, but the only concern is that I find the battery life of this battery on the 301 to be very poor, especially when compared to what Sony seem to be able to get out of theirs. If the battery life comes anywhere near theirs, then it doesn’t matter, those batteries aren’t too expensive if I import them from the US (they are horrendously expensive here).
I’d like to hear your thoughts on the problem of support for pro gear here though (with no apparent Pro division in country anymore), perhaps you could set me straight on that one in the mean time.
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[js33] “120GB recording media? 1 hour HD recording time! “
Isn’t DVCPROHD 24fps about 40Mbps onto P2 which would be the same onto HDD?
That would be about 6.5hours record time on 120GB, a bit less for 25fps and 30fps but no huge drop.
PS2 is so great in so many ways but even Jan has had to admit it won’t work for some of us. Having such an option such as a custom 1.8″ HDD to plug into the P2 slot would mean it could truely work for all (thouse that can work with P2 can those that can’t can use the HDD). They can still slug us for the HDD P2s as they will still have to be proprietry to the P2 slot and interface wouldn’t they? (I assume its not just a PCMCIA interface). Perhaps even modes like 1080/60p will only work on the flash P2, but thats ok by me, it would be pretty rare I would need that so a single P2 media (that could come with the camera) could suffice.
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[Beak] “At press time JVC was still considering pricing, eyeing the Sony HVR-Z1U camcorder that’s now streeting for around $4,000. “
Here’s something to consider when pricing in Australia Ken. I am told you don’t even have a proffesional division representation in this country any more, and therefore there is no proffesional level service provided.
I showed the photo around out last Video Producers Association a few nights ago, and quite a few were like “wow, oh but look its JVC, we have no service here for JVC, what if something goes wrong with it”
Sony and Panasonic are well represented at both consumer and proffesional levels locally, JVC are not. It is a real concern. Fewer people will pay a premium for a JVC camera here now even if it is better. In fact I think it will need to be better, and cheaper than the Z1 to have a real impact here.
It’s even got me thinking twice about buying another JVC camera. JVC service never did contact me to tell me when my DV500 firmware was avaliable (it was meant to be comming from Japan) to address how it reacts to camera flash. They just abandoned me.
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[PappasArts] “This is a Toshiba PCMCIA drive:
https://store1.yimg.com/I/laptopupgrade_1836_1319194
https://store1.yimg.com/I/laptopupgrade_1838_20526017
https://www.bixnet.com/5gbpcmcihard.html “Forget that 5GB model, try the 60GB model and plug it straight into the camera to record to directly. Lets call it P2h 😉
They might not achive a stable 100Mbps though, benchmarks I have seen averaged about 80Mbps from memory. Which also means quite slow to transfer P2 off, negating the only viable P2 workflow of record,dump, reuse. No goot if it takes longer to transfer than record.
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I think that while HDV has the potential to be the DV of HD (encoders will be optimised for even better performance with time), there seems to be a little war going on to provide a step up from HDV for the same HDV prosumer market. The only one so far not clearly playing this is Sony, but Panasonic and JVC seem intent in providing higher end options than HDV at around current HDV price points. That’s where the waters are really doing to start to get fuzzy and it could become harder and harder to tell the difference between a $6000 camera and a $80,000 camera unless your watching it on a 20,000 projector 😉