[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

First let me apologize for the delay, I should have known better that to plan a promotion around a new product, the AMQ tape. Between that tape having an initial heavy backorder and the batteries having a huge Government order placed against those(this takes priority even against older back orders)the program has been crippled with delivery problems. Based on the age of your filing you should expect the tape and batteries by the end of this month or early September.

Again I am sorry that this has happened.

Best regards,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

The smoking baby guy had your answer. You are probably overdriving the pre-amps if you are going in mic level and the output from the audio board is line level.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hey Barry,

Nice answer, you guys don’t need me around here. 😉 I could not have answered that any better.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

This deck was compatible with FCP in its day, many software folks don’t go back and find discontinued machines to maintain compatibility.

On the Front Panel of the DV1000:
The INPUT Selection must be set to DV.

That was the only trick to making it work.

Keep in mind that firewire should not be hotswapped, especially if one is a 4 pin and the other is a 6 pin, too many things can go wrong. At least one of the machines should be turned off.

Check to see if you can establish firewire from the deck to a camera, and then see if the camera will talk to the FCP and then the Deck.

Good Luck,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hey Superfly,

When your Sony friends are having to continually feed their cameras tape and have to deal with massive compression atrifacts and compressed audio and dropouts and less color resolution, you can just smile knowing that you have made none of these compromises.

Memory prices do fall by 50% per year. The 2GB card is at $900, when it was introduced it was $2000. By this fall it will be around $600 or so. Keep in mind that today many of what were DAT type recorders record on Flash Memory now. Digital Audio started before Digital Video. And we can just look at how technology advances through the industry, memory recording is on its way, and will be the standard in years to come.

On the HDV forefront, I don’t see it in the professional line and H-264 looks vastly more promising than HDV. So who knows for sure exactly what the future will bring, but memory recording is happening, and will be the future.

In the meantime you can shoot in DV until you have found clients that are wanting the HD quality.

Best regards,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[Superfly] “1. You think they used lens adapters for these DVX films?

2. Do you think they show in 24p or in 60i then had it professionally converted?”

Hi,

Since this was filmed with the DVX100A they did not have Squeeze mode available to them. The did not use an Anamorphic adapter as things just happened too fast. They shot in 24P. The very beginning of the story was shot with a PD150 and this was transformed to 24P.

Hope that helps,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[Graeme Nattress] “I just got a Canon 20D digital SLR, and it’s quite shocking how are ahead the stills camera industry is compared to video.”

Mostly I think the problem is the amount of data to be recorded is huge with video. If you think that the record times are short on a 8GB card with DVCPRO50, imagine exponentially changing the amount of data. Going from 256bit at 8 bit to 1024 at 10, or at 12 which is 4096, it changes everything. 8 Bit is/has been a compromise that has been working. As memory capacity continues to increase at costs that are acceptable, it may well be easier to do this in the future. But that is a future idea.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Most of the guys that use the DVCPRO50 know that if they are going to do a lot of color correction they tend to move to an uncompressed SDI transfer into a 10 bit system. This makes it very stable for color correction. The EBU and SMPTE did an in-depth study some years back where in analysis, the Digi-Beta and DVCPRO50 were very similar generations out.

Hope that helps,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Of coourse it will, it is only data.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

The SPX and the SDX are essentially the same camera, couple of different things, mostly centered around P2. The 800 has all of the cinegammas and 24Ps that the SDX has, but it just got the 24P back in April and I think because we have had trouble keeping up with backorder, we have’t stopped long enough to think to put it over to the Cinema series. Thanks, I’ll put it in for review.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems