[Kelseyroth]

Actually I just talked to the guy again, and he said that an AVI file is fine. But again, the only MPEG2 I-Frame encoder I see is the Matrox one, and that won’t play on a non-Matrox system.

Just to summarize:

File type: AVI
Project is 720P
Need MPEG2 I-Frame 50Mbps compression that is stand-alone (not Matrox)

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

[Kelseyroth]

OK, yes on recapture I noticed it was recording at 60p just fine. I was just confused by the timecode not going up to 60. (If you haven’t noticed this is our first layoff to HD – we haven’t had a call for it until now).

I am not assemble editing. I was either just hitting “Record” when using 1394 or RS-422, or with HD-SDI I was even just crash recording on the deck by hitting REC PLAY and playing the timeline in Premiere.

I didn’t realize that it was recording at 1080i until the guys at Master Control of the station I sent the tapes to said that both tapes were 1080i not 720p. That’s when I started doing tests here. I could tell here that they were 1080i because in Premiere Pro you cannot capture 1080i footage into a 720p project. The tapes that I recorded supposedly in 720p, could not be recaptured into the program I had just laid it off from, which was a 720p project. But they could be captured without a problem in a 1080i project. So I would assume that the footage was 1080i.

All this said, I came in this morning to do some more tests and guess what? It’s all working just fine now. I can’t explain other than just leaving the deck and computer shut off all night why it’s working now. Maybe it just needed a rest? 720p footage recorded on the deck I’m now able to recapture into a 720p project. Both the HD-SDI and 1394 inputs are working just fine. I’ll still send a tape over to Master Control to check it out, maybe the issue is on their end?

[Kelseyroth]

I’m curious about this as well. I’m always a little skeptical of the footage released by the company (I doubt they would put some garbage on their web site to promote it, so of course it looks great) so I’d love to see a review of this when it comes out. Also, is it only going to be available from their web site or will they release it through other retail vendors?

I’m wondering too, it doesn’t look like it comes with any kind of tape recording option, only their flash memory or hard-disk format, or HD-SDI. Does this mean you’ll have to carry around a portable drive or deck?

Anyways, the apparent quality and price-point certainly has my interest.