Lance Bachelder
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One of the coolest new products at NAB was the PNY QuadroFX 540 Professioanl Video Edition. It’s under $300 street price and includes an HD/SD breakout box!
They had HDV running via component from Premiere Pro in realtime and it looked great. I asked why they don’t make it for Mac and the said it’s all on Apple – they would make it for OSX in a heartbeat.
The 540 even scales HD to S-Video if you don’t have an HD monitor. It’s the perfect product for offline edit bays and would be awesome for Motion/AE.
Come on Apple!?!
https://www.pny.com/products/quadro/fx/540PciExV.asp
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Also remember everything we watch on TV is 8 bit, all DVD’s are 8 bit. 8 bit isn’t necessarily a bad thing, depends on the quality of the original footage and how it will be shown in it’s final form. 10 bit is great for effects and color grading and pulling keys but it will still be shown in 8 bit.
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I believe Vegas still renders everything in 8 bit RGB. You can render to the 10 bit codec for output to tape but not sure how Vegas is processing it all. This seems to be a problem with other NLE’s internal processing too – they support the 10 bit codecs but still do the 8 bit thing internally.
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I’m working on an animated comedy series so we haven’t had to capture or lay of to tape yet. We plan to render to the Blackmagic codec and go out to tape via the Blackmagic utility.
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According to the JVC rep who shot all the NYC 24p footage the Fujinon lens is an HD lens designed specifically for the new camera. I agree the 1080i Sony footage looks fantastic, but for digital features 24p is so important as most post “filmlook” processes are time consuming and never as good as true 24p footage.
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Totally concur Tom – I went back to the JVC booth Thurs. morning when it was peaceful in the hall and got a real good look at the JVC and talked with the rep who shot all the demo footage – this is a GREAT camera. The included lens is very acceptable and designed for the format – Fuji and Canon have mores lenses coming including a Fujinon Wide Angle HD zoom fon under 10 grand which could turn this camera into a real powerhouse. The JVC has all controls in the right places and the overall design is outstanding – very balanced and very “pro”.
My only gripe is that the image on the built-in LCD and the viewfinder looked quite poor compared to the external monitor which looked fantastic. I hope this is a prototype problem that will be fixed when the camera is released. If you look at the LCD on the FX1 or Z1 the image is crystal clear and is easy to focus – not so with the JVC’s at NAB. I wouldn’t hesitate in shooting a 24p project with this camera.
This is not to say I don’t love the Panasonic concept but we need to see footage to verify its worth. If it’s anything like the rest of the Panasonic HD line – it will be a real winner.
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I have been running the Decklink Extreme and Vegas 6 for about 2 months now. Vegas 6 is software realtime like all previous versions, however, I’m getting way better realtime external previews via Decklink than firewire and all my projects are uncompressed NTSC avi’s. The image via SDI is pristine. I am previewing via SDI to my edit monitor and component at the same time to the client monitor using the Extreme – all working perfectly. I highly recommend the Decklink boards to Vegas users.
For best realtime performance in Vegas everyone should be running at least a 2 drive Raid 0 array for media. 2 7200rpm SATA drives shows about 82MB sec. sustained using the Blackmagic drive tester. My 4 drive SATA Raid is showing up to 214MB sec. I’m using Seagate (VERY quiet) 300GB SATA’s with a Promise controller card on a dual Xeon system.
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The HVX200 is a $10,000 system (requires P2 cards to shoot HD) and will not inpact the prosumer ranks like the DVX100 has. I’m sure Adobe will support it but it is months away. Adobe just has to ad suport for DVCPRO HD and Varicam.
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You’re asking 2 weeks too early – NDA’s prevent giving any details. Wait until NAB and you’ll have all your answers… but you’re on the right track.
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