Mitch Ives
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As everyone has pointed out, the 500 and the 200 are not the same chips.
Comparing the EX-1 to the 200 is a difficult task… the EX-1 has a far superior camera head and lens, but records to a far inferior format… and of course there is the CMOS baggage and tradeoffs with the EX-1 as well. Comparing the EX-1 to the 500 is even more difficult.
You can chase down resolution charts, but in the end, I think you’ll want to shoot with both and bring the footage into an editing system. Connecting the cameras to monitors is a completely meaningless exercise… unless of course you never have to actually record or edit anything.
Walk the footage through YOUR production chain and then decide. Personally, I think you’ll do fine with either camera. My 200’s have made me more money than any of the cameras I’ve ever owned… but then again (to quote my friend Bill) “it ain’t the piano, it’s the piano player… always has been”.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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[walter biscardi] “You mean vs. the TV Logic? Have you seen them side by side? both can reproduce color quite well, but TV Logic far exceeds in picture quality, color reproduction and black reproduction. I had the 24″ TV Logic and 17″ Panasonic side by side by side with my Sony 20” Broadcast PVM20L5/1 multi-format HD monitor for a week. TV Logic was the best of the bunch by far. “
No, actually I meant compared to the JVC. I no longer consider the 20L5, since it hadn’t been available for some time now. At this point, we’re all comparing LCDs. I’ve had the Sony, JVC and Panasonic side-by side, and all of us agreed the Panasonic was the clear winner. Sony and JVC can’t tolerate moving objects like the Panasonic. Until Panasonic’s patent runs out, I suspect it’ll be that way.
Like most things, this subjective, but when five of us all come to the same conclusion, it seems to be a bit less subjective. Is it possible that your Panasonic 17 isn’t performing up to par, or is out of calibration? Just a thought…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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I’m going to disagree. The Panasonic 17 or 26 are the way to go. They look way better IMO, the waveform is a must (not a good idea) and they have a patented algorithm that neither Sony or JVC have that eliminate the notorious movement of motion on LCDs (like panning creates).
My $.02
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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yes… blue is such a soothing color…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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You cant get answers on future products on the trade show floor either. Thats policy. What you can do is bitch and moan about the stuff you want to the people who really matter and have more power than that temp guy at the booth who’s been hired away for a week from the Apple Store in Dayton.
Actually I avoid those types… and talk to established contacts there.
[Michael Horton] “Plus you get to eat crappy food and hang with Jerry Hofmann. “
Actually, it’s to see if I could ever keep up with you in the after show drinking dept… seeing Gary scream and bang on the microphone, watching the original reality show… you making people act outrageous to win something. I really think you should get credit for creating that genre…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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[Paul Dickin] “a) Final Cut Server – ie FCP’s Media Manager totally fixed and made bomb-proof with an internal asset database, AND fully integrated into a scalable external databased media storage solution, and
b) Apple Xnas – a state of the art lower end (lower cost) shared storage solution, NAS rather than SAN, that would allow us smaller edit facilities access to a shared storage solution that we can afford, and manage without expensive specialist support.
c) Also QuickTime needs to be updated to fully cope with clip management and databasing in a MXF-metadata world. I guess this is part of the problem in getting FCServer to market, as the preservation of metadata is crucial to server management of assets. Timecode was a tape-based solution which is inadequate in a tapeless workflow – I mean VITC hasn’t even made it into QuickTime, we’re all working in Tape Counter mode 😉
d) Lastly DVD SP brought into the Blu-ray era, but fully, with control over the whole navigation interactivity of the new format. And with the DRM nonsense reworked to be of benefit to a small corporate edit facility, not just for Hollywood production studios. “
nice list…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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[walter biscardi] “The most insane statement from Apple is that we can go to the Retail Stores to learn more about the products. If Apple wants to hire video and audio professionals to start staffing their stores, this could work. If Apple expects their standard retail employees to sell me on Final Cut Studio 2, that’s unrealistic and it’s not fair to those employees. “
well said Walter… that statement is ludicrous. If I had a nickel for everytime I overheard someone at an Apple store giving out incorrect info on FCP, etc. I could retire. We had a post house here in town get told totally wrong info when buying a whole FCP system, that they considered suing the store, since the 3rd party editing hardware that was recommended wouldn’t work together with the machine they bought there. Children and chainsaws…
Yesterday, I had to listen to some twenty year old guy tell me why no one needs and iPhone case with a belt clip. I didn’t want to tell him that I’ve been using cell phones longer than he’s been alive…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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[Michael Horton] ” The way I’m spinning this decision is if you really want to talk to the folks from the FCS team and I mean the ones that really matter; the ones that make decisions on your behalf, then you’ll find them April 16. They will be right up on stage and after that out in the hall. Try finding them on the show floor at their giant booth at a giant trade show like NAB. Yes, they are there, but just try and find them. “
Michael, I understand (and respect) your thoughts, but the truth is that at the SuperMeet those guys can’t discuss anything in the future at all, so they usually can’t answer any questions. Everyone wonders where the hell Blue-Ray support is… those guys won’t be able to comment. As for influencing them… we’ve had the same wish list for at least 3 years, and we’re still waiting for much of it… better media mgt, an actual real database in FCP, etc.
Apple gets to do what they want. This isn’t about money, they have more cash than Toyota at this point. I’m not sure what it’s about, but I think they missed a huge opportunity. This raises serious questions (and concerns) about the importance (and future) of the pro apps. It also diminishes the importance (in Apple’s eyes) of FCP server.
We can spin this anyway we want, but this didn’t help anything… it only hurt…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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[Craig Seeman] “So Blu-Ray support in DVDStudio Pro isn’t going to be a big announcement? There’s at least 10 or 15 of us waiting for that worldwide. “
A helluva a lot more than that. This is the single biggest source of embarrassment to Apple… talk about asleep at the switch…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro
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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “Yoou are allowed one battery in cargo, aka luggage and cases with gear in them, a singular battery, it must be attached to the camera, or recorder. All else has to be in the carry on. In your carry on you can have up to 25 grams of Lithium Ion. In each of the HVX batteries you have about 2 1/2 grams.”
Jan, I may be wrong, but I’ve been on all three sites and according to all three, as of 1/1/2008:
1) you may not have any batteries in your checked luggage
2) you may have one battery in the camera
3) you may have a maximum of two spare batteries in your carry-on (separated in bags)
4) the gram exemption has been removed… there is no break for small batteries anymore… it doesn’t matter what their size is, it’s a max of two. They do mention a max, and warned that some laptops batteries exceed this and will not be allowed.
They may not have spooled up on this at the airports yet, but they will any day now, just like they did with the liquids. It went into effect, but it was a while before they actually started enforcing it at the airports…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro