Mitch Ives
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[JLerner] “Anyone using FCP5 for 10-bit work? Is a hardware card required for this workflow?”
We edit exclusively in 10 bit. We bring everything in through SDI and use an AJA Io (highly recommended).
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Graeme Nattress] “Ah but, the lens that comes with the JVC costs what, around $1200? which is awfully cheap for an SD lens, never mind and HD lens. “
I’d guess more like $2,500. The other option is a lot higher.
[Graeme Nattress] “In addition, Panasonic provide two ports for camera control so that you can change focus and zoom at the same time. So no, it’s not quite as “nice” as a standard removable lens, but it’s as fully featured as one.”
I have yet to see an electronic option for focus that works well or is properly controllable. As someone with a boatload of experience, manual has always been the preferred choice. Let’s hope Panasonic has something new there…
[Graeme Nattress] “My feelings, from carefully viewing the footage of the JVC HD100 is that it’s very nice indeed, much nicer than the footage from the Sony HDV cameras, but it still lacks compared to the Varicam footage that I have. It looks slightly softer than the Varicam stuff, even though it’s 1280×720 rather than the Varicam’s recorded resolution of 960×720, giving rise to me thinking perhaps the lens that comes with the JVC is not the best piece of glass and is perhaps an SD quality lens, rather than an HD quality one. “
Personally, I’d chalk it up to the MPEG2 compression of HDV.
[Graeme Nattress] “But it certainly adds to the question of will Panasonic be able to put good enough glass inside the HVX200 to do justice to it’s CCD chips and codec? I guess we’ll know soon enough though!
Yes, the million dollar question.
[Graeme Nattress] “So I’d certainly doubt your final line that the JVC definately has a better optic, unless you’re privvy to more information about that lens, and if so, given the scope of my investigations so far, I’d ber very keen indeed to learn more of it. “
I don’t. The pro-sumer built lenses of thes 1/3 cameras (of which the HVX is included) have never come close to the quality of the ones from Canon and Fujinon. it takes a lot more than a niece piece of glass to make a functioning video lens.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Graeme Nattress] “But a “real” HD lens costs more than any of these cameras. “
JVC seems to be able to work with the 16X Fujinon that is affordable. Given the Panny is the also a 1/3 chip and 720p, one wonders why it wouldn’t work?
[Graeme Nattress] “AFAIK, the Panasonic HVX lens has the same features and controlability at as “real” lens, but it’s built in rather than removable.”
Absolutely NOT! The real Fijinon lens on the JVC has a full manual focus with fixed stops on either end and distance scale marks on the barrel. The Fujinon has a smoothly variable zoom (no fixed steps… no jumps). The Fujinon has the 8 pin port for using serious lens controls. It can also accomodate a lens control on the focus. The Panasonic lens has none of this…
In addition, the Fujinion is definitely a better optic.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Tim Kolb] “As Noah said, there is always another technology just around the corner…unfortunately most of us have work that needs doing today…
“Yep, and we’re using what we already have to do it. No one is asking us to change. I guess that’s the advantage to having people buy you not the equipment. We’ll look at the JVC and the Panasonic when available… the Sony is out of the running. Now if Panasonic had the 200 with a real lens like the JVC…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Solie Swan] “I have nothing to say to those who are using it successfully – I am happy that it is working for you and others. For me it is not and switching to Firefox has fixed the problem.
It might be worth fixing the problem as Safari is faster, and it’s good to have an alternative for different sites…
[Solie Swan] “Firefox has had vulnerablities but it is certainly safer than IE5.
I’d agree. I have it in second position.
[Solie Swan] “I may be wrong but I think that Safari has had vulneralbities too that get fixed with security updates and point upgrades to the OS.”
Yes, but nothing as serious as Firefox or IE…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Solie Swan] “It is a much safer and more advanced alternative to IE5!”
Forgot to add: you are apparently unaware of the three serious security breaches which occurred in Firefox recently? This is at the admission of the developers of Firefox, who had to rush out patches, once the seriousness of the problem went public.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Solie Swan] “Under Tiger, Safari constantly crashes my laptop and I have to do a hard reboot. A switch to Firefox has taken care of it. It is a much safer and more advanced alternative to IE5!”
So how do you explain all of us that never have crashes with Safari und Tiger, panther? I’m writing this to you on a laptop with Tiger and Safari…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Steve DSV] “I am trying to decide on a new HDV edit system and want to make a decision based on an easier workflow which i think the Mac will give me with FC Studio. I’m used to using one program to edit, one to title, one to export and one to author DVD. This is the same as Mac land but with my current PC system none of the programs communicate with each other, so making changes is a time consuming affair. The workflow just isn’t there. Also i seem to get a better bang per buck with G5/FCP route for the same performance and without having to use an intermediate codec like the Canopus option.”
All true. I used to edit on PC’s and I know exactly where you are… it’s intolerable.
[Steve DSV] “If i didn’t use Slow Motion then it’s a very easy decision, but i do and i need to make sure this aspect os covered before i do make the switch. “
I think you’ll find the rendered slo-mo in FCP looks better than what you currently have. I have yet to see any realtime slo-mo that can match it. FCP was the first thing to catch up to the M100 in slo-mo quality.
[Steve DSV] “Can anyone recommedn a site or info on how to get the performance and quality out of compressor2 as this seems to be abig bone of contention right now with FCP5.”
I’ve only read a few posts complaining about it. I’ve made too many DVDs with it and I’ll bet I’m fussier than most about quality, especially with MPEG2 (one of the reasons I’m a critic of HDV).
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Steve DSV] “any ideas on how to integrate FCP editing and Procoder MPEG2 encoding? Then i could just edit on the Mac and punt the MPEG2 encoding off to the dusty PC in the corner, and get on with the next project while it encodes. Then get the FW drive back and author the DVD in DVD studio? (will the FW drive be readble by pc and mac?)
“Yes, pressure Canopus to make an OS X version. Two years ago I asked them about that and they smiled and said it wouldn’t be that hard if there was demand for it. Apparently the development team for Procoder is heavy with Unix experience. Organize an email campaign and et them know Mac users still want it…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
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Very amusing… thanks for the laugh. Safari is blazingly fast… IE is a toad. The reload buton has never failed to work for us. Of course we didn’t even talk about the security issues with IE…
still laughing… thanks I needed that…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com