Nate Weaver
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This bit me last week. I was shooting 30p to match 2 Z1s on Tuesday, the day FCP was updated. Somebody emailed me to tell me about the FCP update while I was shooting, and I was like “Oh, awesome, I’ll be able to convert this easy and hand over”
Then I got home and realized there was no codec. VERY frustrating. Talk about bad luck.
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Just as long as the F70 deck can deal with 23.98PsF HD-SDI input, I can’t see why this wouldn’t work. That’s the golden question though…it’s documented it can output PsF, but manual says nothing about input.
You’d lose a lot of nice features of XDCAM though, such as clips and such.
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Sorry, missed the part about the deck. I would think the SD/SDI output of the deck would NOT be decimated to 4:1:1, so yes, if that’s true, it would be a good way. Just watch the detail setting on the SD output of the deck…there should be Low/Mid/High setting for that.
The SD output of the cameras is either DV 4:1:1 or composite, so that’s what I was recommending against.
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Yes. If you shoot HD and downconvert correctly (to the correct format), you wind up with color resolution much better than 4:1:1, which is what you’d get if you shot DV25 mode on the F350.
The act of resizing a 1080p frame down in software (if done with care), nets a frame with much less compression artifacts and better color res.
The downside of course being that it’s a pain in the butt to do all this
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I say this with all seriousness:
I think you should read the manual.
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You need to select the clips you want to import. Apple-A for all.
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[esp] “and at a significant lower price than the one mentioned above. “
2/3″ XDCAM HD at a price lower than $35,800 USD? Hrm. I suppose anything’s possible, but seems crazy to me.
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If it’s not, then it’s the worst unmanaged rumor of 2006 for Sony Broadcast. The mentions have been so frequent and numerous that I can’t even cite any.
Of course they could do anything without having a press release in-hand…but the rumor *I* heard is saying a 2/3″ body for release in early 2007 for “$10k more”.
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I’ve done a big job already with 7 F350s and post was cake. I feel the current cameras don’t make much sense on paper (data rates, chip size, etc), but in practical use they show their legs.
I think XDCAM HD will really pick up steam when the 2/3″ units finally show up. In the meantime, I think it’s a great in-between format, which the business sorely needed. I get my 350 on Friday!
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I’ve heard of a firmware update that will give some nice additional functionality, but a higher bitrate was not one of them.
That would be tremendous though.