Peter Cutler
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Hey, thanks a lot Chris. It looks like you’re right. I did some more looking into the metadata and found that the bit rate is listed as 102,304. And then I checked out the manual for our Io HD (not because we’re using it fr this particular job, but because I remembered it had a section on codecs/recording formats and their data rate. Anyway, it listed dvcpro hd at 6-14 MB/second, which fits with your above info.
But my question then is, what the??? I mean, obviously this is one of those things where the metrics just differ a little. But do you know much about the relationship of that 100 mbps bit rate of dvcpro 100 and the actual 10/14 MB/second throughput?
In the end, it’s kind of fortunate because we don’t have the storage solution necessary to support true 100 MB/second video, but do you know how it is that this works out?
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Yeah, the problem is that the footage is for local HD broadcast news, so I was hoping to get around 25 at a minimum (typical hd broadcast comes in at around 20 I believe). Of course the footage looks good and all, but the mbps I have here (unless I’m missing something) is a great deal lower than we (the dps, producer and I) had agreed upon.
It’s just really curious to me because both of the DPs have a ton of experience and both explicitly mentioned they were shooting at 100. And I know the cameras are capable of doing just that, so it leaves me wondering. I Might have to have a conversation with our producer, but I don’t want to do that and then find out I’m just being a dope and missing something obvious.
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Meaning, they’re not going to get any higher quality than 12 and 14 mbps? If so that’s kind of problematic because we were looking for a higher quality. Do you think they have files at 100 and just exported low bit-rate versions?