Philippe Orlando
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Totally agree.
Please, leave me your phone number so I can call you and you can give me your credit card number. Or, if you think it’s OK, send it to me through a PM or email.
thanks
Phil -
After a some research AND reading my old Canon manual it appears that only the XH-G1 can do that and has a HD-SDI, the A1 doesn’t.
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In the link you sent it says: “My understanding is that the A1 does indeed give 4:2:2 colour space from the component out.”
Frankly, I doubt that
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Yes, I think the XH A1 Can’t do that.
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Yes, I understand that
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So you keep it at HDV?
If you can’t improve the quality, can you at least not degrade it by uprezing to another codec? -
“HDV uses non-square pixels (1.3333) but when you stretch them out to be square, the resolution is 1920×1080 already. So it’s not really an uprez. It’s an expansion of already existing pixels.”
So when I render HDV to 1920×1080 AVC/H.264 the expansion happens by itself or do I need to select Pixels 1.0 instead of 1.3333?
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Hi John,
1-So when I take that SSD OCZ drive and put it in a faster machine I’m about to built, very similar to yours, no need to buy Cineform anymore, right?
2-If I need to uprez HDV to 1920, what do you suggest? Which codec would give me the best quality?
Thanks
Philippe -
Well, I guess it depends of the doc you’re filming, but getting all excited by the image quality when you film a doc might not be that healthy. As long as you are able to reach a certain threshold, the return given by any improvement in image quality is trivial. If I film some people chained up to the Keystone Pipeline and being remove by the cops, with some action, I’m not sure I want the BMCC, frankly. I’ll take my Canon XH-A1, and I’m not kidding here.
Now next time I produce fiction work, then yes, I’ll put my hands on a BMCC. Content still rules. Most people who go see a doc demand to be captivated by the story and the content and the issues. They wont’ notice your depth of field and whether or not you originated the footage in 4K. -
Great, so for archiving and keeping master copies, what do you advise? The Avid Codec, Cineform or something else?