[Richard Milner]

[Daniel Berube] “2. NEWLY DEVELOPED High Definition Lens:
20x HD L/SR OIS lens (5.4mm-108mm, f/1.6-f/3.5, 72mm filter size) with Super Range Optical Image Stabilization
This is not the same lens as on the XL2, it is a newly-designed HD lens for the XL H1, and in working with it, it is simply beautiful.”

This lense sounds fantastic with one exception. It’s wide angle capablity is limited. in 16:9, it is only equivilant to about 38mm on a 35mm still camera. If you are shooting 4:3 it becomes a little less than 50mm equivilant. In 4:3, this would make a great lense for covering baseball or something where you are very far away, but if you are trying to fit into a 6×8 foot room and get a wide shot, forget it. In 16:9, it is barely passable.

If a wide angle coverter is offered, the question to ask is will the optics be compromised? What good is it to have a HD camera if the lense doesn’t deliver?

Canon is probably hitting a price point with this lense including it with the camera for less than $9,000. Much of the technology is borrowed from the 35mm and digital still image line. I assume that if successful, there will be more wide angle capable zoom lenses. That lense would probably be priced greater than $3,500 IMHO. If they can come up with a lens with about a 16x zoom capablity and having a 20mm equivilant to 35mm for 16:9 and a 28mm for 3:4, I think it would be more useful.

[Richard Milner]

At IBC, BBC Siemens announced that they are committed to FCP and AVID for the long term. Adobe is behind the curve, and Adobe will be going it alone it this space very quickly. In an IT world that is a big mistake.

Adobe may believe that it can leverage it’s photoshop-after effects-products to force the industry to accept it’s standards. That is a risky game in an MXF AAF XML world.

[Richard Milner]

Rayk,

[rayk] ” How about a good archive routine for layoff back to tape.”

Could you go into a little more detail of what functionality you’d want?

thanks for playing the game.

Richard

[Richard Milner]

I am setting up a 4 seat PP network, but instead of a NAS I am using a SAN(storage area network). This allows each computer on the network to look at the central storage as if it were a local drive, so you can share video files and projects(although you can’t work on the same project).
These solutions are more expensive than NAS because of the software required for the SAN. This could run approximately $1000 a seat or more depending on the software. also, you will need a switch. Then there is what kind of pipes are you going to put the data through. There’s been talk of using ISCSI over ethernet. Also editshare has a solution. They are less expensive than the althernative– fibre channel. Again costs here are high. Right now it ain’t just the cost of the storage.

Hope this is helpful.

[Richard Milner]

Do you know how many 25mbit streams can be supported on an Xsan with 400 GB drives a s compaed to 250 GB drives?

[Richard Milner]

No, it does it all on it’s own. That’s the strange thing.