Ron Shook
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Bill,
[Bill Stephan] “If your dissolves look noisy, the bit rate for the MPEG encoding is too low, or you need to do VBR encoding. A dissolve is the most difficult piece of video to encode, as every pixel is changing across both space and time. That is what MPEG tries to compress. If every pixel is changing, it doesn’t compress well and the picture quality suffers (looks noisy).”
All very true, but it sounds to me like his problem is in the other direction, i.e., too high a bit rate. I don’t know Compressor, but “60 minute” sounds like max DVD bit rate which would make the results jumpy at least in spots on many set top players.
Maybe?
Ron Shook
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Tom,
[Tom] “Matrox says it is upgrading drivers for the new Premiere.”
Thought I heard recently the new drivers were out, but could be wrong. In any case if you don’t get an answer here go to the Matrox Editing forum and someone will be able to tell you eventually.
Ron Shook
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Chris,
[Blub] “I understand the latest electric wheelchairs are wonderful, get you where your going with out the huffing and puffing.”
So…, if I can just hold out until Medicaid’ll pay for it. (g)
Ron
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Noah,
[Noah Kadner] “Can we all be friends now?”
I’d like that. I’m sorry too. I apologize. I was wrong to keep harping on it, for Pete’s sake, literally. He handled it better than I did.
Ron
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Noah,
[Noah Kadner] “I was responding to the original poster’s question not yours. It was not meant as an insult.”
I’m sure it wasn’t meant as an insult, but you can’t assume and dismiss anyone’s motivation for asking a question whether myself or Pete. For all you know, Pete could be an experienced news shooter, let go in a budget cut, who’s looking to survive by stringing and needs answers. I’d be willing to bet that there’s not a top news shooter alive who hasn’t been in situations where he or she would have given their eye teeth to have an autofocus switch on their $50k camcorder. Hot, humid day. You’ve run a quarter mile to get to the scene at twilight. You’re blowing like a sick cow, because the reporter won’t carry anything and station cuts have slashed your audio guy. Try as you will you can’t keep from fogging the viewfinder, You can see well enough to aim, but focus, no way. It’s happening now, and you can’t even take the time to look at the lens and guess. Oh, yeah, and it’s HD and sure as the earth revolves around the sun, you’re gonna be out of focus, maybe badly. The cable gal with the PD170 or DVX100 or, need I say, HVX200, who beat you to the scene, makes your best efforts look like a blind novice.
Ron Shook
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Thanks Barry, and I’m sure Pete thanks you.
Ron Shook
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Noah,
[Noah Kadner] “With respect if you’re getting this camera with the intention of shooting with autofocus on you’re probably buying way too much camera for your needs.”
With respect, you’re edging close to insulting. I’ve never had a camera with auto-focus. In another 20 years when your eyes refuse to respond as they used to and you’re near the end of a long hard day and have to run and gun in a crowd with your eyes getting blurry, you might change your tune.
Lordy, would someone please let an older dude with 35 years of experience with non-toy cameras know how the auto-focus works on the delivered HVX200 production model?
Thanks,
Ron Shook
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Pete,
[Pete] “Does it have any auto focus? If so, does it perform the same as the 100A, slow but reasonably accurate?”
Yes, it has autofocus. I don’t know about its performance but would like to hear about it. I’ve only seen a preproduction prototype and the auto focus on that was so slow that it was only usable for setting up a shot, unusable in real time.
Ron Shook
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David,
[David Saraceno] “Because despite it what appears, you can only use this to download footage from the cam or p2 card, not capture directly except for DV25, as I understand it.”
Zowie, kinda a problem, I’d say. We’ll see what they have to say and show at NAB.
Ron Shook
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David and everyone,
[David Saraceno] “like the Firestore or Cineporter”
I’m curious why no one ever mentions the CitiDisk Unit on this forum:
Nearly half the price of Firestore or Cineporter, more compact and a variety of mounting options? I know that they had some real problems with their initial DV offering several years ago, but those seem to have been worked out nicely. I just talk to a guy who’s had two DV units for nearly two years with zero problems.
Like the other units, it’s not quite out yet, but may beat both of the others to the starting line.
Ron Shook