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I am pretty much where you are—I was very tempted by both the Red (who knows when that is coming out) and the 1/2″ XDCAM HD—I ended up buying the X1U to use along with my standard def cameras—-I will wait another six months to a year and that take the leap.
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This is a time of massive transition and there is no doubt that many people are having the same issues that you are having. I agree with Daniel’s post—-in that I think that Sony will have to price the 2/3″ somewhere in the 30,000 or below range.
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Yes, I have heard the announcement—–and the guess is sometime around NAB in 2007. By the way, with the Panasonic HDX model coming out in July—at a price of 26,000, the Sony XCAMHD would have be priced lower and I dont see how they can do that.
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Not hard—just create the lower third in something like Photoshop—-with a transparent background—bring it into Vegas and create a second video track above your main track.
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I guess its kind of stupid to recommend anything until we know what he his primary shooting is going to be. If he is going to film, then I could agree with the JVC.
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Z1U–best bang for the buck if you dont need 24fps. We are talking 4599 at B&H versus close to 10,000 for the Canon—-the images are very good on both.
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Definately the VX2100 (Sony) Fantastic in low light—you could also find the predecessor model the VX2000. I would stay away from the XL1 for event/wedding photography—–ergonomically its a pain and it isn’t that good in low-light shooting situations.
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Excellent company
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Over the past years its been around NAB time. However, I dont think its going to be coming out then.
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Progressive video means that every pixel on the screen is refreshed in order (in the case of a computer monitor), or simultaneously (in the case of film). Interlaced video is refreshed to the screen twice every frame – first every Even scanline is refreshed (the little gun at the back of your Cathode Ray Tube shoots all the correct phosphors on the even numbered rows of pixels) and then every Odd scanline. This means that while NTSC has a framerate of 29.97, the screen is actually being partially redrawn every 59.94 times a second. A half-frame is being drawn to the screen every 60th of a second, in other words. This leads to the notion of fields. Progressive gives you higher quality but interlaced is the norm for the kind of stuff you are shooting.