Steve Freebairn
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I’m a Glidecam fan myself. I think (and it’s just an oppinion) that Glidecam is better than varizoom. There products don’t seem as professional.
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I’m kind of surprised that you didn’t mention anything about Depth of Field, which is an area where film is still very much King. a 1/3 inch hd camera has similar depth of field properties to Super8. a 2/3inch ccd camera is roughly equivalent to 16 mm, and you would need a 1.377 inch ccd to equal 35mm’s depth of field.
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Has anyone tried using a dell 2405fpw monitor? It has component HD in built in. If you didn’t want to use component in, you could use the HDlink to the monitor. When I get the HVX200, I’d also like to get a 2405fpw (this monitor is capable of displaying 1080p and is 2-300 cheaper than a 23 inch apple) and mount it in a pelican case, so that I can tote it around without having to worry whether it will get damaged.
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They both are very good. Even though I love premiere, there are things that FCP does well. Like working with Film originated material. In using it though, there are also things that I’m surprised that it is lacking. For the sake of time, i’ll just give two examples.
1. In premiere if you want to trim the head of a clip and automatically have the rest of the project (or clip) slide over to fill the trim, you push CTRL. I asked many FCP users and no one new of a way to do it. I’m not saying it can’t “close the gap” in fact, it tries closing the gap even when it shouldn’t, but it is nice to be able to grab a clip and shorten/lengthen a clip by holding down CTRL.
2. When you slow footage down, there is no magical “Maintain Audio Pitch” button, which isn’t used all the time but it can be used. (it really isn’t a big deal, but I was shocked that the program that everyone says they love and is the best didn’t have all of Premiere’s features and then some, it actually had different features)
Ok, so those aren’t huge, but I’m curious why you don’t use AVID on a mac, if you’ve already used it. HDV works just fine on PCs and Macs, although you’ll pay more for the mac side of things. Storage is where you’ll really get taken.
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So, has the component output signal been compressed with DVCProHD or is it uncompressed 4:2:2 output?
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in response to sending the 100gb to a client across the country, I remembered seeing a device a while back that they are marketing toward Digital theatres, that uses a device on one end of the connection (either the sending or the receiving end, but I think it is mainly for the sending end) and it uses a high speed connection to transfer terrabytes of information overnight to clients around the world. It verifies data after it is transferred and used some special techonologies to use as much bandwidth on the net as it could find. It was very impressive, but I haven’t been able to find out where I saw it. You might look into file transfers on google and then look for hardware options. The box also let your client log on from anywhere in the world and start downloading. Although, it seems like if they only had DSL, that they’d be downloading for days.
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It comes with everything, i think they learned from the mistake of 6.5. I own it.
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cinefram 24 is terrible, do a search for adam wilt’s article on cineframe 24 through google and you’ll see why it is so terrible. My next camera will be the HVX200.
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Download it and try it out. I’ve quite impressed with how devoted the company is to improving the product. Their last release 1.3 to 1.4 gave 4x the playback quality in a few of the modes. If you read the documentation, it doesn’t transcode your image (except if you are using the lowest setting (red) as an offline solution). The files work just fine in 1.5 and 2.0 and it basically does what FCP does, meaning it makes a wrapper that the NLE works with. Plus for only a few hundred bucks, it is way cheaper than paying for a whole NLE, that has bugs of its own 🙂
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well, you could have it ease to a stop and then you could export the last frame as an image and then put that at the end of the “eased” footage.