Stevenbradford
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We have the all three, the Canon, the Panasonic, and the JVC.
They all make a pretty picture. After that it depends on your method of working.
Each has features unique to it that might make you decide it’s the one for you.What are you shooting? How are you editing?
The Lens on the Canon is not as good as the supposedly “SD” manual lens they’ve sold for awhile with the XL2. We did a comparison on charts and the chromatic aberations were pretty bad. We won’t be buying another one until it can be bought with the manual lens, or without the all auto lens.
That said, the canon has some very cool features that are useful to a lot of people. HD-SDI out. You could record direct to an HDCAM or DVCHDPro deck if you’d like. Or direct to a Mac with an HDSDI input card should you want to do true uncompressed recording. Also has TC in and out and camera control and shading ability over the firewire. This makes it a great low cost camera for sports and other multicamera situations.
Steven Bradford
School of Film, Video, Visual Effects
Collins College
Tempe Arizona -
You should have doubts. It’s entirely based on Memory being very very expensive. Otherwise, why would you use it? Every other application has stopped using heavy compression for origination, still photography, audio, etc.
Remember Stacker and the other utilities for saving hard drive space on a PC by compressing standard wp and other data files? When was the last time anyone used one of those programs?
Steven Bradford
School of Film, Video, Visual Effects
Collins College
Tempe Arizona -
At the last NAB I found a very interesting package called StudioSuite 8. It was a little more than we needed just for equipment tracking, as it also does billind rates, facility booking etc etc. I’m pretty sure it was less than US$1000. http://www.studiosuite.com
Steven Bradford
School of Film, Video, Visual Effects
Collins College
Tempe Arizona