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You record 29.97fps to tape from 720p59.94 material in p2 card.
Copying & downconverting & slowing is done “realtime” by the speed of tape.
So making this half an hour of “480p59.94” material will take a whole hour.
If its possible anyway.
Get it?

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[Derek Antonio Serra] “Once P2 cards reach the 32GB mark at less than $ 500 this will definitely be the technology of choice of many filmmakers.”

Is there somewhere kind of definitive proof that p2’s prices will act totally differently in the future than all the other memory products?
So far solid state memory in a long run has doubled its capasity and halved its price in 18 months.
So if 8GB is $2k at fall2005, it might be that 32GB is $500 at fall2008.

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[Rennie] “I remember when I bought my 1st digital still camera 4 or 5 years ago and paid $450.00 for a 96mb compact flash card. They currently sell for less than $10.00 on ebay now.”

Yep, buy the camera this year, put it in a closet for five years and after that buy p2’s.
IF p2 as a format have become popular, then you might get one hour less than $2k.

I’m very happy if the camera comes to stores with cheaper price and without p2’s.
If direct to disk is possible, I’m going to buy zero p2’s and if it’s not, I’m going to buy
just one.

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There is one tweak that is possible, if these rumours about slo-mo capture to tape are real.
You could rec half an hour of 480p60/576p50 to miniDV tape and speed it up in the edit.

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Define “truly”.
Camera seems to be still in design stage (different mock-ups here and there),
so that’s propably the reason we are not getting full specs eg about ccd’s.

Could you call camera with 1280×720 ccd’s (I hope they are not having more
resolution for the sensivity issues) “truly 1080”?
With pixel shift I might…

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Kinetta is still waiting for those delayed cmos chips,
so they made a scanner with their spare time…

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“Ntsc” model: 1080@24p/30p/60i
“Pal” model: 1080@25p/50i

But if “Varicam style” ads really means what they suggests,
then it would be 720@4-60p…

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[karl] “Not sure as yet if the PAL model will shoot 1080/25p tho.”

https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/p2/p2handheld/index.html:

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Well, we are still down at 8bit colors from digibeta’s 10bits…

Video tech’s moving to the development pace of ict-sector is a kind
of two bladed sword.
On the other hand you’ll get faster development and on the other
hand new tech is getting old faster and faster.

But I’m not complaining, since the initial investment amounts are
dropping rapidly.

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