[Wes]

thanks for that

checked out the giant squid site but I’m a bit more confused

does the iRiver record in stereo??? With a stereo mic does that mean that I can effectively record two tracks down to the iRiver??

i.e. if I was to record a speech could one of the mics sit next to the microphone to capture clean speech then the other could sit somewhere low on thenlecturn to cpature the room noise/speech etc – and all this would be reorded in streeo to the iRiver???

am I tripping?

cheers

[Wes]

anyone with thoughts on this logic???!?!?

thanks

[Wes]

Thanks for the advice Robert and Doug, it’s much appreciated.

I’ve got my eye on one on eBay which is an “iRiver IFP-890 256M” – looks like about AUS$135 is the standard price.

Be interested to hear what lapel mics you use Doug. also how you find the quality as compared to a wireless set-up.

cheers
wes

[Wes]

Thanks Shane and Steve (have filled out my profile)

Thought of going the DV route – I’ve dealt with digibeta that way before in a similar situation with a private client and the quality was more than adequate.

However with this project we are going to broadcast and it’s important that I keep the quality to the maximum level that I can. Particularly on the HDV orginated footage, as the network this is going to isn’t convinced by what HDV has to offer and is still pushing for everything to be shot on digibeta (yet the budgets aren’t there to do this!)- I’m working on them and pushing my business to develop everything on the HDV side of things.

Shane, I grabbed about 5mins of HDV footage and using compressor rendered it into 8-bit uncompressed (took about 40mins). Within FCP on my cinema display comparing the orginal HDV to the 8-bit there is a significant loss of detail and sharpness. However doing the same comparison on my broadcast monitor it’s difficult to pick the difference! The 8bit being just a tiny touch softer but acceptable. Am I right to assume this is because with the monitor I’m comparing SD to SD and on my cinema display I’m comparing HD (HDV) to SD???

Therefore, would it be safe to assume then that given final delivery is SD, I could treat the HDV by capturing it as HDV and just rendering what I need to 8-bit. Quality would be fine?
This would mean timecode is kept as well – I can’t imagine us revisiting this project but it would be good just in case.

Also, I just made an 8-bit sequence and played the 8-bit clip out onto my monitor and it works over firewire! Even tested my system with two layers of 8bit, a speed ramp and color correction and it hadnles all this fine. This is getting great!

[Wes]

Thanks heaps for the advice

He doesn’t have a HDV deck but has the digibeta deck (they mostly do high end commercial work)

I have a Sony FX1 (and the smaller HC1) which I’ve only used to capture HDV over firewire.
So as you have suggested I could either capture HDV over firewire and render in my system – or could I use the FX1’s component outputs to capture 8-bit uncompressed throught my friend’s capture card??

Also, will using 8-bit uncompressed mean I can’t use my broadcast monitor which is hooked up over firewire?
I assume I’d need a good graphics card to make this work.

thanks heaps – I’m learning!

[Wes]

sounds good but I’m not sure that my system is going to be able to handle 8-bit uncompressed

I have a pretty basic setup of a dual G4, with 1.25RAM and very basic graphics card – it deals with DV and HDv fine but I’ve never tested it with uncompressed

I have the Sony FX1 HDV camera as my deck

??????