A fellow called Switchcraft responded to an earlier message about 'indie feature workflows'. Rather than responding in the comments, I've decided to turn it into a post.
Switchcraft doth quoth:
it looks like you and me too, from what i've seen, are steering towards the Panasonic AG-HVX200 announced at NAB
Absolutely. I've worked with the Varicam before and this camera basically comes across as a cut down version of the Varicam tech - even to the point where it records variable frame rates. I assume, rather unfortunately, that it uses the exact frame 'frame tagging' method as the varicam to do it... which means my dream of it producing -cleaner- HD images is quashed. I had hoped it would only record 24/25/30P at 720P and thus spread the 100megabits over 24/25/30 pictures, rather than recording at 60P and spreading the 100megabits over 60 pictures (thus compressing the image at twice the amount).
Either way, having double the data rate and double the colour sampling of HDV is -very- significant for image quality.
Sure, it might require you to spend like $2K on P2 memory cards.. but its still overall cheaper than buying/renting a Varicam. Looks like the 'loader' on a P2 shoot is going to load a hard drive storage system (raided for redundancy of course) with image from the P2 system rather than load mags. So it isn't *ideal* [at all] for a one person shoot, but that's pretty much only matters to the documentary and pseudo documentary crowd.
As an aside, the rumours on CML indicate that the new IMX-HD cameras from Sony may only be 50megabits. WTF is this? Lets just take bigger images and compress em even more so we can fit em into the bandwidth requirements of SD.
It is shite. But it really won't be that long before we start seeing 150/200megabit 'prosumer' HD cameras.
Switchcraft doth quoth:
it looks like you and me too, from what i've seen, are steering towards the Panasonic AG-HVX200 announced at NAB
Absolutely. I've worked with the Varicam before and this camera basically comes across as a cut down version of the Varicam tech - even to the point where it records variable frame rates. I assume, rather unfortunately, that it uses the exact frame 'frame tagging' method as the varicam to do it... which means my dream of it producing -cleaner- HD images is quashed. I had hoped it would only record 24/25/30P at 720P and thus spread the 100megabits over 24/25/30 pictures, rather than recording at 60P and spreading the 100megabits over 60 pictures (thus compressing the image at twice the amount).
Either way, having double the data rate and double the colour sampling of HDV is -very- significant for image quality.
Sure, it might require you to spend like $2K on P2 memory cards.. but its still overall cheaper than buying/renting a Varicam. Looks like the 'loader' on a P2 shoot is going to load a hard drive storage system (raided for redundancy of course) with image from the P2 system rather than load mags. So it isn't *ideal* [at all] for a one person shoot, but that's pretty much only matters to the documentary and pseudo documentary crowd.
As an aside, the rumours on CML indicate that the new IMX-HD cameras from Sony may only be 50megabits. WTF is this? Lets just take bigger images and compress em even more so we can fit em into the bandwidth requirements of SD.
It is shite. But it really won't be that long before we start seeing 150/200megabit 'prosumer' HD cameras.
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