DVL-Digest 654 - Postings: Index HDDV camcorder? - (2) - (3) Videonics "Command Post"? HDDV camcorder? - "Perry" Steve Mullen: Don't forget that DV was originally intended to be a consumer Hi-Def format! I'm intrigued by your statement: >recording on double-speed D8 or DV. DV could work if LP can be perfected. D8 has the advantage of holding more tape.< If I remember correctly, Hi-8 tapes maxed at 90mins and the Digital8 system already records at twice V8 speed, so max Digital8 is 45mins. Have I got the wrong end of the stick? As a long time evangelist of large single chip cameras, preferably able to take 16mm movie lenses, your suggested Prosumer camcorder is very interesting. Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ HDDV camcorder? - "Perry" I think that people get very confused with the very different demands and restrictions of linear and NLE editing. MPEG gives problems with linear editing but would be fine for drama and documentary shooting for NLE editing. I would have thought you could happily use GOPs in double figures for shooting, and could therefore get very good quality Hi-Def on 25Mb/s. You would be forced to decode all the material for editing, but with the liklihood of performing film style color grading, this would happen anyway. There is absolutely no reason to have the recording format the same for both shooting, editing and subsequent transmission, as long as the respective formats offer near transparent transcoding. Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ HDDV camcorder? - "Perry" (Re Digital8 vs DV) This is just an educated guess, but I suspect Sony wanted to transform some Hi-8 camcorder production lines to Digital and creating Digital8 was the easiest way of doing it. I suspect the DV lines need completely different technology. Having worked for them for nearly 20 years, I don't believe most of the conspiracy theories people people tend to come up with. Seems more likely to be a simple pragmatic choice! Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ Videonics "Command Post"? - nospam-adamwilt@flash.net > > The big plus is the jog shuttle and the fact that you can custom program > > the buttons for anything you want. > > This statement is only mostly true and represents a huge limitation for > the Command Post. You can custom program the buttons for anything you > can currently do WITH THE KEYBOARD ALONE. Yes, but that should include invoking OneClick or similar macro add-in programs, which let you tie all sorts of mousy things to keystrokes. I haven't had a chance to try this yet; has anyone else? I plan to (in my ample spare time), simply so I tie a keypress to the "controls" and "filters" tabs in the Viewer! I use the Command Post occasionally with FCP (my biggest disincentive is the limited desk space I have; I have to shuffle things like mad to make room for it). The T-handle running the volume control is surprisingly useful. The jog/shuttle is nice, but as all it's doing is stuffing the keyboard buffer, it's possible to "jog ahead" of the program (i.e., when stepping through a multi-layered effect), just as I have a tendency to do with frenetic key-pressing. I've also found it way cool to use in Acrobat; I can jog through pages like nobody's business! The Command Post may turn out to be more useful in non-video applications... Cheers, Adam Wilt (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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