DVL-Digest 726 - Postings: Index arctic temperatures HD Investment vs. Profit (A battle plan for Panasonic) tape to film to tape (was: Dead Pixel (sort of) & Time Code) where to look at gear hands on [OFF] Macworld Expo Hotels & transport arctic temperatures - "Perry" just in passing, I remember chatting to our Russian Sales rep a few years ago and he told me some places in Siberia can go lower than -60deg Celsius during the day! This is REAL temps, no allowance for wind chill. Apparently below -55 they keep the kids indoors because at that temp your skin sticks to metalwork so it can get very dangerous. I've worked at -35deg in Scandinavia and with a bone dry atmosphere and no wind, it isn't too bad at all. The worst cold I ever felt was on the Belgian plains with a damp atmosphere and the wind howling in from the East. Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ HD Investment vs. Profit (A battle plan for Panasonic) - Adam Wilt What a great thread! Thanks, Danny and Bill and others! > Apple is a ... proven, tenacious survivor, with suitors willing to > pay a premium. > > Apple has more brand loyalty than either Sony or Panasonic will ever > hope to have.... We'll see how well this loyalty holds -- and how well Apple survives -- with the transition to the Aqua UI on OS X. I am alternately enthused and appalled by what I see. It's way, way, cool -- yet it throws so many human interface guidelines out the window that it may wind up driving off as many of the Mac faithful as it pulls in from the non-Mac community. At times, OS X is downright user-abusive, a far cry from the human-centric philosophy that makes the Mac the special sort of thing it is. Make no mistake: the OS X transition is the biggest change in the Mac user experience ever. The 68k/PowerPC switch was nothing by comparison. Given the current hard times in the small computer market as a whole, and Apple's inventory glut, this would be a difficult time to convince everyone to drink Steve's Kool-Aid. I do hope that OS 9.x will be supported for quite some time to come and will continue to be offered as an installed OS. > Panasonic should link with Apple and Pinnacle and make us low cost 720P > camcorders that work perfectly with that NLE HD system... > That Pana camera bundled with a fast mac and cinewave card would > bring the price of HD down to an almost reasonable level. Don't discount this scenario! It won't hit that low price point you're looking for anytime soon, but little birds tell me some interesting developments are afoot... Cheers, Adam Wilt tape to film to tape (was: Dead Pixel (sort of) & Time Code) - Adam Wilt Sure, technically it can, but it doesn't yield an acceptable result, and so > isn't used in video releases of feature shot on dv and transferred to film. > This is according to Jeremy Poynton, US rep for Swiss Effects,... I wonder... I've heard of people going from tape to film, then back to tape, specifically to imbue their productions with "film look", and being quite happy with the result. The resulting tape may suffer in terms of motion rendering and reproduction of the tonal scale and noise/grain structure of the original -- but if the effect you're looking for is stuttery 24fps motion rendering, film-style granularity, and the addition of a bit of gate weave, tape to film to tape may be just the thing. Technical accuracy is always subordinate to artistic intent; it's the look you want that counts. Remember as well that the various transfer houses are improving their processes almost on a daily basis, so the "rules" in this game are constantly shifting. I'm also becoming more and more puzzled with Swiss Effects and their recommended procedures. For example, they specifically recommend against using 16:9 on the XL1 -- yet in tests I shot last weekend, the XL1 in 16:9 made a far superior image compared to an XL1 in 4:3, scaled by 133.33% to fit into a Final Cut Pro 16:9 sequence. The PD150, OTOH, does a comparatively poor job of 16:9 in-camera conversion; the scaling looks identical to that done in FCP, and the PD150 adds excessive vertical enhancement as part of the process. Yet SwissEffects *recommends* 16:9 in the VX2000/PD150, and with the default (too high, very "video-like") sharpness setting to boot. Odd. I'll need to do the same tests with Premiere and AfterEffects before I reach any firm conclusions. But what I get out of the testing so far is that even the experts may not necessarily have all the answers. So the best advice I can offer at this point is former President Reagan's "trust, but verify!" :-) Cheers, Adam Wilt where to look at gear hands on - Adam Wilt I want to shop light kits and wireless mics specifically and I'm the type > that wants to see, feel, touch before I buy. I'd like to make the best > decision I can the first time. Some kinda weirdo, huh? :-) > I live in Williamsburg, VA and will travel if necessary. I'd prefer a > Wash. DC location at most but I'll travel further if I gotta. Ever since Brenner Cine/Sound on Wisconsin Avenue closed its doors, I've been in mourning... but Pro Products, previously mentioned, is pretty good (and they're the only folks I could find in a Google search that carry the Ikegami DVCAM camcorders), and I've also had good luck with CTL in Silver Spring (http://www.ctlcommunications.com). If you're willing to range further afield, B&H in Manhattan is a superb place to put hands on -- and not a bad place to order from, either. While you're there, there are a half-dozen high-end rental/sales facilities between Union Square and 51st street with good showrooms and helpful staff. Just grab a Yellow Pages and look 'em up. When I lived in central NJ I'd go to NYC and spend a day "getting educated" this way, often to the detriment of my wallet, as I'd see a used fluid head on the cheap, or a good deal on a mic! Cheers, Adam Wilt [OFF] Macworld Expo Hotels & transport - Adam Wilt ... All the necessary maps (BART stations, Motel 6 locations) are > available on the web.... BART is at http://www.bart.org/. Also consider staying down the SF peninsula and taking Caltrain (commuter rail, double-decker railcars). It runs less frequently than BART but it's not too bad. The MacWorld stop is 4th and King -- and in previous years there's always been a MacWorld shuttle bus to run you up to Moscone center. Without the bus, it's a 15-20 minute walk up 4th street (and it's usually a walk at night after the DV Cafe, etc!). Schedules and fares at http://www.caltrain.org/caltrain/index.html. Think of it: you can camp out in a cheesy motel amongst the titans of the industry... Pinnacle, Sony, Canopus, and yes, Apple itself! Feel the power! Soak in the atmosphere! See the former Ampex campus (pretty much only the sign remains)! Tour the office park where Abekas and Next hung out in their glory days! Ride the train to MacWorld, laughing at the dot-commers in their overpriced BMWs sitting stuck in gridlock alongside the Chevys and Fords! (Note: no refunds provided on the "power, atmosphere, and glory magical mystery tour.") Cheers, Adam Wilt (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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