FX1E Cineframe25 Footage

[Ranger]

In another thread, I posted a link to a 200mb FX1E footage that was shot by a gentleman in Luxembourg, unfortunately the download times were prohibitively too slow. Made possible by Kerr Cook, the footage was transfered to a new location with MUCH MUCH MUCH better downloads time.

Anyway, here it is:
http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/kerr/dream-lx/sample2.wmv

[SamEdwards]

Looks excellent. I was wondering what your sharpness setting was. There's a pretty pronounced black line along the edge of white objects (like the swans). I was wondering if you've tried turning down the sharpness. Are there trade-offs?
Have you noticed a lot of break-up/macroblocking on fast movement?
thanks,
Sam

[John_Q]

I dl'ed it to my hard drive and its playing very stuttery...as if my system resoucrces were drained and it was fighting to play.

But that is not the case, So I wonder what is up with the file.

Picture quality looks good from what i can see.

[Ranger]

Looks excellent. I was wondering what your sharpness setting was. There's a pretty pronounced black line along the edge of white objects (like the swans). I was wondering if you've tried turning down the sharpness. Are there trade-offs?
Have you noticed a lot of break-up/macroblocking on fast movement?
thanks,
Sam

Sorry Sam, can't answer your questions. That's not my footage. A person from Europe shot it. I just posted the link.

[Anhar_Miah]

yes i have been just watching this from my laptop connected to my SD TV,


WOW.. its just blows everything away, very very rich colours and it really does look very filmic, and downconverted to SD!

when i first watched it, on my laptop, the colours where not all that, but boy when i watched it played through the TV, like magic the colours just changed dramictically

PS i used divx player to playback not windows media thats is slow and jerky!

[Anhar_Miah]

also this a compressed WMV video, not the raw files.
Also the jerky playback is due to the fact the windows media is very CPU intensive and ineffecient (you are playing back HD content after all)

Just use a different player

example : VLC, DivX player, etc..

[Ranger]

I dl'ed it to my hard drive and its playing very stuttery...as if my system resoucrces were drained and it was fighting to play.
Like Anhar mentioned, the choppy playback was probably the result of CPU resource issues than from the actual footage. My laptop also has trouble playing this file on WMV, but then I downloaded the 400mb MPEG version of the footage and the playback was silky smooth.

I'm very impressed with this camera!

[eclaire]

After seeing the stills of the boats (linked in another thread) and this clip, I'm thoroughly knocked out by the images produced by the FX1. The handling of hilights is especially impressive. And whether it's true 24p or not, when you pause on one of the frames from this clip, you get the same kind of full res, silky-smooth stills you get from a DVX in progressive.

I still love my DVX. But I can say I'll be most interested in the pro version of the FX1 coming out next spring and in what Panasonic and others will bring to market in the near future to compete with it. After reading a lot of skepticism about the true potential of HDV, I'm no longer deterred. I'm confident I will be shooting in that format within 2 years.

Elizabeth

[B.C.Johnson]

What's with the tire track on the right side of the screen?

[alpi69]

*And whether it's true 24p or not, when you pause on one of the frames from this clip, you get the same kind of full res, silky-smooth stills you get from a DVX in progressive.


i wondered about that too. if it is "interlaced" it should flicker.
i read in another forum it is "25p without the filmstutter".......

[Policar]

Cineframe25 is probably a LOT like the "frame mode" on the gl2 and xl1, which is pretty decent. You may get 30-50% less resolution than true progressive (depending on how it works), but you still get WAY more resolution than NTSC or PAL.

I've read that cineframe24 is terrible but cineframe30 is excellent. I suspect 25 is closer to 30 in terms of how it works, and it's probably the best option for very cheap production with film-out as the goal.

I'm waiting for 50mbps and true progressive, but until then...this looks pretty cool.

[Barry_Green]

CineFrame 25 should work exactly as CineFrame 30 does...

As far as "WAY" more resolution, I'll know the answer to that soon. However, from test grabs at DVInfo, it looks like you get more resolution, but not necessarily WAY more...

[Guest]

It is most definitely a level up from DV.

But it doesn't look like film.

[amiganr1]

was that deinterlaced?

[identity]

Is the link broken? I'm unable to download the file.