Barry_Green
05-01-2005, 05:05 PM
Jason Brunner over on DVInfo points out this link:
http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/products/cameras/venom/pdf/venom_fs.pdf
Looks like the Viper Filmstream camera, which previously had to be chained to a hard disk array to record, is now getting a solid-state magazine. Kind of funny, everyone on the HVX board is clamoring for hard disk options, and here the Viper guys, who've always had hard disk, are now introducing solid state (roughly akin to P2 style recording!)
Runtimes look similar too -- the magazine can record 10 minutes of uncompressed, or using the 4:2:2 mode you can extend that to 18 minutes. Not too unlike an 8gb P2 card, which stores 8 minutes of 1080, or 20 minutes of 720/24p.
(obviously there's a WORLD of difference between uncompressed on a Viper, and DVCPRO-HD off a 1/3" CCD HVX -- we're not talking about that, we're just talking about similarity of workflow).
Of course, people think the $2,000 P2 card is expensive -- the Viper solid-state magazine lists for $59,000. But then again, it's a Viper... :)
http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/products/cameras/venom/pdf/venom_fs.pdf
Looks like the Viper Filmstream camera, which previously had to be chained to a hard disk array to record, is now getting a solid-state magazine. Kind of funny, everyone on the HVX board is clamoring for hard disk options, and here the Viper guys, who've always had hard disk, are now introducing solid state (roughly akin to P2 style recording!)
Runtimes look similar too -- the magazine can record 10 minutes of uncompressed, or using the 4:2:2 mode you can extend that to 18 minutes. Not too unlike an 8gb P2 card, which stores 8 minutes of 1080, or 20 minutes of 720/24p.
(obviously there's a WORLD of difference between uncompressed on a Viper, and DVCPRO-HD off a 1/3" CCD HVX -- we're not talking about that, we're just talking about similarity of workflow).
Of course, people think the $2,000 P2 card is expensive -- the Viper solid-state magazine lists for $59,000. But then again, it's a Viper... :)