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agreed - good stuff, I linked to it and added some more thoughts, and then he responded to some further questions of mine - if anyone still interested in exploring the topic, post is at:
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ALL these kinds of sites are a TON of work - I think most folks don't realize how much work it takes to maintain, moderate, foster, handle all the myriad BS it takes to keep these things up and...

I never said or indicated that - you need XEON processor (presently only in the Mac Pro) to capture to ProRes according to the Apple document I quoted.

-mike

Nope, I think P2 support came in under 5.0.x somewhere in there. But with v4.5, you are definitely in trouble to ingest. Go ahead and upgrade to the latest.

basically, it gives you calibration controls like a "normal" CRT would...except we aren't dealing with SMPTE C phosphors. So you can calibrate it to be balanced, but balanced to what is the catch....

$500 is cheap for what you get - yes, Final Touch HD was $5000. And now it is included, and does more. Actually, it does 2K, and that was the $25,000 version...

YES - I'll be at the Apple event and reporting on it as soon as possible thereafter. I'll be sitting there taking notes on my laptop, then posting it all up thereafter, so you'll be able to get all...

Viewer, Canvas, exporting, all give different looks.

Nothing BMD sells is $5K - $250 to $2500, "regular" HD cards are $1000.

cineform for HD is in the 15-20 MB/sec I THINK, don't know for sure

nope - but these kinds of things are to be expected if you don't update your apps for a couple of years...

...and then 3:2 pulldown can be removed later from the D-beta in the MPEG-2 authoring process. Not a big problem.

everything that travels over FireWire on that camera is the exact same quality of what you'd get on P2 or FireStore.

-mike

I ended up buying a Sony SXRD for best picture quality & size for the money - got a 1080p unit, because I'm a freek for resolution. Keep in mind, AppleTV drives 1280x720 @ 24fps as the MAXIMUM frame...

....and this is where having cleanest possible source with as little compression as possible makes a huge difference. It isn't that film tools are better, just that they have better quality source...

yep.

I'm tracking both formats, and bought an HD-DVD recently on a whim because it was a $150 upgrade over the uprezzing DVD player I was going to buy anyway.

Blu-ray discs have been outselling HD-DVD...

24 over 60 works in FCP, I've done it.

it makes for a low cost monitoring solution is the big advantage for most folks - you can monitor on low cost HDTVs (with usual non-professional feature lack caveat).

For capture - if you have an...

If you can afford the Varicam, use it.

what is possible - shoot HD, compress to H.264 or MPEG-2 HD content, put as HD-DVD content on a standard DVD burnable media, and put into an HD-DVD player, than can connect to SDTV or HDTV. Of...

DeckLink HD Pro X does more cost less

I blogged on this at one point last year....dunno the link off the top of my head, on hdforindies.com in the archives....

if he shot on HVX, it's got compression artifacts, and playing the file back out uncompressed ain't changin' it. If you save a JPEG as a Photoshop doc, it doesn't make it look any prettier.

As for...

I'm not positive FCP 6 is out in a couple of months. We'll find out an announced timeline at NAB. But remember, most stuff that isn't shipping at NAB is said to ship "in a few months" - and it...

Uprezzing? No no no no no!

They go back to the film and re-transfer to HD. Telecine is the process to get film to video. Think of it as a scanner - broadcast and DVD material is transferred at D1...