Canopus Broadcast 30 Day trial available

JWinter said:
so how much is it in Japan?????????? In USD
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at PV-Station.com (Actually ... Professional Video Station), located in Shinjuku Tokyo Japan (on the west side of the train loop around downtown), their price as posted on the internet is 486,524 yen which converts directly out to approx 4,196.9 dollars, give or take a few (the rate changes daily). Also, you've got to take into account the cost of making the purchase, ... perhaps 2% with the AMEX. Forget about using Mastercard or Visa. The Japanese end of MC / Visa will not! allow (I tried) the transaction to go through (security reason)... but Amex will (same company internationally).

This is where I purchased my HVX200.... and from what the guys there told me, there have been quite a few people making the trek to Tokyo from abroad to get this particular camera.

One thing folks should know is that none of the guys there speak English, or American... hehe. You'll have to provide your own translator.

Note... the warranty is serviced in Japan and there wasn't an extended warranty offered.

refs to back up the posted numbers...
http://pv-station.com/ag_hvx200/
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=486524&from=JPY&to=USD&submit=Convert
 
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The EDIUS 30-day demo that was available prior to March 15, 2006 was EDIUS Pro v3.61.

The current EDIUS 30-day demo (since March 15, 2006) is EDIUS Pro v3.61 with Broadcast features, so it is essentially EDIUS Broadcast v3.61 trial.

The EDIUS Broadcast v3.61 trial does allow use of P2 without the dongle. Of course, until the trial ends.

Brandon
 
bhiga said:
The EDIUS 30-day demo that was available prior to March 15, 2006 was EDIUS Pro v3.61.

The current EDIUS 30-day demo (since March 15, 2006) is EDIUS Pro v3.61 with Broadcast features, so it is essentially EDIUS Broadcast v3.61 trial.

The EDIUS Broadcast v3.61 trial does allow use of P2 without the dongle. Of course, until the trial ends.

Brandon
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Will Canopus include the HD codecs with either of their trial versions any time soon?

The Avid trial works alright but I would really like to see Edius work (in dealing with an HD stream of data) first hand prior to making such a financial decision.
 
FYI,

I did some live capture tests to laptop with much success in 720/60p w/ an ext 7200rpm usb2 (no dropped frames), not much luck in 1080. Like Barry, error says hard drive is too slow. Changing OHCI buffer seems to help a little.
Maybe a firewire drive would do better?
No option in Canopus to live capture HDpro in 24p just HDV capture is available in 24p..... Darn should have got the JVC.....................NOT!!!

Cheers
 
The Canopus HQ, Canopus Lossless and Canopus HD codecs are in the trial. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to use P2, as it requires Canopus HD for the DVCPRO support.
 
Edius

Edius

Hey all! Just got my HVX and finding myself in the same boat as the rest of you. The edius seems to make sence and Barry's posts are promiseing. The only thing I want to know from all the owners of this program, is can I batch capture clips from my old DV footage (ha ha..old) and also, how good is the color correction? Really, All I'm looking for is somthing I can slam clips together, color correct and spit it out to dvd or DV. Thanks everyone

Steve
 
Sure you can batch capture from both DV and HDV devices, though HDV batch capture requires you capture to the Canopus HQ codec.

Some folks don't like our color correction, but before you pass judgement, look at all the color correction filters, as White Balance has many features others simply call Color Correction.

The ability to limit the application range by chroma and luma via the Chrominance filter, combined with being able to stack multiple correction filters on a clip yields a very powerful, albeit potentially complex (which is when you should save and use presets), combination.

Oh yeah... you'll definitely want to get one of the hardware options so you can see your color adjustments in full HD-ness.

And while I'm adding to this post, it gives me the chance to mention the split-frame ability of the color correction filters so you can see before/after, or even grab another frame from elsewhere in the timeline to do matching.

Brandon
 
I really want to know why the demo doesn't allow you to live capture 720 or 1080 - this is the one thing I want to test.
 
Thanks Brandon for your imput. Looks like I will have to get addtinal hardware after all wich is a bummer. But since most people will be looking at a reel I compose and spit out on standard DVD, is it neccesary for the hardware upgrade? This Jump into HD land Is much more costly then even I expected. Oh well, no turning back now.

Thanks;

Steve
 
bhiga said:
The Canopus HQ, Canopus Lossless and Canopus HD codecs are in the trial. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to use P2, as it requires Canopus HD for the DVCPRO support.
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Under which Generic headings are the HD codecs to be located... in thei trial version that is?

In as much, I don't do P2 -- time span is too short ... (currently).
 
Hi Richard,

Seems we're both right ... the codecs are there, but it seems for some reason sometimes they don't get installed.

A fix is being worked on.

Brandon
 
I'm going to get flamed for the stupidity of this question, but hey...

I'm trying to export back the p2 card.
In the recorder window, I click on the red Export button.
It gives me the option to export to file, but none of the exporters listed are called p2 exporter...

Is this because its the trial version, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!
M.
 
Barry_Green said:
It should say Canopus HD P2 Exporter. If you don't have that option, it might be a trial-version thing.
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Thanks Barry, it must be a limitation of the demo.

Bhinga - sorry: is this new version a new version of the demo... Is it version 4?
I'm curious as to when version 4 is expected: I would like to get Edius but am waiting to see what new features are offered in the new version...

M.
 
Hi Malcolm,

There's been no official announcement of a version 4 so there's nothing more I can say about that until such info is released. Things often change, and I'm tired of being made wrong. The new demo is an update that fixes the codec problem.

Brandon
 
FYI, that demo looks like it has been updated - as I can now capture 1080 woohoo!

I don't think they updated the release date but filename has changed.
 
bhiga:

Hi again ! I downloaded the new version and everything work just fine. Besides that I still dont like Edius layout and the mystical way the menus and overall functions are created, I mast say I am impressed by the speed it gives me working with 720p (still with the pizza MXF file) rendering is very fast and everything is in real time. Very nice ! I have one question about exporting thought, in wich format is best to export for the best of the best quality possible (when working with 720p or 1080p) ? Why am I seeing the footage squized when exporting and opening with windows media player ? I will have a lot more questions regarding chroma key, but first I mast mess around some more. 30 days trial is not much to preview everythingl, and I have alwready lost 10 with the previous disfactional version. Thanks in advance.
 
Hi Andreas,

There are things I don't like about the EDIUS layout either, but hey, if it was 100% made for me, only I could use it, heh.

For export, the best format really depends on what your intended delivery is.

If you choose a non-square pixel output (like widescreen DV, widescreen MPEG for DVD, or HDV 1080i) then the image will appear distorted in Windows Media Player because WMP does not compensate for different pixel aspect ratios, except in very few special cases.

Brandon
 
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