Barry_Green
Moderator
I haven't gotten that first check yet. 
Panasonic doesn't pay me a penny to promote their products. They do buy books from me, and they have brought me (and others) out to train their dealers and sales support engineers as to what the product does and to talk about how we use it to dealers and customers, and they put me in their booth at NAB to teach how variable frame rates work (along with lots of DVXUser members like Noah, Jarred, Shane Ross and Rush). But that's all as an independent consultant. I'm not an employee, I'm not on the payroll, and they can't tell me what to or not to say, and I've frequently said things that I think Panasonic employees would prefer I didn't... But overall, I talk about the product because I like it, and I think it's easily the best of the bunch.
Longer answer: Firestore can definitely be used for overcranking and undercranking, and maybe someday they'll announce a firmware update that enables 720pN recording, we'll have to see. You can record variable frame rates with the firestore and extract the sequence in post, the same workflow that VariCam shooters use. You won't be able to preview the overcrank/undercrank effect in-camera (like you can with P2) but you can definitely do overcrank/undercrank with it. Just like the VariCam -- you can't preview off-speed effects in camera, you have to run the footage through the Frame Rate Conversion utility -- but the ability to get the effect is definitely supported.
Don't know about the citidisk, that product is a big unknown as to what it can or cannot do, and when it will or won't come out.
25 to 24 for film transfer doesn't show up any conversion artifacts at all, other than as a 4% slowdown. Each frame is transferred individually and discretely to a frame of film. The audio gets time-stretched by 4%, but the video/film is imaged directly.
Panasonic doesn't pay me a penny to promote their products. They do buy books from me, and they have brought me (and others) out to train their dealers and sales support engineers as to what the product does and to talk about how we use it to dealers and customers, and they put me in their booth at NAB to teach how variable frame rates work (along with lots of DVXUser members like Noah, Jarred, Shane Ross and Rush). But that's all as an independent consultant. I'm not an employee, I'm not on the payroll, and they can't tell me what to or not to say, and I've frequently said things that I think Panasonic employees would prefer I didn't... But overall, I talk about the product because I like it, and I think it's easily the best of the bunch.Short answer: yes you are wrong.
Longer answer: Firestore can definitely be used for overcranking and undercranking, and maybe someday they'll announce a firmware update that enables 720pN recording, we'll have to see. You can record variable frame rates with the firestore and extract the sequence in post, the same workflow that VariCam shooters use. You won't be able to preview the overcrank/undercrank effect in-camera (like you can with P2) but you can definitely do overcrank/undercrank with it. Just like the VariCam -- you can't preview off-speed effects in camera, you have to run the footage through the Frame Rate Conversion utility -- but the ability to get the effect is definitely supported.Don't know about the citidisk, that product is a big unknown as to what it can or cannot do, and when it will or won't come out.
25 to 24 for film transfer doesn't show up any conversion artifacts at all, other than as a 4% slowdown. Each frame is transferred individually and discretely to a frame of film. The audio gets time-stretched by 4%, but the video/film is imaged directly.
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