Panasonic HDV for Event Videographer?

I think the new codec is going to be aimed at prosumers and perhaps we will see it in a tapeless HVX in the near future. However I don't expect Panasonic is going to turn it's back on the current HVX Codec since it is more a step in the right direction but before the sun comes up!
What I mean is that in the near future the cost of the P2 are gonna scale and it is not going to be a cost issue. Of course it may not seem like that for many of us but I was at the Broadcast show in Beijing early August which was 1 month ahead of IBC and they announced the new AVC HD codec there along with a mock up of P2 cards going from 8GB - 100GB in 2010 or something like that!

Therefore the AVC HD is probably going to be replacing the DV tapes in all their camcorders and we will have that "option" on the future gen HVX or whatever.

My guess is you are going to have a scene setting for the AVC HD and use it when you are in the field and need to maximize storage.

Ummmmmm yes this is all useless speculation -but it is a case of shooting the fish in the barrel till Panasonic give some concrete indication of what they plan to do....

pffzt zzzip it!

david
 
pto2212 said:
A Z1? Dont go there... stick with Canon or Panny, cause Sony is bound to screw you.
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Might wait and see what the new V1 is all about. 24P?

The new Canon's too.
 
I really like the idea of AVC-HD being integrated into the HVX. Think about it, Panny would sell a ton of these cameras because the event videographer would finally jump aboard on the HVX, and they would be able to use the same camera for corporate videography or movies using the pure HD side of it. There would be no reason to go with the DVX anymore so pretty much everyone and their mothers would upgrade.

I mean- SD would be useless if this all-in-wonder HVX were to exist...
 
Hmm .. but you're all talking as if the HVX is the best-of-breed camera that is only being held back by it's storage method ... It's a great cam, but it's far from perfect .. chips are pretty low res, low light leaves a lot to be desired...

personally I'm feeling that the stakes are being stepped up fairly quickly-- I think that the A1/G1 and V1 cams show that the manufacturers are starting to take this seriously- competition is definitely getting healthier.

The next-gen cams should be really exciting. Hopefully Solidstate/HardDisk recording, full-frame progressive scanning, HD native full-res sensors, AVC-based cams really won't be far away.

I think that all current prosumer HD cams will look very "transitional HD" in a year's time. The HVX will probably most closely match future-trends, but be let down by it's sensors and "before it's time" aquisition media. The Canon H1 -> firestore is probably the best taster of things to come (great glass, high res native chips).

Kris
 
Barry_Green said:
Panasonic will never produce an HDV model. But then again, Sony will probably never produce another HDV model either.
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I would have to disagree. Sony just dropped there new HVR-V1E.
HDV with 24p.
 
Myself, I'm a little leary of long GOP compression for aquisition, so will stay with DVCPro HD. I'm not too worried about reletivly lo-res chips, after all, in the stills digital world shoving more megapixels into ever-smaller chips is usually a recipe for noise and the delivered resolution is often no better then a lower pixel-count chip, probably 1920x1080 is best left to bigger chips with decent sized photosites.
thinking........didn't I read somewhere that someone was working on a Foveon type sensor. Now that would make sense in asingle chip cam.
 
Eric Papa said:
I would have to disagree. Sony just dropped there new HVR-V1E.
HDV with 24p.
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It is starting to look like HDV is going to be around for awhile.
 
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