AG-HSC1U AVCHD Cam Announced

Ah..Ah..that's exactly what I thought first seeing the announcment in Studio daily.....On a 4GB SD card...ok it's AVC but....
Let's see next news.....
 

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nsoltz said:
Does anyone have any idea of the price of the "SDHD" 4 gb cards?
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8GB cards are about $140. They are stamp-sized, very durable -- you're more likely to lose them than break them.
 
The problem at present is the fact that the footage cannot be edited on any NLE system. Vegas are working on a release 1st quarter 2007. But Adobe premiere users may have to wait another 9 months!!!

Looks a useful camera but no point in buying if you cannot use the footage
 
nsoltz said:
Defnitely OT here, but interesting little camera for $2099.
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Not just the camera, but it includes its own version of a P2 Store, apparently they call it the "SD Store." So you have about 7 hours of best-quality footage when you buy the thing, and 14 hours of medium-quality footage.

Is there any difference between this cam and the consumer AVC-HD model? Or are they just packaging it with the SD Store for the Broadcast release?
 
Glen Johnson said:
The problem at present is the fact that the footage cannot be edited on any NLE system.
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Canopus has a free tool that converts AVCHD to the Canopus HQ or Lossless editing codecs. That will get you realtime editing performance with what would otherwise be a highly compressed, long GOP acquisition / delivery format.

The converter is on the Japanese Canopus site, and requires the full (not the playback-only) version of the HQ/Lossless codec, which in turn requires either a Canopus editing board or the USB dongle of an Edius 4 NLE.
 
Barry_Green said:
Is there any difference between this cam and the consumer AVC-HD model? Or are they just packaging it with the SD Store for the Broadcast release?
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Not much is known about the full specs of the camera, but one obvious difference is that this model has a F1.6 lens instead of the F1.8 lens found on the consumer camera. Oh, and it's gray... (c8
 
But it has 1/4 chip, so that makes it useless in indoor settings.
When is someone going to make a portable camera with big chips?
That's what I want/need
 
Here's an excerpt for Panasonic's web site:



https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/02products/products/ag-hsc1u/ag-hsc1u.html

High-Precision Progressive Scan
In the AG-HSC1U's camera section, the progressive CCD creates native progressive images with outstanding vertical resolution. Progressive interlace conversion is then used to provide image quality higher that possible with images produced using conventional electronic interpolation of interlaced signals. There's also progressive 3D noise reduction.Dramatically reduced noise and after images.
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Does this mean it's 1080 24p/25p on a 60i/50i stream as we know on our HVX's?
 
so is this camera progressive or not?

if it's not progressive, why does it have progressive sensors?

cinegamma?
 
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You've asked the key question -- why does it even have interlaced at all? Nobody even manufactures interlaced displays anymore! (practically...)

The thing is, 1080i is huge in Japan, it's apparently all that the audience wants to watch, it's what the producers shoot their "movies of the week" in. Makes no sense to us rabid 24p fans, but it's the way it is. So this cam was designed by Japanese engineers who decided that 1080i was the look they wanted to go with, apparently.

There is no progressive recording at all in it. This has to be the biggest head-scratcher in Panasonic's recent history, but there it is. One can only hope that this will be an anomaly, and future models will be 24P-capable.
 
I don't know about you guys, but it feels like that the 24p/25p modes are not there more because of marketing and politics and less for technical reasons...

I could be dead wrong and I'm not saying it as a fact, but companies tend to do these stuff to separate their products...
 
This camera is 1080I only and records Dolby 5.1 audio. it has three setting for recording 6Mb, 9Mb, 13Mb. Panasonic will provide software, SD card, and SD storer. Consumer version only sell Camera and software. The Panasonic software will do transfer from AVCHD to BD disc for palyback in any BD player.
Pinnacle is also coming out with the software for AVCHD. It has HDMI out put if you use Convergent BOX which will convert HDMI into HDSDI then you can import in to NLE as HDSDI 1080I. Camera also has analog Component out for HD which can go directly in to NLE including FCP but it will be live capture not the file base.
Remember 4GB cards are different animal then 2GB the format is different and not compatible at all. The AVCHD need HC grade high speed SD cards the cheap one does not work but Panasonic provide one SD card with 40GB SD card storer HDD. The SD Storer takes long time to transfer the card and it has to be on the table not in your pocket in order to work because there no saftey like P2 storer in this.
I have seen the picture in one of the show on 50" plasma it was amazing to see the HD coming out of small camera. But CCD is a limitation.
Again Panasonic is NO MOVING PART in consumer to. The 13MB recording is preety good compression it did not fall apart with lots of movement such as HDV. It is LONG GOP AVCHD.
 
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