Andromeda DVX100A Resolution Chart

Damn Juan! There's a good 700 lines horizontally and 800+ vertically if I'm reading this correctly! Holy ****!
 
Amazing... as soon as I get enough money I will purchase this as well. I just hope yo don't come up with a HVX Andromeda soon after I purchase the DVX one! I will cry :)

Norm
 
It already is a bargain price.

What other 4:4:4, 12-bit Uncompressed HD acquisition system with 9.5 stops of latitude and better resolution for $3000 are you looking at? :)
 
about 20% less, but still, it's clean and easily keeping it's pace with the other HD cameras, if not offering quite a bit more in the process.
 
So to capture uncompressed I would pretty much need a massive harddrive.
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In reality, not any more massive than drives you probably already own. However, the need for significant storage is going to be there with -any- uncompressed HD acquisition system. That's the whole point of not having compression there, the data size will be large but there is no decrease in quality whatsoever from what the camera really captures.

To illustrate, let me use as an example, my setup. I have an Apple Powerbook, with a tiny Hitachi 100GB external firewire drive. The drive is powered from the firewire cable itself, and is so small that I have it velcroed to the back of the powerbook screen. The setup is completely portable, battery powered, and serves as a hi-res digital monitor. Our software has integrated functions such as histogram, etc.

The 100GB drive stores about an hour of Uncompressed HD 24P footage. It also costs about $200 at most for 1 hour. Last time I checked, an 8 minute P2 card was $2,200 encoding highly compressed footage. The same concept applies, you can use each drive as a 'cartridge'. When full, you can swap it out for another one, and optionally offload them to a desktop while shooting. The difference is that for a few bucks you can easily get hundreds of Gigabytes for continous recording at uncompressed quality.

Cheers,
Juan
 
have you done tests at lower resolutions? say for instance if i wanted to capture at std. dv resolution but uncompressed, how many mb per minute would it be?

also, would the timecode on the captured footage be the same as what records on the tape? in case i wanted to edit dv, then online the HD footage later. this is assuming you can capture from the andromeda and record dv to tape at the same time.....?
 
You know what would be amazing, if you could make it save the data flow as DVCproHD on the HD. THis way we can get an option for 4:2:2 colorspace and more storage options.
 
pertierr said:
In reality, not any more massive than drives you probably already own. However, the need for significant storage is going to be there with -any- uncompressed HD acquisition system. That's the whole point of not having compression there, the data size will be large but there is no decrease in quality whatsoever from what the camera really captures.

To illustrate, let me use as an example, my setup. I have an Apple Powerbook, with a tiny Hitachi 100GB external firewire drive. The drive is powered from the firewire cable itself, and is so small that I have it velcroed to the back of the powerbook screen. The setup is completely portable, battery powered, and serves as a hi-res digital monitor. Our software has integrated functions such as histogram, etc.

The 100GB drive stores about an hour of Uncompressed HD 24P footage. It also costs about $200 at most for 1 hour. Last time I checked, an 8 minute P2 card was $2,200 encoding highly compressed footage. The same concept applies, you can use each drive as a 'cartridge'. When full, you can swap it out for another one, and optionally offload them to a desktop while shooting. The difference is that for a few bucks you can easily get hundreds of Gigabytes for continous recording at uncompressed quality.

Cheers,
Juan
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understand that you have a powerbook to capture.
hence for some firewire casing only got combo drive
or should i say one firewire port.
did you get another one with 2 firewire port
or PCI card ?
 
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