Ralph Oshiro
Veteran
Went to the HDfest conference at Dolby Labs in Burbank, California last night and got to see a pretty trick HD100 set-up.
Sorry, no pictures other than the one I placed from Cineform's site below, since I didn't know anyone was bringing gear to the panel discussion. Anyway, these two filmmakers brought a fully tricked-out JVC HD100 with a RedRock micro35 adapter and a Nikkor 35mm f/2.0 still lens attached. They are planning to use Cineform's CODEC and Wafian's HR-1 component-HD HDD array recorder, which has 1 terabyte of internal storage, to shoot a feature length project. They take three BNCs from the HD100's analog component-HD out, into this rack-mount black box (the Wafian) with the disk array in it. They forgot the breakout cable, so we couldn't see what the footage from the HD100 looked like. But the Cineform guy said the wavelet-based compression used in the HR-1 is about 8:1, and nearly lossless.
Wafian HR-1 Component HD Hard Disk Recorder
The Wafian HR-1 is a hardware product produced by a spin-off company of Cineform. The HR-1 will be shipping in January for a selling price of about $15K including 1 terabyte of mirrored storage. The HR-1 is about the size of a large tower PC case, but sits horizontally to accomodate viewing its built-in, front-panel LCD monitor (the monitor was absent in this pre-production model). A portable version is also planned (probably the size of a BVW50, NOT a Firestore) in the next four to five months, according to the Cineform representative. Cineform also said they will work out some kind of rental set-up for the system sometime early next year.
Recording 720P analog component to the HR-1 from the JVC HD100 eats up about 1.5GB of storage space per minute. Once stored in the HR-1, all of your footage can be fed out via gigabit Ethernet to another networked storage array, or if you wanted, you could even edit right off the HR-1 and use it as the server. To edit these bitstreams, you would use Cineform's NLE, Prospect HD, which uses Adobe Premiere Pro as an interface and runs Cineform's CODEC internally.
An interesting thing about this whole process is that Cineform has created a relationship with an L.A. post house that will transfer the native Cineform bitstreams straight to film. This greatly reduces film-out costs, according to Cineform, from about $60-80K for a traditional film-out, to only about $15-18K using the Cineform-direct-to-film model.
Sorry, no pictures other than the one I placed from Cineform's site below, since I didn't know anyone was bringing gear to the panel discussion. Anyway, these two filmmakers brought a fully tricked-out JVC HD100 with a RedRock micro35 adapter and a Nikkor 35mm f/2.0 still lens attached. They are planning to use Cineform's CODEC and Wafian's HR-1 component-HD HDD array recorder, which has 1 terabyte of internal storage, to shoot a feature length project. They take three BNCs from the HD100's analog component-HD out, into this rack-mount black box (the Wafian) with the disk array in it. They forgot the breakout cable, so we couldn't see what the footage from the HD100 looked like. But the Cineform guy said the wavelet-based compression used in the HR-1 is about 8:1, and nearly lossless.
Wafian HR-1 Component HD Hard Disk Recorder
The Wafian HR-1 is a hardware product produced by a spin-off company of Cineform. The HR-1 will be shipping in January for a selling price of about $15K including 1 terabyte of mirrored storage. The HR-1 is about the size of a large tower PC case, but sits horizontally to accomodate viewing its built-in, front-panel LCD monitor (the monitor was absent in this pre-production model). A portable version is also planned (probably the size of a BVW50, NOT a Firestore) in the next four to five months, according to the Cineform representative. Cineform also said they will work out some kind of rental set-up for the system sometime early next year.
Recording 720P analog component to the HR-1 from the JVC HD100 eats up about 1.5GB of storage space per minute. Once stored in the HR-1, all of your footage can be fed out via gigabit Ethernet to another networked storage array, or if you wanted, you could even edit right off the HR-1 and use it as the server. To edit these bitstreams, you would use Cineform's NLE, Prospect HD, which uses Adobe Premiere Pro as an interface and runs Cineform's CODEC internally.
An interesting thing about this whole process is that Cineform has created a relationship with an L.A. post house that will transfer the native Cineform bitstreams straight to film. This greatly reduces film-out costs, according to Cineform, from about $60-80K for a traditional film-out, to only about $15-18K using the Cineform-direct-to-film model.