DVXuser.com exclusive hands on with the HVX200
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Question: does it seem like the viewfinder no longer folds out against the body to lock for 1st assistant use? The one in the P2 video looks like it is beveled to the point where it would not.
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Phooey
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Barry_Green said:
Quicktime 7, coming out very soon, will also do HD. It uses the H.264 codec which also happens to be the codec they're going to use for Blue-Ray. It seems it'll even fit a 2 hour movie on a DVD. Supposedly, you can even burn HD to DVD through DVD Studio Pro 4, but I have no idea what could play it.
jpbankesmercer
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Better work out some slow-mo ideas...
J.P.
Better work out some slow-mo ideas...
J.P.
Any G5 equiped Macintosh is supposed to play it back, even the low end G5 iMacs, but a G5 or better is required for playback.Phooey said:
Actually my biggest question on this camera is archiving your material. We will need blue-ray discs just to archive all our shot material, and need quite a few of them at the amount of material these cameras will acumulate.
I work in DVD Special Features, and many studios are wanting to shoot HD material now, and especially very soon, but most studios want to own the physical tapes that the material was shot on. The problem that I see with this camera is that without tapes, you will have to archive all your material to Blue-Ray or some other medium as a back up for the studios.
Oh well, just some thoughts I have been having.
SoerenM
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The first players are out that can play HD from a standard DVD (DVD-R etc.) when the video is encoded with WMV9 (aka VC-1) or DivX/XviD (both MPEG4 derivates) ... basis for this development is a chip from Sigma that can decode both even up to HD res!
See http://www.divx.com/hd/ for example! And KISS Technology (from scandinavia) is about to ship/release their HD player too... so where's the prob?!
See http://www.divx.com/hd/ for example! And KISS Technology (from scandinavia) is about to ship/release their HD player too... so where's the prob?!
Jan had mentioned that DVCPRO HD tapes at 60 minutes run over $100 each, and even if price was no consideration, the tapes would still need to be digitized in order to use the content stored on them (a step this new camera completely eliminates.) It seems to me that Blu-Ray or some other new technology (holographic discs were also brought up at the meeting, though I doubt anything like that will be even remotely available when the camera ships) would be a much better solution.jonahlee said:
Simon Wyndham
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"Next goal: free the film/television industry from the stranglehold of the few."
Hmm, guys, can we just remember one thing here. High Def does not qualify you to make primetime TV. *talent* does (or who you know. Depends on who you ask )
Also, I agree that the blue-grey thing is a bit 'off'. Also I wish they would change the shape of the bit in front of the viewfinder. It makes the viewfinder assembly look like a vacuum cleaner handle.
Hmm, guys, can we just remember one thing here. High Def does not qualify you to make primetime TV. *talent* does (or who you know. Depends on who you ask
)Also, I agree that the blue-grey thing is a bit 'off'. Also I wish they would change the shape of the bit in front of the viewfinder. It makes the viewfinder assembly look like a vacuum cleaner handle.
SoerenM said:The first players are out that can play HD from a standard DVD (DVD-R etc.) when the video is encoded with WMV9 (aka VC-1) or DivX/XviD (both MPEG4 derivates) ... basis for this development is a chip from Sigma that can decode both even up to HD res!
See http://www.divx.com/hd/ for example! And KISS Technology (from scandinavia) is about to ship/release their HD player too... so where's the prob?!
I think the problem is, untill the majority of people start to buy blue-ray or HD-dvd players, this camera wouldn't be the best choice for most videographers because how would you distribute your work to the common household? I was going crazy about the camera until I thought about that one aspect.
Simon Wyndham
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"Who you know does matter. What many forget is that talent usually determines who you know!"
Thats one of the most brilliant sentences I've read in a long time! Thanks!
Thats one of the most brilliant sentences I've read in a long time! Thanks!
SoerenM
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Hi Ivan! You're here too? ;-P
Of course I was only referring to the "problem" of final "end user delivery".
@DonDula ... of course currently as Barry said most people would only be able to get HD content delivered via DVD or internet to their PCs. And the PC needs to be fast enough of course. Perhaps 720p is even more interesting in this regard as it doesn't need as much processing power to be decoded/played as 1080p...
And there are many people out there using modified X-Boxes or off the shelf HTPCs or even assembled their own which are already able to play HD content.
Of course nothing that's close to being a mass market or something like that... not yet at least.
So I guess we'd have to find a way to deliver via cable & satellite?! ;-P
Of course I was only referring to the "problem" of final "end user delivery".
@DonDula ... of course currently as Barry said most people would only be able to get HD content delivered via DVD or internet to their PCs. And the PC needs to be fast enough of course. Perhaps 720p is even more interesting in this regard as it doesn't need as much processing power to be decoded/played as 1080p...
And there are many people out there using modified X-Boxes or off the shelf HTPCs or even assembled their own which are already able to play HD content.
Of course nothing that's close to being a mass market or something like that... not yet at least.
So I guess we'd have to find a way to deliver via cable & satellite?! ;-P
Simon Wyndham
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Hehe. The way I read it was that if you have talent then people naturally want to hang out with you, hence making more contacts, making more money etc.