For web/ computer use....

[Green Hornet]

I was just thinking of how good the 1080 24p stuff must look, but
being as it will be so difficult for most to view properly, it is probably better to start out with 720p for anything you want others to see via sending to them online, or viewing via computer.

Other than that, why shoot 1080p, unless you are making a movie.

I just watched some footage from the 48hour film festival, that was shot on the HVX200, and it looked real good to me, but my computer had one small hickup during playback. I did not see the graininess others mentioned, even in the dark scenes, and this file was compressed in quicktime, and viewed with quicktime player....maybe it's only on the mac quicktime viewer.

In any case, my laptop is a hyperthreaded P4 3.06 gig processor with a gig of ram, and 100 gig segate hard drive....and I still got one small hickup playing back recompressed 720p footage.

My point being, you will need a lotta horse power to play 1080p, and it will be larger than most viewers screens, so unless your shooting a movie, why use it now?

 

[scarfie]

Unless you are distributing your content for users to burn and watch with their set-tops (not even possible in HD til BlueRay or HD-DVD) or to store on their HDD for viewing on their HD sets over networked media players, 1080p and 720p are both overkill for distribution on computer. Let me rephrase that...aquiring in 1080p or 720p is second to none (save 4k) but for distibuting via internet, you're going to want to down-res. You'll have to take a hit in resolution, frame rate, or compression to get a managable file size.

Most of my work is done for distribution on the net. I also do some local/regional spot production. In both cases, even 720p for distribution doesn't fly. No local or regional stations are doing any kind of HD ad insertion (a couple network stations don't even have their HD signal up yet). For internet, I try to keep everything around 200k (!). I could go higher but it cuts out a lot of end users with slower connections and all dialup peeps. I can get a very good image at 200k granted we try to eliminate as much fast motion content as possible so the codec can keep up. Bump it up to 500k + and you can get some online video that looks fantastic without the end-user waiting all day to buffer streams or getting said hiccups in playback.

In my case 720p will be the perfect because I can down-rez it to SD or Internet and since the orignal video will have the resolution, it will look damn good in 480i and lesser rez for the net. Once the locals start HD ad inserts, I won't have to change my workflow except for adding a BlueRay/HD-DVD burner.

I'd say 1080p is strictly for the film transfer crowd. 1080i/720p for the HD broadcast crowd. Since the HVX seems to really shine at 720p (more frame rates, seems like a native 720p that can spoof 1080i) if you are doing stuff for intenet or SD distribution, I can't see any reason to do anything in 1080 since you can get more out of the camera at 720.

That's just my take on it...can not wait to get my hands on an HVX.