basspig
Veteran
Interestingly, on that Macworld video, toward the end, he's showing a Final Cut import menu with XDCam EX settings. Does he mean to suggest that when using ISO format, one uses the XDCam import setting for this camera?
Had a closer look on the JVC site and it is quite a bit smaller than it's photo suggests. Certainly the ability to record for long periods is good for those inaccessible camera locations where we have to get out the 12' ladder during intermission and reload tapes on our current 'nook & cranny' cam.
Some concerns are the 1/4" CCDs. Pixel shifting. Lack of depth of field limiting (at 6X tele, the HV20 has barely enough differential focus that faces in the audience are still recognizeable when the conductor's face is in focus) would be a bigger issue--we want the audience to be visible, but a blur so no one's face is recognizeable.
I would probably favor a CMOS imager to best match with the images we get from the XDCams, but we're already doing extensive tweaking in post with the HV20 footage to clean it up and match the color up with the other cams.
Should be interesting to see what the street price is. Of course, JVC's consumer camcorders have not had a stellar reliability record, so I'll find myself skeptical about the reliability of this new cam until it's been at work for a while with few reported failures.
Had a closer look on the JVC site and it is quite a bit smaller than it's photo suggests. Certainly the ability to record for long periods is good for those inaccessible camera locations where we have to get out the 12' ladder during intermission and reload tapes on our current 'nook & cranny' cam.
Some concerns are the 1/4" CCDs. Pixel shifting. Lack of depth of field limiting (at 6X tele, the HV20 has barely enough differential focus that faces in the audience are still recognizeable when the conductor's face is in focus) would be a bigger issue--we want the audience to be visible, but a blur so no one's face is recognizeable.
I would probably favor a CMOS imager to best match with the images we get from the XDCams, but we're already doing extensive tweaking in post with the HV20 footage to clean it up and match the color up with the other cams.
Should be interesting to see what the street price is. Of course, JVC's consumer camcorders have not had a stellar reliability record, so I'll find myself skeptical about the reliability of this new cam until it's been at work for a while with few reported failures.
