Is the HXV200 4:4:4 ?

[Barry_Green]

I don't know if they'll do that or not. The 1080 codec is designed to be 60i, I don't know if they'd want to make a nonstandard codec like that. With the 720p codec they had already established the frame rate converter etc., so the precedent was there. And with 720p, using "n" saves you 60% of your bandwidth, but with 1080 it would only save 20%. It'd be nice to have, but I doubt it's high on anyone's priority list.

The software suppliers need a good push to get 1080/24p support already. Edius has it, and Raylight offers it, but Apple and Avid don't yet. If those two would update their software, 99% of the 1080p issue becomes moot.

 

[BigMike]

The software suppliers need a good push to get 1080/24p support already. Edius has it, and Raylight offers it, but Apple and Avid don't yet. If those two would update their software, 99% of the 1080p issue becomes moot.

Well, for the time being I bought AVID so I can hang on to my PC until the smoke clears and Intel chips are proven in the G5s or the 64bit Windows platform works without bugs and I can get a new monster workstation.

Till then, I've got all I need except my RAID and P2 or other aquisition media... so this is STILL all moot for me. Planning on doing 720 24P for a while till I know the camera.

 

[toke lahti]

Well, actually, no, it wouldn't be all that bad. Because the HVX's CCDs aren't megapixel, the transfer rate wouldn't be enormously bad, it'd be about 1.55 megabytes per frame, or 93 megabytes per second. That's about half the data rate of regular uncompressed HD, but we're talking about 1920x1080x60p (when Juan gets through running SculptorHD on the signals of course). It'd be 729 megabits per second, which would fit within a FireWire 800 or Gigabit Ethernet data stream.

It might be reasonable to take more color depth out of the camera than 8 bits per channel, so the datarates would be a little bit higher. With 10 bits it would be 1.94 megabits per frame.