NEWS from Panasonic at NAB!!!!!

Barry_Green said:
...No news of a VariCam II, and from the people I talked to, there won't be a VariCam II anytime soon, the VariCam is still considered a current model...
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A pany rep told me that the Varicam would stay current until 2008!
 
The AJ-HPC2000 looks good, H264 with 5 P2 cards (and by the time it's out maybe we'll have bigger capacity P2 cards), and support for for any format I might need

the only thing missing from the specs is variable frame rates, I think it's also missing from the HDX900 specs
 
toke lahti said:
Panny was talking about INTRAframe encoding.
AFAIK, AVC or even FRExt does not improve intraframe compression effiency much and there really is no intraframe profile in AVC at this time.
Wavelet should be the choise of this decade...
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Wavelet for sure. Cineform's wavelet codec is -visually- nearly lossless, intra-frame and yet variable bit rate. That's slick and full 1080 resolution is usually in the 15MBs ballpark.

I'm hoping it'll be integrated in FCP in the near future.
 
Nothing from Panny about 16 GB cards.
Nothing about price reductions on the 4 and 8 GB ones.
I don't know whether to :crybaby: or :furious3: or :kali: !!!
 
Does anyone find these announcments kind of a moot point given RED? I mean, most cost around the same amount as RED is said to but aren't nearly as powerful or flexible.

This doesn't really affect me as I don't have 20k to spend on a camera (I'll be getting an HVX200 now) but it seems as all these potential great announcments from Panasonic have kind of had the wind knocked out of them.
 
Last year when Pana had the Balsa Wood HVX I did not take the wind of Sony or JVC, they are still around. And Pana will be around
for awhile. Next year they will probably announce a real camera to replace the VariCam/HVX while Red is still Beta testing.
 
Zim said:
If someone will pay $2,000 for a P2 card then is seems like a good deal!
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I hope that was sarcasm. I paid $1300 for my 8gb card and I wouldn't even pay $50 for that software.
 
unfiltered said:
I hope that was sarcasm. I paid $1300 for my 8gb card and I wouldn't even pay $50 for that software.
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they card might be a better deal than the software, but I still think the cards are over priced.

But no it wasn't sarcasm. People won't care and they will buy the software too.
 
Zim said:
they card might be a better deal than the software, but I still think the cards are over priced.

But no it wasn't sarcasm. People won't care and they will buy the software too.
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The P2 cards being overpriced isn't the issue. The issue is charging $699 for a variation of what PC users get for free.

And having three different flavors is silly. Just make one. If you really have to have more than one, make a Lite version, as well.
 
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unfiltered said:
The P2 cards being overpriced isn't the issue. The issue is charging $699 for a variation of what PC users get for free.

And having three different flavors is silly. Just make one. If you really have to have more than one, make a Lite version, as well.
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At that price you could buy a cheap PC laptop to review P2 footage???????
 
unfiltered said:
The P2 cards being overpriced isn't the issue. The issue is charging $699 for a variation of what PC users get for free.
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Doesn't the Mac OS have drivers already built in for everything that ever has been or ever will be invented? Or have I been misinformed?

Sorry . . . :evil:

Please return to the conversation. Nothing to see here . . .
 
I'm not saying it's the best thing since sliced bread, but I don't want to see HD log slammed because of lack of knowledge either. It's a lot more than a viewer.

Among other things, it has a mode that lets you scan a tape at up to 5 times speed and it will automatically log a clip for each time the record button was pressed on the camcorder. Normally, I like to hand log the footage so I can learn exactly what's on the tapes, but I had to log 26 hours of footage for a job recently and it had to be done quickly. I used that auto-logging feature (called DV-Scan), and got all 26 hours logged in approx. 12 hours, including learning how to use the software.

It will supposedly capture as well, if you wish. I exported the logs, opened them in Excel, changed a couple of things, imported them into FCP and captured the footage from there. Worked like a charm. (You can modify anything regarding your log entries in HD Log, but I had to change the column headings in Excel for it to work correctly in FCP. Don't know why.)

If this type of logging would work in your workflow, then it is worth considering. Personally, I'd rather log only the clips that I wish to work with, but sometimes (as with that particular job), it just isn't as cost effective. I haven't used it since, but I consider it worth it even if I never touch it again, because of the time it saved me on that one job.

On another note, it isn't the most polished software out there. There are things that bugged me to death while trying to use it. Throughout my short time with it, I learned where the issues were and what to do or not to do to get past them. I'm sure with more use, it would all become second nature.


FWIW,
Gary
 
DavidBeier said:
Does anyone find these announcments kind of a moot point given RED? I mean, most cost around the same amount as RED is said to but aren't nearly as powerful or flexible.

This doesn't really affect me as I don't have 20k to spend on a camera (I'll be getting an HVX200 now) but it seems as all these potential great announcments from Panasonic have kind of had the wind knocked out of them.
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Hmmm, who would buy eg. AJ-HDX900 if you can have RED cheaper and with RED's storage beeing a lot cheaper than p2's?
 
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