Replacing Panny Lens

[Barry_Green]

What do you record the HD-SDI output to or on?

Well, that's the question. The answer is: a lotta money. You could get a $40,000 HDCAM deck, or a $25,000 DVCPRO-HD deck. Or you could build a computer with a LaCie RAID; that'd be the cheapest option but still going to set you back several thousand dollars.

Would it have the same information output by the HVX-200 in HD mode?

If you sent it to a DVCPRO-HD deck, then uncompressed HD-SDI recorded by the deck would probably be quite comparable to the HVX's recordings; but that's just format only, that doesn't include whatever differences would be encountered due to lens, chips, sampling, DSP, gamma curves, etc. I would expect that the Canon glass will be better than the HVX glass, but I don't know if the rest of the imaging chain will hold up. I'm sure John Hudson will be happy to explain why!

If that SDI signal is uncompressed...wouldn't that require a HUGE amount of storage capacity?

Sure it will. A gigabyte goes by in five seconds.

How would you get that SDI footage into Final Cut Pro HD?

Don't use FCP so I don't specifically know. I'm sure a Kona card would be involved though.