straighten me out on how to distribute hvx product

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dhffhd

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Ok, cockeyed optimist that I am, despite being blithely ignorant ot the technology, I've got production company set up to try and shoot features on the HVX and get them distributed on cable (might shoot for film festivals, but trying to be realistic). So I shoot the product, edit it, then output to show to distributors on what format? If no dvd available, will Digibeta work? I know I could just find some post house and hand them my hardrive and let them take it from there, but I tend to be kinda hands-on and want to do everything myself. How's this gonna work?

thanks in advance.

dave
 
November was shot three years ago. It comes out on DVD on Dec. 20, 2005.
Think about it. Three years ago 24P DVD production wasn't even on the desktop yet. (more or less)

Now you can get a 16X Dual Layer DVD-9 burner for $59.
 
D-5 is, yes, a higher-end format above DVCPRO-HD. It still gets compressed, but not subsampled like DVCPRO-HD or HDCAM (i.e., HDCAM takes 1920x1080 and records it at 1440x1080, which is subsampling; D-5 records the full pixel grid).

For cable distribution, you're probably looking at distributing screeners on DVD, and final product on DigiBeta or perhaps DVCPRO50. Depends on what the particular network wants.
 
cable SD will ask for digibeta, HD cable will be D5, at least thats how it is here in canuckland. Some may take HDcam or DVCpro HD tape, but not usually. HD-DVD/Blue ray players are finally out though, and HDVD drives for the PC have been released, so depending how the whole blue-ray vs HD-DVD thing goes by the time the camera comes out you will have a way to internally distribute your HD content without dropping it to Hi Def tape.
 
Jarred I just searched HD DVD and couldn't find any actually for sale. Could you give a link to the HD DVD drives available?

Thanks!
Gopher
 
It appears that Blu-ray may end up winning the battle.
Warner Brothers recently announced their support for Blu-ray.
With Paramount and universal on board, things are looking good!

I'm hearing first quarter 2006 for Blu-ray! This is great news since
we will have a decent medium to present our 1080P and store our
P2 files. Dual layer 50GB disks will be available.

I was hoping Blu-ray will overtake HD-DVD. Single layer HD-DVD
are only 15GB as opposed to Blu-ray single layer at 25GB.

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its tuff to say, yes warner said they would release blue-ray, but also HD-DVD.. And, you guessed it, Paramount is also releasing both formats. Universal isnt on board, only supporting HD-DVD at this time, with release of 100 hd-dvd titles. Disney is only on Blue-ray.

Its gearing up to be Beta vs. VHS all over again, but the table reversed, this time Sony has the larger format. But, Microsoft is behind Hd-DVD, Apple burns HD-DVD's already.


I think its gonna be Blue-Ray in the end though.. bigger usually wins in this game, but i think both will be around for a few years, and it will be alot like the DVD+R vs DVD-r game, players and drives will soon become dual format, and leave it to the consumer to decide on the media they choose. HD-DVD's will probally be out of the gate alot quicker though, because they are cheaper, and DVD factories can retool to stamp HD-DVD's very easily, where new machines are required for Blue-Ray production.

It will be interesting though to see how fast these burners actually burn.. can you imagine waiting 5 hours to burn a blueray disk? yikes.
 
This would be a fun battle to watch if I didn't want to buy one of these drives any time soon. PC industry vs. movie industry. It actually goes head to head in the gaming industry: Xbox 360 vs PS3.

I would love to see blu-ray win, but I think its' going to be a tough battle. After all, why would anyone pay more for a movie on blu-ray when they can get the same thing on HD-DVD for cheaper? I think that's why some of the studios are hedging their bets.
 
Yeah it will be fun to watch. Sony has a pretty bad track record, with beta and micro dv and the rest, but hey, at least they try something new every few years.

Remember those DIVX one time play movies at circuit city?

Im still waiting for Iomega to come up with some funky HD solution, you know they will.
 
Jarred Land said:
Remember those DIVX one time play movies at circuit city?
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Remember it... I hated that format with a passion! Not to mention all
those programmed Circuit City employees trying to jam this **** at us.
:)

You're right Jarred, my bad, it was Universal Music Group that supports Blu-ray.
I agree, Sony will probably pull out the winner on this one. There is a lot of support and positive attitude towards Blu-ray.
Steve
 
There's a lot of PR for blu ray, I don't know about support. The studios are always going to hedge there bets, they won't be on either side until they see what sells. Think about this for a second, your an exec at a major studio and two new formats are emerging, would you put your high six figure job on the line and choose to support only one? I'd probably look to out source small production amounts in both formats until the sales figures dictated which is best. With that said I think it will be HD DVD, because the production cost are cheaper, microsoft is supporting it on PC's and the term DVD doesn't need a lot of PR for the public to understand. But Sony as you say could pull this on out of the hat.
 
I think it benefits the studios to support both formats. If one of them wins out, then everybody who bought movies in the losing format would have to buy another copy.
 
Studios will probably hedge their bets on the format that allows them to maximize special features. DVD's are a huge part of a movies profit and HD-DVD would limit the space for special features and profits.

Also, studios are going to want to want a format that will last for a good ten to fifteen years. In that respect, HD-DVD seems like a small incremental jump in quality versus Blu-Ray.
 
Jarred Land said:
Remember those DIVX one time play movies at circuit city?
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how about the DVDs that would only work for a day after you opened the hermetically sealed package because the surface would oxidize or some crap rendering it unusable after 24 hours.

Jarred Land said:
Im still waiting for Iomega to come up with some funky HD solution, you know they will.
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bwahhahah
 
contentlab said:
how about the DVDs that would only work for a day after you opened the hermetically sealed package because the surface would oxidize or some crap rendering it unusable after 24 hours.



bwahhahah
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LOL. thank God for DVD shrink and Mac the ripper LOL.
 
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