The Panasonic G1HD | GH-1 Video Mode : A Real Video Mode

PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!!
How easily you twist in the wind....
"this camera is awesome..."
"OMG look what it can do..."
"car mount and such...."
"what? footage? clips?"
"um... nah, can't do that"

This guy doesn't have a GH1, as a matter of fact this isn't even Kholi!
I've done a bit of investigating: Kholi was last spotted in New Zealand working on the Legend of Zelda "fake" trailer. ONLY!!! It was the "REAL" thing! Kholi has been in New Zealand for the past 12 months working with Peter Jackson and Ridley Scott (yes THAT PETER JACKSON, but oddly enough, NOT that Ridley Scott)
So who is this conniving coercive contravening counterfeit cinematographer?
None other than Richard Longwood, the infamous social networking terrorist hacker! After being banned from Myspace and Facebook, Mr. Longwood created an account on Twitter and hacked blogs, news websites and web portals to plant fake stories of how great Twitter was, how life changing and immensely popular it was with the famous, the beautiful and the rich. When Twitter actually became popular despite its clear uberlamenificence (that's what the cool kids say, Google it) an internal company review revealed the scam and Mr. Longwood's ISP was written on a secret post-it note. This post-it note sits in the CTO's office at Twitter where a special task force sits and vigilantly denies accounts being set up by Mr. Longwood. Apparently Mr. Longwood knows how to hack into DVXUser databases but isn't quite sure how to mask his ISP address, weird I know. Also Twitter is really lame and I can totally see how they wouldn't understand about auto rejecting ISPs.
Moral:
DVXUser + a Japanese GH1 = the new Twitter
 
philip bloom said:
manual says it is 17mbps 60i (sensor output is 24p). Weird. FCP is saying it's 25p
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The spec says 25p over 50i in PAL or 24p over 60i in NTSC. Does your camera have both? The 25p should have 25% less compression (2:2 pulldown instead of 2:3) resulting in a slightly better image.
 
henrooo said:
In imovie '09 there is native support

I simple placed Barry's sample footage onto an SD card and connected it to my mac, imovie gave the option to import the footage @1080 or 960(something like that).

I'm not sure how if its that same in imovie '08 though.
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iMovie & Final Cut Express transcode AVCHD to the Apple Intermediate Codec on ingest.

Final Cut Pro 6 (FC Studio 2) can transcode AVCHD into ProRes or ProRes HQ (or the AI codec). ProRes & ProRes HQ are more capable codecs compared to the AI codec.

I'm not certain, but I suspect that ingesting AVCHD first into iMovie or FCE, and then importing these files into FCP results in a FCP movie using the AI codec. I'll defer to experienced editors on this latter detail.

- Peter
www.peterdv.com
 
how do we feel about importing via imovie using apple intermediate codec versus prores. FCP log and transfer keeps failing to bring in some clips....
 
squig, kholi, the question I was asking about the lens on a jib isn't answered by autofocus. Do I care if it's in focus if it's not framed right?

Likewise, if you're the sort of director I am that doesn't like to shoot my own stuff, this output issue becomes pretty major. It might be useful as a B or C camera, but I do like to see what is being shot.

I'm inclined to agree with Dan here: this camera will be terrific in certain applications, but not all that many. But then again I never really expected it to be the second coming. Should be cool to play with for experiments, small shoots, maybe documentary stuff.
 
DavidNJ said:
The spec says 25p over 50i in PAL or 24p over 60i in NTSC. Does your camera have both? The 25p should have 25% less compression (2:2 pulldown instead of 2:3) resulting in a slightly better image.
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I'm confused, didn't liza say something to the contrary?
 
Don't shoot car material. The avchd really falls apart in this scenario. At least wide footage, left to right. I'm gonna try it with the tokina 11 on the 11 end to see how it fairs.

The compression doesn't actually break too much easier though. It takes something high motion to crack it. Like Anders Ex1 and leaves test.

I still can't figure out this aliasom thing by it pops up at the weirdest times.
 
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