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- Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:55 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Super 8 Kodak K40
- Replies: 13
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That's pretty good grading! At the moment I'm grading a field-trip movie I'm doing for our Yr8 geography class. Shot on a Sony A1E, with yellow highights, blue shadows and horrible contrast (Next time I'll use my HVX). Fortunatly in Media Composer I can at least controll High, Mid and Shadow separat...
- Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:36 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Panasonic HVX200
- Replies: 32
- Views: 30083
- Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:13 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Panasonic HVX200
- Replies: 32
- Views: 30083
The red One is a pro digital cinema camera using interchangable, mostly PL mount cine lenses. Body only is $17500, and you know what's hapening to the exchange rate :( it's totaly out of our league. Scarlet should be another matter entierly, but isn't available yet. Editing could be a problem, but a...
- Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:10 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Panasonic HVX200
- Replies: 32
- Views: 30083
On the 13th, Red are going to post the new specs for the Scarlet camera, I think this cam will be worth waiting for, if you can wait, and if you can justify the likely price, given the free-falling pound and the dire economic outlook :( I think consolidating your footage onto removable disks will be...
- Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:11 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Panasonic HVX200
- Replies: 32
- Views: 30083
The editing of .r3d is pretty steep, I expect to have to get a new comp. I think Quad core is going to be minimum with as many gigs of RAM as you can afford. At the moment I have an eSATA case plugged into my laptop with removable hard drives. But yes, archiving without tapes is something that's giv...
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:51 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Panasonic HVX200
- Replies: 32
- Views: 30083
I wonder, if people aren't needing a camera urgently, whether it might not be worth waiting to see what Red bring out with the Scarlet re-design? It looks as though the price could be in the £2000-£2500 bracket once it gets over here, and can record to CF cards. I would have suggested looking at the...
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:25 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Making 16:9 Movies that look good
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13023
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:33 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Anybody editing in HDV?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27100
Ned, hi... My main beef is that if you get drop-outs on a I frame you've messed up a whole GOP sequence, but beyond that its a conviction that such formats are best left for delivery where a careful 2-pass VBR encode can be performed, rather than the cam trying to guess what's coming next. DVCProHD ...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:04 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Making 16:9 Movies that look good
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13023
Hi. After some thought I'm inclined to agree with you re: HD cams. Since they have come down in price to the point of undercutting SD cams with 16:9 chips, unless one is thinking in terms of high-end (Digibeta say) then it probably is better to get one of the cams you mentioned, even though I'm more...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:27 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Anybody editing in HDV?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27100
I don't know about HDV, don't use it myself, all my HD is in DVCProHD which I find I can edit easily on a dual core laptop running Avid MC3, with only 1TB of eSATA storage. I have an inherent distrust of all long GOP formats. I admit I have done a bit of HDV for work, but transcoded to DNxHD 120TR f...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:21 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Making 16:9 Movies that look good
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13023
RE: 16:9 PAL SD is always 720x 576, the widescreen format is simply obtained by stretching the pixels. A DVD will have a flag to tell the player what shape the pixels are. To film in 16:9 SD, you need a cam with 16:9 CCDs (As you said), however you don't have to buy a HD cam to get this, since some ...
- Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:42 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Panasonic HVX200
- Replies: 32
- Views: 30083