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Posted by doc on 09/14/05 16:26
thanks for the input. regarding the HDcam/HDV/HD issue, assuming we make
this move to go digital, we would have the following:
3 - Sony FX1 (or Z1U if we can find them reasonable enough)
Edius Pro 3
Liquid Edition 6 Pro
Studio 9 (10 when it comes out)
and maybe Avid Express HD
we will also have 10 channel analog mixer with on board effects and 8
channel analog/digital external audio interface with Cubase SL3 (offering
unlimited channels and effects options - limited only by the power of the
computer system)
and initally a new Pentium D (3.0 Ghz 2 Mb L2 cache) & 2 Gb 4200 ddr2 533 Hz
memory & sata drives
expanding to dual Pentium D's as above eventually in the next machine
our project is to convert a 12 year old 3 Sony camera and Sony betamax pro
recorder system to digital as defined above. we have a very limited
conversion budget as our income is totally donated.
your thoughts on the config and/or our possible short sightedness when it
comes to comparing the FX1 and Z1U with regard to the software choices?
as always, many thanks in advance.
Doc
"Moving Vision" <mv@movingvision.co.uk> wrote in message
news:wCxnEAN3vBKDFwRL@movingvision.demon.co.uk...
> In article <0fJVe.12283$ck6.3519@trndny05>, doc <doc@drdimento.net> writes
>>i was really studying the specs and all i can see is that other than the
>>xlr
>>inputs really there's barely more res with the z1u but not enough to
>>justify
>>$1,000 in my book ??
>>
>>doc
>
> Thousands of broadcast and professional shooters would disagree with you,
> including myself. Anthony Lacey's list herewith gives an indication, but
> each of those '40 additional features' suggests at least one other
> important aspect of overall production that's not obvious to the
> uninitiated.
>
> Thing with this news group is although its a rec.group it's frequented by
> quite a few actual vastly experienced and time served professionals, one
> or two of whom are quite well known amongst their industry peers to boot.
> The contributions to many of these strands often seem quite absurd as rank
> amateurs assert all sorts of things in blissful ignorance of the expertise
> and experience of those with whom they are in discussion. So often a case
> of the blind leading the blind.
>
> For my 10 pence worth though and in consideration of all the discussion on
> HDV so far, I'll suggest the following;
>
> Currently there's only two editing platforms worth a hoot that provide a
> viable HDV solution. The best by a significant margin are the Canopus
> Edius platforms; NX, cheap and limited, SP, good value for money does
> almost everything and upgradable with HDV to HD SDi bridges and then
> there's the HD, at over $30K might seem expensive to the low budget
> operator but it does more than any other $500,000 box of tricks on the
> market. If there's one single product that underlines how much of our post
> production industry is about to loose it's shirt it's the Canopus HD.
>
> Next most viable for HDV is Final Cut Pro 5. It's actually a pretty good
> HDV editor but at least two sandwiches short of picnic compared with
> Canopus. It's all about unique, brilliant and ingenious codecs, Canopus's
> codecs. All the other two bit and half baked offerings being discussed
> here are just that, I wouldn't have them even if they were giving them
> away.
>
> --
> John Lubran
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