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Posted by William Davis on 01/30/06 22:52
In article <1138566945.059357.216540@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
dewdman42@gmail.com wrote:
> I see many heated debates here about HD vs HDV. I am more of a
> consumer, but serious consumer perhaps. You guys don't reccomend HDV,
> but might you reccomend HDV over DV for consumer use? I saw mention
> about motion bluriness and one of the main things i will be capturing
> is ski footage. For me, small and light camara is essential...but if
> its going to be stuttery or jittery in any way..then its a moot point.
> Also, I need to be able to capture high quality still images from the
> video footage. that seems to imply that a progressive scan might be
> better for my purposes..
>
> All that being said...what camaras are out now that might fit my bill,
> under $2k and what do we know is announced for the next 6-12 months
> that might be worth waiting for?
>
> Any thoughts from you pros?
>
> -steve
My personal thought is that the whole debate is remarkably stupid.
It's like arguing that a small skip loader that you rent at your local
home improvement center isn't AS GOOD as a full fledged monster piece
of construction equipment that your city owns for working in the
landfill.
For doing WHAT exactly?
One is suitable when you're running a large commercial enterprise and
the other is a HUGE help to anyone who to occasionally needs move a pile
of rocks from one place to another.
Each gets the job done.
HDV and HD are BOTH capable of putting fine looking video on a screen.
Video, that is worth watching IF AND ONLY IF it has something of value
to say.
If you can't afford the expense of the big equipment - USE WHAT YOU CAN
AFFORD. (and be thankful you have the choice cuz once upon a time if you
couldn't talk your way into a TV station you couldn't even hope to try
editing video!)
If you're any good, sooner or later people will hand you the keys to
better equipment - precisely because you've shown you can do something
useful with it.
Anyone who tells you HDV isn't good enough is really saying that HDV
isn't good enough for the kind of work THEY do. That says NOTHING about
whether or not it's good enough for the kind of work YOU do.
And it also doesn't acknowledge the fact that if you use HDV, (or
standard def, for that matter) to do outstanding work today - then it's
almost certain that someone will recognize that skill and help you get
even better equipment to work with tomorrow.
The silly gear is the answer" attitude that always crops up here is
depressing.
We have affordable and accessible tools UNIMAGINED ever before in the
history of video production. And we STILL can't stop fretting about
whether our system is big enough.
Sheesh.
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