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Posted by Frank on 10/28/07 23:51
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:43:03 -0700, in 'rec.video.production',
in article <Re: Starting to think about HD>,
"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote:
>"Martin Heffels" wrote ...
>> "PTravel" wrote:
>>> My wife just made a high-ticket purchase of something she
>>> wanted. The timing is just right for me to get this camcorder. ;)
>>
>> By the way, I'm ctaching-up with the news, so it's a bit late for you
>> now,
>> but maybe for your purposes this one
>> http://www.simonwyndham.co.uk/xdcam-pmw-ex1.html would be better.
>
>Ohhhh! I think I'm in love! :-)
You do know, Richard, that's it's 8-bit, 4:2:0, long-GOP,
lossy-compressed (both spatially and temporally) MPEG-2 video, just
like 1080i HDV, but at 35 Mbps instead of 25 Mbps, right?
And although the audio is non-compressed LPCM instead of 4-to-1
lossy-compressed MPEG-1 Layer II, the whole datastream is enclosed
within an MPEG-4 wrapper. Also, depending upon your NLE, you may need
to use a Sony-supplied utility program to change the wrapper from
MPEG-4 to MXF prior to editing.
Just so you know what you're looking at. As a wise old man once said,
don't confuse love with lust.
When it comes to comparisons, especially of the low-light flavor, I
especially like the following two images.
http://www.slashcam.de/images/texte/564-Low_HVX-HVX200Low.jpg
http://www.slashcam.de/images/texte/564-Low_Sony-LowEx.jpg
The first shot came from a Panasonic AG-HVX200 (not the one that nappy
offered to loan to PTravel, though). The second shot came from a
pre-production sample of the Sony PMW-EX1. Figured that PTravel might
be able to make use of that low light capability the next time that he
shot night scenes of Amsterdam (footage that I loved, by the way,
thank you, sir, almost wrote to you about it).
For anyone who might be interested, I do provide fairly complete
PMW-EX1 coverage beginning at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/#xdcamhd
and I intend to keep the information as up-to-date as I can for as
long as I can.
The two JPEG images that I just linked to above are from a slashCAM
German language review of a pre-production sample of the PMW-EX1,
linked to from my Web page.
--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
[Please remove 'nojunkmail.' from address to reply via e-mail.]
Read Frank's thoughts on HDV at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/
(also covers AVCHD and XDCAM EX).
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