Posted by mmaker on 09/10/05 11:28

Antony Lacey wrote:
> I can' think of any problems with it as such. Most professional
> cameramen I have spoken to have said it's useless at fast panning, but I
> don't need (or plan to) do fast panning. Whether they've tried it or
> read this I don't know,

Personally I suspect they're talking out of their backsides: I've tried
to break the compression with fast pans, but it works OK for me. I
wouldn't be surprised if there are some artifacts if you freeze-frame
in a pan, but I haven't seen anything significant while watching it as
video.

On the other hand, I _have_ seen awful compression artifacts in
broadcast HD when they've done a fast pan on a $100k HDCAM and then
compressed it to MPEG-2 for broadcast. So if the shot would break up
when shot on a Z1, all that effort and expense they're going to in
order to shoot on a format where it won't break up is totally wasted by
the time it gets to Joe Sixpack's TV screen.

Mark

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