Posted by doc on 12/23/12 11:26

thanks for the input. we've actually done some work on the sony cinealta
and now have about 50 hours of HDcam proprietary codec that we either have
to keep searching for a solution or buy sony's $20K package to edit. but
that's another story. for now, my work is going to be with the FX1 or Z1U
depending on how much i can spend at the time :o) your input really helped
answer for me what the "look" will be over a regular mini dv cam. sounds
like a world apart and that's what i need for commercials :o)

thanks

doc

<mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> doc wrote:
>> anyone out there have any experience with the Sony FX1 or Z1U?
>
> Yes, I have a Z1.
>
>> i am thinking of buying one or two of them and need to know what kind of
>> picture quality they/either produces
>
> Good. Not as good as the footage I've seen from $100k HDCAMs, but
> vastly superior to DV. Even when downconverted to DVD, it looks better
> than any semi-pro DV camera I've ever used, and not much worse than the
> footage I've edited from Digibeta cameras.
>
>> AND how well they interface with
>> firewire inputs AND their HDV quality.
>
> The one problem with Firewire so far is that if I downconvert to DV,
> Avid can't capture from a PAL camera (it seems to think it's reading
> NTSC timecode). Hopefully that will work fine once they release the
> upgrade for HDV support.
>
> Either way, I'd say it's a bigger step up from cameras like the PD170
> than the VX1000 was from Hi8.
>
> Mark
>

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