Posted by doc on 09/20/05 03:54

cool point. this will be studio for all practical purposes and so the car
seat isn't really to be an issue with us i don't think at this point.

doc

"Specs" <No.Spam@Thanks.com> wrote in message
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>> As for SUX, that's not what I'm saying either. Audibly compromised after
>> a
>> full run through post and output to DVD? Let me hear the exact same audio
>> recorded at 48 kHz, 16-bit and maintained at that until the compression
>> to
>> MPEG for DVD. Who knows, maybe that final dump to DVD (with its mpeg
>> audio
>> will compromise the un-messed with audio enough so the two sound pretty
>> similar.
>>
>
> The vast majority of professionals that will use these cameras like the PD
> 150 before it. That is for ad-hoc interviews, interviews in cars and
> anywhere that's impractical to take a full size camera. The majority of
> the
> sound recorded is likely to be that of the human voice which is more than
> capably captured in MP2.
>
> There are two issues, firstly the ability to get HD video in those
> difficult
> situations out weights the compromise in audio quality. Secondly who the
> hell is going to do their whole programme's audio post-production in MP2?
> By the time an audio bed has been put under the MP2 derived audio it
> unlikely you'll notice any recompression artefacts down-stream. Its
> analogous to DV footage being placed into a Digibeta mastered programme.
>
> Taking your point to the extreme and MP2 after post productions was heard
> to
> sound like a long distance call to timbuktu I would prefer, as a producer,
> to get the interview above all else and if that means using MP2 audio so
> be
> it. Personally I'd rather not have to tell the broadcaster that I
> couldn't
> get my varicam in the passenger seat of the car so there's no interviews
> on
> the move or that when I went into Toxteth (a beautiful area of Liverpool)
> to
> get some interviews with drug dealers that they nicked my expensive camera
> so haven't been able to produce the programme!!!!!
>
>

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