Posted by doc on 09/20/05 04:18

also Mike, any comments on the Sony Z1U holding white balance? and, any way
to get more detail on that white balance failure issue? geez, i don't wanna
make a big mistake with the panasonic cams instead of the sony z1u. i can't
get the fx1 because of the 1/8" plug and the expectation of sound issues,
while i have read that the z1u is somewhat different.

doc

"Mike Kujbida" <kujfamNoSpam@xplornet.com> wrote in message
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> doc wrote:
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>>
>> the two cam's we've been considering are the panasonic dvx100a and the
>> panasonic dvc60 both of which say 410,000 pixels 4:3 and 500 lines of
>> resolution. thus, shouldn't the picture be better than the betacams?
>> or am i missing something? like a major ingredant in the comparison?
>
>
>
> Doc, are you talking BetaCam or BetaCamSP? This might account of the
> lower
> lines of res that you're quoting.
>
> I have a friend at a local post house who shoots with both the DVX100a and
> a
> BetaCamSP rig. His opinion, along with everyone else at his shop (as
> well
> as a majority of their clients), is that BetaCamSP just looks better.
> All footage is dumped into either their Avid or FCP suites in component
> mode
> so there is no quality loss in the editing process.
> He's also told me that the BetaCamSP unit holds colour balance much better
> than the DVX100a. He can do a white balance on both cameras and, after
> panning the shot slightly, the backgrounds on the Panasonic will shift
> enough to be noticeable.
>
> Also, the only complaints I've heard about the sound quality on the Sony
> HDV
> cameras are over on the pro audio groups. Then again, these guys have mic
> kits that cost far more than a Sony HDV camcorder :-)
>
> As far as the quality of the downsampled image (1080i HDV to 480i SD), I
> have yet to read any complaints on the various Sony Vegas forums. To the
> contrary, everyone has commented about how good it looks in comparison to
> a
> standard miniDV camcorder.
> http://www.vasst.com/?v=HDV/hdvportalnew.htm is a decent site for more HDV
> info. You may need to register to get access to some of the info but it's
> free.
>
> Finally, there's a great multicam tool for Vegas called Excalibur ($100)
> from http://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/multicam.php
> There's an excellent article on how it was used to offline a 10 camera
> shoot
> at http://tinyurl.com/6a74a
>
>
> Mike
>

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