I can stop ranting now! FS4ProHD support for recording HDV in Quicktime files.
Now, I could rant a little bit about spending $40 to have a CD shipped to me, but I’m so happy to finally be done waiting, that I won’t complain.
Place your orders now!
Yeah, I want one..
As of late, I’ve been working on project that involves streaming flash video with Flash Media Server. I’ve been a bit frustrated by the process, and wanted to post some tips I’ve picked up along the way. Follow the jump if you care …
I know that Sony announced the HVR-DR60 harddisk recorder a week or so ago, but I hadn’t seen a good picture until today. Darn that’s a nice looking DDR.
I mean, it’s totally useless, but darn it sure does look nice.
Useless?
Useless for me at least. Perhaps you’ll find it to be a world full of happy. It’s M2T and AVI only, and likely won’t support anything like Canon’s 24F or JVC’s 24p. So, FCP users are out in the cold.
As I say, I wouldn’t give it a second thought if it wasn’t such a darn nice looking product. Sigh.
Oh, it’s also FAT32. It’s time for FAT32 to die. Yes, I know, it’s the only truly cross-platform disk format. Frankly, I’d much rather a device that gave me the choice to run the disk in NTFS or HFS+. Generally, when I’m out shooting, I know whether I’ll be hooking the drive up to a Mac or a PC. Since these are all using Linux under the hood, it shouldn’t be too difficult – Linux can more or less write to both NTFS and HFS these days. Getting rid of the 2gb file limit would be a dream.
Done with that then…
Quick! Rock your Software Update! Final Cut Pro 5.1.2! 24p! Hoorah!
So, every day I read through the press releases from a bunch of the companies in this field – Sony, Canon, Panasonic, etc. So, today I came across the Canon PC170 personal copier. There may be similar things out there, but this is just so cool.
So here’s my plan: I’m going to get some sunglasses, a nice suit and a PC170. Then I’ll sneak into the base of the evil supervillian and escape with the plans for the moon rocket. Muahahaha.
Step one: sunglasses.
Camcorderinfo has a review of the Canon HV10. It’s a handycam HDV camera which isn’t particularly exciting in the context of this site, but which does feature the ability to play back tapes shot in Canon’s 24F and 30F modes, which is pretty cool. Otherwise, it isn’t anything too special…
Man, I’m so cool with the titles.
Anyways, we’ve procured a few Sony HVR-A1U cameras, to replace our dying PDX-10s. We’ve got three out of four at this point, after a protracted battle with Sony. Sony apparently forgot to keep making them or something, so everywhere on the planet ran out of them. Bummer.
In any case, three of the cameras are here. And what do I think? Follow the jump!
Can someone explain to me what Sony’s prefixing is all about? They just announced the V1U, the successor to the Z1U. So far, they haven’t made any changes to the A1U. So the V is better than the Z and also better than the A. Obvious eh?
In any case. Here it is, the V1U. The gist? It’s a tarted up FX7, as we might have expected following the announcement of the FX7 at IBC. The only major difference is that instead of the pseudo-24p stuff from the Z1, it’s go true progressive chips (CMOS not CCD). Interestingly, Sony derides those crummy old “progressive-look” systems in their press release.
A few interesting things to go along with it. First, it can apparently run at hi-speed, 240fields per second, and record that to the normal 60i tape. That’s a VERY cool feature – true slow mo without laying down for the HVX-200.
They’re also pushing a 60 gig harddisk recorder to go along with it. They don’t say too much about it, but it’s an interesting option.
So here you have it, the V1U. $4800, shipping in December (January in the real world, nothing really ships in December).
I know the majority of the folks who read this site are Mac users, so you might be interested to take a look at a project I’ve been contributing some code to here and there. It’s called Scopebox, and it’s a software based Waveform/Vectorscope/Preview monitor (with lots of other stuff) to do live analysis of your video. Mike‘s been working on it for the last six months or so, and it’s finally about ready for release, so take a look.
