MMS member Kim Komenich put together some interesting notes from his visit to MacWorld last week. Gear heads will love it. Hi Folks, Last week I popped into MacWorld and checked out the new stuff. I also went to the LAF Final Cut Pro Users Group Supermeet and watched a greenscreen [...]
MMS member Kim Komenich put together some interesting notes from his visit to MacWorld last week. Gear heads will love it. Hi Folks, Last week I popped into MacWorld and checked out the new stuff. I also went to the LAF Final Cut Pro Users Group Supermeet and watched a greenscreen demo where the guy used $300 Black Magic Intensity HDMI card to get a 4:2:2 uncompressed feed from the HV20 directly into a Mac Pro. Here are a few items that might be of interest to you: —————————- Canon HV30————————— The main HV30 features to consider are: –The camera's ability to simultaneously capture stills and videos. This technology is in its infancy in this model– you can only get a 2MP still without stopping the tape– but it HAS to be where these sensors are heading. –The 30P means 30 clean frames per second up for grabs– no interlace. –In card mode it's like a 3.1 Megapixel Powershot. This article sez you can dedicate the camera to shooting on the card and get five 3.1 megapxel 1920X1080 pics/sec: http://www.pictureline.com/products/15478/Canon_VIXIA_HV30_Camcorder/ –and it has a little popup flash which keeps up with the motor. —————————–Canon HF10————————— If it's time to go solid state, check out the Canon HF10. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/539290-REG/ There are only three cameras in the US at the moment and Michael Cutler had two at MacWorld. As I recall you can't shoot stills and video at the same time (you have to stop shooting video to get into stills mode). The flip side is that you have thirty 3.3MP progressive frames/second to grab from.The videos from this thing are stunning. This and a Beachtek could be the next wave. —————————-SONY WEIGHS IN———————– If you're in an "in for a dime, in for a dollar" mode, consider the two 1/2" cameras in the $6K range from Sony. This format may be important if you are thinking of stepping into the bigs. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/532558 http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/520761-REG ——————————THE RED————————— 4K, I learned, isn't the cost of the camera, it's the width of the image. The Red video camera shoots images 4000 pixels wide. This is big screen gear http://www.red.com/cameras You can rent it from Silverado for $2,000/day with a $70,000 deposit http://www.silverado.cc/upload/docs/rapidrent.pdf ——————–BLACK MAGIC INTENSITY PRO CARD—————– The joy of going to an LA Final Cut Pro Users' group meeting (or looking at their website http://lafcpug.org/ is tapping into what I'd call a "film-school" camaraderie. It's the same camaraderie we as stills shooters would have at a Flying Short Course or a Platypus Friday night reunion.LAFPUG is a great bunch of lunatics and they raffle off great prizes. I was blown away in particular by a greenscreen demo which used the lowly HV20 connected to a Mac through its HDMI port via cable to a Black Magic Inensity Pro card. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/495426-REG The demonstrator said the HDMI allowed the HV20 to deliver a 4:2:2 uncompressed HD image to the Mac. Due to the fact he was giving a live demo about greenscreen to 400 people he didn't go into the intricacies of how he recorded his feed. I guess all you've gotta do is drag a Mac Pro along in your bag as you shoot that doc. ———————–RIPPLE TRAINING DVD TUTORIALS——————— Steve Martin and Ripple Training have a new suite of instructional videos for Final Cut Studio. 2 The Color DVD' is really good. Maybe they'll cut us a Platypus price http://rippletraining.com/engine/dvdrom That's it from MacWorld. KK
