JamieG Analysis

There has been a lot of talk about YouTube offering higher quality content. I did hear about this a while ago, but was unable to find any.  I thought it may have been a delay in offering this new feature to the rest of the world.
Recently we created a new show reel and so I [...]

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A while back I reported that we would soon see portable flash momory based, high quality recorders to strip onto an HD-SDI based camera available.
Well here is a great first attempt at this technology..
From http://www.convergent-design.com/ we have the Flash XDR (See some cool comments here)
This device makes any HD-SDI camera capable of recording better then [...]

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Sony is about to release a VTR that actually answers the needs of a modern Post Production House.  This has been a long time coming.  And in some ways I would like to think I had a hand in shaping its future. (see here)
A number of years ago, back when the HDCAM deck was released, [...]

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Philip Hodgetts and I are arguing over H.264 again….
Philip comments on H.264 for consumer cameras:
> It’s nice to have high quality codec choices, but I don’t see AVCHD as
> it is currently implemented in the cheap HD camcorders reaching the 
> appeal of HDV.  Cheap and convenient seems to sell more than great 
> quality. [...]

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Recently I got a Xacti VPC-HD1000. This is the smallest 1080i video camera on the market, plus 8M picture camera. It stores the video data on a solid state 4gig SD card in AVCHD. AVCHD is another name for H.264. Flash Player 9 revision 3 recently came out supporting H.264/AAC.
This made me consider the fact [...]

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