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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/9/2005, 1:12 PM
Hey! Thanks for sharing, it's a nice piece. Looking forward to seeing it grow. I wasn't aware of it til your post.
filmy wrote on 12/10/2005, 5:19 PM
Thought I would bump this thread up to the top. In case people have not followed David's blog Aspect 3.4 is out plus they have a project with HD100's going as well and are sharing info on the feature Spoon, in development in South Africa. More on Spoon here: http://indiefilmlive.blogspot.com/
Coursedesign wrote on 12/10/2005, 7:00 PM
Good info, thanks!

Reminded me to check HDforindies again, found this comment from one of his readers:

Let me just say [re HVX200], it's a neat camera, but I'm disturbed that it has more obvious compression artifacts than is being disclosed. I was able to shoot just a few clips from the camera in both 720p 24 and 1080 60i and record them off of a P2 card, and burned to CD from a powerbook. The images were of typical expo traffic (CU's of attendees faces, unflattering, dim lighting of course, but what can you do there?) near a booth. If you look at these native DVCPRO HD clips (exported from FCP via "make movie self-contained" export i.e.: no recompression) you can see that the compression is rather atrocious. Look at HVX720-2.mov and notice the blockiness and mush in the girls hair. To my eyes, it's rather extreme.

I also saw a more technical [3rd party] analysis somewhere today of how Sony makes their HDV footage look so good at the low bit rate.