HD switchers?

Sonisfear wrote on 9/10/2005, 3:58 AM

Does anyone know of a cost effective HD switcher?

I am looking to save post editing/render time by going back (partially)to the old school way of production.

I would love to be able to go native component (maybe firewire might make more sense) out of 2-4 cams HD100, HVX maybe even HZU cams hopefully utililzes various rezos and performs basic (fade and wipe type switching and hopefully color correction.

Then it would and output to a HD deck like the BR-HD50U or DR Hd100 hard disk system.

A device like this would make indie HD telvision production a snap.

If there any manufactures listening/reading this would be a great product for 2006

Comments

farss wrote on 9/10/2005, 6:42 AM

There's plenty out there but they COST very big time. At the moment what you'd most likely need to do is convert the HD component or HDV 1394 stream to HD SDI and feed that into a HD switcher, then take the HD SDI into a HDCAM deck or else go through another HD SDI to 1394 HDV converter.
Having spent all those dollars, you could afford 2 or 3 real HD cameras from petty cash.
Reason why this is all so damn expensive is the switcher first has to get all its source in sync, that alone with HD is no cheap trick.
Trying to do this with the m2t stream coming out of the cameras would be pretty tricky, no doubt one could build such as beast but...
Even trying to switch SD DV can be messy, we've hung onto our old MX50s simply because the 'digital' switchers/mixers have so much lag they'd drive you nuts.
Bob.

Sonisfear wrote on 9/21/2005, 6:42 AM

http://www.edirol.com/press/hirez_photos/images/v440hd_top.jpg

Hey... here is a cost effective HD switcher.