New HD Camcorder

flashlight wrote on 2/4/2003, 9:02 AM
http://www.abcdv.com/article/articleview/60/1/53/

I was reading that JVC is coming out with a Consumer HD camcorder. I looked at another site that had the MSRP at about $4,500.

It records on MiniDV tape. WIll Vegas 4 be able to import, edit, and print-to-tape to this camera?

I know it may be to early to ask this question but...

Al

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Tyler.Durden wrote on 2/4/2003, 9:21 AM
Hi Al,

The camera is reported to ship with a utility that converts the quasi-HD into real-HD or mpeg-2... no word yet if it converts to better editing formats like avi.


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flashlight wrote on 2/4/2003, 9:24 AM
Marty,

So you would be editing mpeg2 and not avi? Doesn't that kind of suck? What do you mean by "Quasi-HD?"

I suppose the camera can also shoot regular dv.

Al
pb wrote on 2/4/2003, 9:34 AM
I wouldn't worry too too much about HDTV for now. We had a meeting with the Sony Broadcast sales manager on Friday about HD vis-a-vis the two DSR 500WS camcorders we bought just over a year ago becoming obsolete real soon. He said the broadcasters will slowly work into it but as the majority of Americans and Canadians have 4:3 TVs, there isn't a great deal of urgency to upgrade to HDTV format. Our cameras shoot native 16:9 wide screen and I am sure most of you can switch your camcorders to shoot 16:9, even if, as in the case of the Canon family, it is quasi 16:9. Don't fret about it.

Peter
wcoxe1 wrote on 2/4/2003, 9:40 AM
The new JVC CAN shoot a variety of formats, including ordinary DV, and its particular version of enhanced, "quasi"- HD. It can't go all the way to digital 1080i true High Def.
SonyDennis wrote on 2/5/2003, 11:16 AM
The camera is not out yet, so no one can say for sure, but you should be able to bring this footage into Vegas just fine.

It's 6-frame GOP MPEG-2, at 1280x720x30fps (although it can output analog 1080i, it only shoots 720p). It also has a "DV" mode that should act like any other DV camera.

You will not be able to render 1280x720 MPEG-2 from Vegas, though.

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