Eric, both Mannie and TJ have responded to your mails, it's in the phone field you keep getting hung up. They can ship books to Belgium.
CKC, please keep in mind that book was written before any real HDV camera was shipping, unless you want to consider the JVC HD1with incorrect colorspace, single chip camera as 'real' HDV.
The second edition of the book will be much more robust now that there are more than just 2 prototype cameras to play with. During the writing of that book, we had a Z1 for 4 days, and an FX 1 for 3 days, and that was pushing Sony's allotment time as it was. One came from Hawaii and the other from Canada, because US didn't have them available.
So apologies if you felt it was too basic, but it was (and still is) the first book on the format, at a time when there was virtually no information on the format available to anyone, anywhere. And, it is intended to be a primer, which means a "basics" book to help get people understanding MPEG 2 compression, 1440 anamorphic, pixel aspects, pixel counts, migration paths to HD, output options, display options. We attempted to talk about CF24/25 when the prototype we had didn't even have those features. In the 9 months since the book was written, a lot has changed in that Sony has released 2 additional cameras and announced 2 more, JVC has announced and about to release 1, Canon has soft-announced that they'll be making an announcement, and there are a LOT of peripherals and accessories that weren't available or even considerable in October of last year. Vegas 6 was months away from launch, so was the HDV version of Premiere Pro. FCP, Ulead, and Canopus didn't support the format at the time we wrote, so little testing other than the CineForm tools and Vegas 5. So, while the book is now a little dated in terms of cameras/decks/peripherals, the basics are still pretty important. You'd be amazed at how many folks still don't know what an intermediary is, or a proxy file, etc.

Really? What are Intermediates? And Proxy-What? I still did not get that...
:) :)

Seriously spoken, for the time beeing when the first edition was written, it is quite clear that the book was a piece of pioneer work. For the second edition, not only much more experience is availabe, we know much better the possible workflows with strength and weaknesses, and we see now how different NLEs perform with HDV. So, the methodology of HDV editing is much more developed today, even if I think that we still have to go a far way.

When will the second edition be available, Douglas?

We really thought we'd have the second editionn out by now, but JVC delayed the release of their camera, and I feel we need to at least have some time with it. We've already got an HVR-A1 to experience for the book, so adding segments on CMOS now, as it's pretty clear that CMOS will be playing a fairly significant role in not just the future of HDV cameras, but likely all cameras. So, what was slated for August 1 now has no expected delivery date. But...we/I want it out as soon as possible.

We really thought we'd have the second editionn out by now, but JVC delayed the release of their camera, and I feel we need to at least have some time with it. We've already got an HVR-A1 to experience for the book, so adding segments on CMOS now, as it's pretty clear that CMOS will be playing a fairly significant role in not just the future of HDV cameras, but likely all cameras. So, what was slated for August 1 now has no expected delivery date. But...we/I want it out as soon as possible.

Thanks for your answer DSE, I'll wait for the next one, by then the order problems will be over, I hope.
Eric

I'm sorry - but you've got the craziest lookin number for telephone that I've ever seen - WHEW!

Just had to say it. No harm no foul.

Dave

You try it and you'll get here.
No harm done Dave, its just the way our phone numbers are over here.
A very long time ago it was called " Bell thelephone com." just like in the USA.
Now it's called "Belgacom"
Eric.