HD Formats
I know I’ve already linked to HD For Indies once this month, but I followed a link to another post over there that was incredibly informative, especially as I’ve been thinking about the different HD formats recently….
Thanks to worldofmaya for posting on VFXTalk.com with this link:
HD For Indies: Format Overview: what the various tape formats really record
In the article, Mike runs through all of the available formats, what they capture, what they record to tape, what compression is used and what visual quality is lost. If you’re thinking of shooting something on HD of any kind, then well worth a read.
Oh, and the shake tip will be coming at some point this week….
April 28th, 2005 at 17:01
oooh, look!
something grey just dripped out of my ear!
that was a fair big to digest at once, but damn that site is a great resource.
i find it rather interesting that the modern format wars are keeping themselves limited to DV bitrates, when any machine made in the last 4 years can reasonably handle more –for indie/prosumer/consumer usage.
if we were able to double the bitrate, and hit (oh no!) a whole _7Mb/s_ woudlnt we be able to get considerably higer wuality footage out of similar devices?
it seems ridiculous to cap the HDV/wtfever bitrates so low, and subject the consumers to do much compression. those that use such hardware would have no qualms about requiring more disk capacity.
they might be trying to avoid cannibalisng their high end, but using a single large ccd versus 3 small ccds could still keep that divider with a fair bit of quality coming back off the tape
my irritated 2 cents.