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Choosing formats will go hand and hand with your goals. Options from the old faithful DV to the trusted DVCPRO HD to the newly raved XDCAM HD can become a daunting task. Lets make it simple DV is fine and will give you good detail, but DVCPRO HD options will retain much more color and XDCAM HD almost doubles your pixel ratio. Keep your intended use in mind before you acquire your camera. If you are going to be the next big movie producer than a XDCAM HD may be the way to go, but if most of your videos will be used for a video sharing site then a DVCPRO HD format may suffice.

HDCAM vs. DVCPRO HD? Whice one is the better format? To shoot on, to master out to and work on

Why does the HVX200 capture 1280x1080 rather than 1920x1080? Probably because Panasonic couldn’t source imaging chips that would capture the native image, pixel for pixel, at the necessary price or size. As you can see in Figure 1, however, other formats—including XDCAM HD, AVCHD, and AVC-Intra—do or will support true pixel-for-pixel capture and storage. Again, all other things being equal, these cameras/formats should deliver better detail and resolution than DVCPRO HD, or HDV for that matter.

Panasonic produce a competing tape-based format to HDCAM called DVCPro 100 or DVCPro HD. There are 2 x discrete formats which use the same DVCPro tapes: the first is Varicam (720p) and the second is a 1080p version which is used by the HDX-900 Camcorder. The tapes and VTRs are common but the similarity ends there.

DVCPro HD has received a lot of popularity recently as the easy post-production capability to edit to edit native HD in Final Cut Pro (FCP) and AVID, makes this a very practical acquisition and post format.

The BBC Starwinder project produced a report a few years ago which estimated that compared with shooting on Digi Beta, editing on AVID and conforming onto Digi Beta for a standard delivery project, money could actually be saved by shooting onto DVCPro HD using the HDX-900 and post-producing using FCP in HD and then delivering to HD afterwards! The dynamic range is also better than the ubiquitous DVW-790p Digi Beta Camcorder, stock is approximately the same cost and the filmic qualities are also excellent, which explain why series like Robin Hood and others now shoot using the HDX-900 Camcorder onto DVCPro HD. There is a later variant which shoots the same image size and format but shoots instead onto solid-state memory cards called P2 – however, if you are happier shooting onto tape, then this is a serious camera and format to consider.

Here is the deal. I have 12 rolls of Super 16 mm that will be processed at fotokem in L.A.. Then I will take the footage for a telecine transfer at a L.A. based post house who will then transfer my super 16mm footage to HDcam. Here is the question. Since I am working on an apple x-serve (with fiber optical network) with FCP 6.0.3 , do you think it will be able to handle uncompressed HD (8bit 1920x1080) ? If the uncompressed HDcam stream is too much for my system, shall I ask for a DVCPRO HD dub from HDcam so that I can do my offline in DVCPRO HD? I will have the post house log the footage for me on an external Hard Drive, but they would like to know which quicktime codec I would like to use (HDcam? DVCPRO HD? etc etc etc ? ). So if anyone out there has already done some kind of similar work, pease let me know how you did it.

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