Have You Hugged Your Metadata Today? Part 1

By Jan Ozer

It’s going to be an exciting NAB Show for Panasonic. Not only will P2 cards be available at 32GB capacity (with 64GB on the horizon), the company will show AVC-Intra technology with full-raster 1920x1080 capture at 100Mbps--a great upgrade from the native 1280x1080 resolution used in DVCPRO HD 1080. Adobe also has a new bauble for the DVX crowd, specifically native MXF (Media eXchange Format)...


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Panasonic HVX200 Focus Page

Digital Content Producer articles and external resources on the Panasonic HVX200...


Shoot Tools: Focus Enhancements

By Dan Ochiva

The Focus Enhancements FS-5 hard-drive recorder is the company’s latest version of its Direct To Edit (DTE) model, which adds metadata capabilities, additional file-format support, and UDF disk formatting....


Shoot Tools: Air Sea Land Gear

By Dan Ochiva

The BluFish 2 HD underwater housing from Air Sea Land Gear, features include dome- and flat-port optics and a rotating collar with 1/4in. taps that allow the housing to be mounted to multiple grip arms and devices. ...


Shoot Tools: Panasonic

By Dan Ochiva

The Panasonic AJ-P2C064 P2 card provides 64GB of storage....


HDV Camcorders Focus Page

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Edit Review: AJA Video Systems Io HD

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

Mention video I/O for the Mac, and chances are Kona card will enter the conversation even among production people who know little about Mac-based editing...


Edit Expertise: Storage Shootout

By Dan Ochiva

Solid-state storage drives (SSD) are generating a lot of noise as the putative next big thing, but spinning-hard-drive storage isn't going away any time...


Shoot Review: Sony HVR-HD1000U

Reviewer: Jan Ozer

Sony's HVR-HD1000U isn't the type of camcorder to woo you with subtle features. You either need a single-chip $1,900 shoulder-mount HDV camcorder with fairly Spartan controls or you don't. You'll probably know instantly if this camcorder is for you. Either way, the target market is likely broader than you think...


Encoding Best Practices, Part 2

By Jan Ozer

In the previous installment, you read about which streaming codecs major broadcasters and corporate producers were using. Now you’ll see the results of some quality comparisons that I presented at Streaming Media East in New York last month...


Encoding Best Practices, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

This month I take a break from our HD production chores to look at streaming-related issues. In this first installment, I’ll share the results of a survey I recently completed that details the best practices of high-profile broadcast and corporate streaming producers, examining options such as codec choice, video resolution, audio and video data rates, and frame rate...


Software Field Monitors, Part 2

By Jan Ozer

As I discussed last issue, one of the coolest product categories in the HDV@Work space is software programs that provide video scopes, a large preview monitor, direct-to-disc recording capabilities (DDR), and other features. In this issue, we'll take a closer look at two products in that category. Adobe OnLocation CS3 is the grandfather of software field monitors...


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