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positioning, when you magnify the picture.
In many cases, commercial films are shot,
captured to HD with telecine, and finished with
SD. If you have it in HD, you can pan and zoom
in SD. So, it’s great that you can magnify the
picture and shift the frame a bit. In that respect, it
has more functions than a simple converter. You
can also do it after you get the video into a non-
linear system, but then it has to do the rendering
and it bogs down because of the huge file sizes.
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No-one’s shooting commercials directly to HD
yet. The stance is that it can’t yet be done
efficiently at the PC level. Although it is OK to
use PCs for simple cut editing or transitions of
dissolve only, computers just don’t have the
power to deal with the heavy tasks of putting
everything together.
Component, SDI, DV... it seems to cover
everything that the industry currently uses. I
don’t need more than that. I was just about to buy
an HDV deck. But the one with HD-SDI costs a
serious amount of money. But now I might get a
much cheaper one and use this VC-300HD for
HD-SDI.
As far as editing is concerned, you might be
able to edit in HDV format. For instance, if you
want to use HD-SDI for capture to Final Cut Pro,
you need an input/output board. That means you
need to move to a Mac Pro in a tower case. But
now you can run the HDV data through this [VC-
300HD]. Even if the video is HDCAM, it lets
you do the editing in HDV on a MacBook Pro.
Then again, if you are working with archives,
rather than taking it to HDCAM, you can do it
with HDV. You can burn it on a Blu-ray recorder
via FireWire. You have a number of alternatives.
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