Archive of the HD/HDV Category

This is the 2009 Reel Impressions Cinematography showcase which premiered at the 2009 NAB Show in Las Vegas on a 24 ft. movie screen, projected in HD.

Reel Impressions is a joint partnership between the NAB Show and Reel-Exchange.com.

This year Reel-Exchange member, and Reel Impressions participant, Westley Gathright posted video blogs on his first experience attending the NAB Show in Las Vegas. Westley patrolled the exhibit halls and attended some of the sessions and provided his POV via videos captured with a Flip camera then posted to YouTube.

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Calibrated Software, an innovator of applications and plug-ins for video, asset management and mobile platforms, announced an enhanced family of cross-platform tools to streamline and speed the process of viewing and using high-definition camera and other video files within popular post-production systems and editing packages. The products are being demonstrated at NAB booths #C5108 (Ikegami) and #SL8307 (Square Box Systems). Read on at The Briefing Room

More 2009 NAB Show news from The Briefing Room

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Sonnet Technologies announced the Fusion RX1600RAID, a high-performance, high-capacity, direct-attached 3U rackmount storage system that provides data throughput speeds suitable for work with uncompressed HD video up to 2K resolution. Fusion RX1600RAID is designed to provide high reliability in demanding editing and content creation environments. With its drives formatted as a RAID 5 set, this 16-drive system delivers data transfer speeds up to 1,000MBps read and 750MBps write. An integrated SAS expander facilitates fast, easy expansion of the Sonnet system, enabling the user to connect additional 16-drive enclosures. Read on at The Briefing Room

More 2009 NAB Show news from The Briefing Room

One of the most significant issues that makes me uncomfortable with tapeless workflows is the lack of backup for my source videos. Though I seldom have to recapture my DV or HDV video once I’m finished with a project, sometimes I do, and there’s a comfort factor to knowing that the tape is there. Sure, I should dutifully back up every SD or P2 card during capture, but I should also watch what I eat and do more yoga, and you know what happened to those two resolutions.

Well, Primera Technology has gone a long way towards quieting my fears with a tapeless video production workflow created by integrating Imagine Products‘ ShotPut Pro with their line of CD/DVD/Blu-ray recorder/printers. When you install ShotPut Pro, you can designate up to three archive locations, which can include the Primera printer. more

Reel-Exchange Community Manager Craig Erpelding talked with Mark Randall of Adobe about the company’s products featured at NAB 2009.

Ensemble Designs has 28 new products at NAB 2009. Cindy Zuelsdorf of Ensemble Designs demonstrates one of them—the company’s new 4500 MPEG transport stream processor for translating DVB-ASI to SMPTE 310M in broadcast and satellite applications. Watch the video.

More videos from Broadcast Engineering TV

Panasonic announced a range of products, which I’m sure you’ll read about elsewhere, and a couple that tingled my radar. First was the AG-HMC40, a compact AVCHD recorder that should ship before June, 2009 for under $3,000 street. Though the product use 1/4in. CMOS chips, it captures frames at full resolution HD, not the partial rez used in products like the HMC150. (See my review.)Otherwise, it pretty much shares the same feature set as the HMC150, including the cool waveform monitor and focus assist, though XLR connectors are options, not standard.

The toy I really want to play with, though, is the HPX300, the newest entry in Panasonic’s P2-based camcorder line that shipped in March and costs $10,700 (See Barry Braverman’s review.). It’s a bit much for the event/corporate crowd that I usually review for, but it debuts two technologies to watch for in future Panasonic camcorders, including some hopefully in my $3K - $6K price range. more

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Matrox Video Products Group announced Matrox MXO2 Mini, a new version of the award-winning Matrox MXO2 I/O device. It can be used with Mac and PC laptop and desktop systems and popular applications including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop, and many more. It provides capture and playback of high definition video via HDMI and analog component; or NTSC and PAL via analog component S-Video, and composite. Users can convert standard definition videos to high definition, or vice versa, while capturing or playing out, using Matrox MXO2 Mini’s high-quality dedicated hardware scaler. Matrox MXO2 Mini turns an inexpensive HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor thanks to Matrox’s unique color calibration tool. This product also makes it easy to edit AVCHD footage by capturing into an edit-friendly compressed or uncompressed format. Read on at The Briefing Room

More 2009 NAB Show news from The Briefing Room

Also a bit light on product introductions—especially smaller camcorders—was Sony’s Sunday press conference. In the company’s defense, it’s unleahed a whole bunch of handheld HDV and XDCAM EX models in the past 12 months, so evidently the company has extracted itself from the industry’s traditional NAB-centric product release cycle.

So, what is new for Sony at NAB 2009? First, the SRW-9000 is the first camcorder based on the HDCAM SR format. It’s intended as a mobile, Steadicam-friendly B-camera to the Sony F23. The SRW-9000 has 2/3in. CCDs and a 14-bit A/D converter. As standard, the camcorder does 4:2:2 10-bit recording at 1080/23.98P, 24P, 25P, 29.97P, and 1080/50i/59.94i. It can also record 4:2:2 1080/50P/59.94P. Full 4:4:4 recording and output is possible via the optional HKSR-9003 RGB 4:4:4 processing board. The SRW-9000 will be available in December; pricing has not yet been determined. more