One Sweet-looking Rig
I leave Guggenheim at the Filmmaker’s Lounge and cross the street to the NY Lounge where I’m greeted with a picture of…Davis Guggenheim, holding the public debut of an elegant little JVC number. You can see it too—today through Sunday.
Craig Yanagi, JVC’s National Marketing Manager, Creation Products calls it the “GY (as in Get Your) HM (as in Her Majesty) 100. He’s really proud of it and it’s getting buzz in part because of the Apple benediction (a first-ever licensing of Quicktime to a camera manufacturer).
It’s “the world’s first professional handheld camcorder,â€? according to Yanagi delivering 1920x1080i (4:2:0) at 35Mb, wrapped in native Quicktime and recorded to Secure Digtial High Capacity media cards. (It records full raster 1080p and interpolates to 1080i). Also delivers 1080p at 24/25/30 and 1280 x 72p (60/50/30/25/24. A shoulder mount version is scheduled for introduction next month. So this puts it at the high end of the camcorder range. The industry’s first native support for Quicktime is just part of the ease of post—it fits into all existing MPEG 2 workflows.
If you saw IBC’s announcement about the alliance for HDCAM EX and track that to this camera’s introduction last week(ships in April), you will likely not be surprised by the last five minutes of this video from the Final Cut Pro SuperMeet at MacWorld. Watch Richard Townhill from Apple pull up the codec for log and transfer and you’ll see that the card holds both .mov (for immediate FCP editing) and .mp4.
