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I'm on the side of BD, as I've mentioned in other posts, we financially bet the farm on BD nearly 2 years ago, and have authored BD and UMD (Dead format) for the past two years. Our local DZ is the first to offer BD in the world, so far as I know (delivered a few last summer and fall). However, BD, like VHS and other formats before it, will not have a long life. 7 years is the expected span of increase, and it's expected in 10 years that downloads and VOD will replace BD as a high definition format delivery mechanism. You can buy VHS players and tapes today, but who overall (other than childrens markets) is using them? I have an old reel-to-reel video system, but can't use it anywhere. My point (which could have been worded better), is that Blu-ray isn't the end-all/be-all/final word in HD delivery. It's just the next step, and a damn big step. and now that HD DVD is finally buried and dead as it should have been 2 years ago, we can go about the business of getting serious with HD delivery.

Hell, my TI99 is faster than your old PowerPC

Intermission? LMAO. That week is what the towels you don't care about are for, Dave. Either that or the church officially condones anal. *golfclap* See?? Religion *can* be fun!

Man, you have it all figured out, don't you? It's one of the benefits of age... we know what to do, and can improvise when necessary.

Faster shutter means much better quality when slowing the image down in post. Higher shutterspeed =more information= better slomo

Double time?

you will too... http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8303590

it wasn't in the budget to do PIA in Barcelona so we could provide the video feeds, sorry....Wanted to do it, but Barcelona is about $500.00 a day and can't be justified. We'll be back in Reno though, hopefully providing a couple live video feeds at that show, plus the youTube interviews like we did last year.

Bear in mind that HP outside the US isnt' the same as HP in the US...the HP version of Vista and XP are nightmarish, and filled with autoloaders, sniffers, and locators. Lots of adware, too. If you format your drive, and put clean OS on, then HP isn't any different than anyone else. I just finished hotrodding a new Sony desktop with a 4X BD burner (BWU-200S) and look forward to the speed. With card-based Xfer, it's about identical to linear editing, and a MUCH better product with titles, color correction, etc.

I misspoke, yes, Royal *makes* one, but I didn't *have* one with me, so used a stepup ring. Yes, the HC9 has a LANC. Other than being about 1/16 different in length, it's effectively the same body as the HC 3/5/7. Laszlo, I haven't tried Xferrng from card yet, I'm doubtful but will check it. I picked it up from FedEx literally minutes before the first jump, and my examination of it was on the ride to altitude.

I got two jumps in with the HC9, one a regular belly fly from an Otter, the other a hybrid from the Skyvan. Jumped the RW group with no wide (this camera is pretty wide on its own) and other than the 4 way exit just -barely- being too big to fit the entire frame, the camera did really well. I was surprised at the sweetness. Stabilizer turned off. Second jump, I had a Royal .5 on there, it was plenty wide. Unfortunately, Royal doesn't make a lens in the larger size of the HC9, so I had to use a step-up ring and got the dreaded vignette that I really, really hate. I've ordered a larger century optics for this camera, however. No issues. Shooting manual focus, exposure set to Beach, shutter speed at 1/120, XV on...looks great. I'll post a screen grab later.

All I had to see was "HP" and "Celeron" in there, and I stopped reading. I'd also avoid the Celeron. Off the shelf *can* work, if you know how to configure it. I'm one known to hate HP, so I'm very biased. I'll never own an HP product based both on personal experience and experiences within the video industry. If you *do* go for off the shelf, the new Gateways (no longer owned by gateway) Dell, Alienware, some Sony's are all pretty good and easy to configure.

Doesn't look like Maya or Lightwave? What are you using to compose these shots? Nice work, even in small resolution, looks wonderful!

I didn't even know there was a new series. When Glen Larson was producing it (David Hasselhof) I was one of the studio cats on that show. It was a hoot, but high pressure due to the low budget. Who is the new lead? What kind of car are they using?

Keep in mind that as the conversion to another file format is made, the exposure values are somewhat changed out. Laszlo's technique is a hack/workaround that happens to work so long as the image isn't being grossly pushed. We use this same technique with high end video/film to create color repair when exposure is over or badly underexposed. It works, it's not optimal, but it does work, and if you've captured the image correctly as Laszlo has or slightly underexposed it, then you can get some very reasonable results. For BEST results, you do need multiple exposures, preferably at least 3, and it requires a lot of processing horsepower, so I'd submit this is one of many reasons you won't find it built into a camera itself. Plus, I'd wager most photographers doing HDR like the idea of tweaking various channels in their image editor before doing the composite.

Please see the FAQ for a list of software tools... Computer; dependent if you're going Mac or PC, but in any case, faster is always best. RAM is important, you need/want at least 2 gigs. External HDD system. Decent monitor. Video card more or less doesn't matter, so don't get roped into a high end gaming card unless you're going to play games. Quad core is of course, best of all, if you can afford it. I recommend a custom system over an off the shelf system such as a Dell, Gateway, etc, but those can be modified to be video-efficient. For maximum flexibility, you can't beat a PC. For specific apps, in some ways you can't beat a Mac. Both are great tools. Premiere-semi-steep learning curve. Sony Vegas-almost no learning curve NewTek SpeedEdit-very small learning curve Canopus Edius, small learning curve Avid Xpress-semi-steep learning curve FCP-semi-steep learning curve. then there is photoshop or PhotoImpact, or any number of other tools for photo editing. SATA HDD's are best for speed, and external SATA's (for cost effective movement) is good to consider.

BD recorders are already dropping price, and expected that the third gen will be in the "affordable" with 6-7th gen being "cheap. We're currently in second gen. Bear in mind, if you're a PC user, you can burn an AVCHD Blu-ray compatible disc on a DVD 5 and standard DVD burner. DVDSP is supposed to do it, but thus far, I've not had a disc that a BD1 or BD300 will read. Conversely, I've made a few dozen BD discs using Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere.

No Blue Ray is still a scam Sony announced the next change in the format and that 1st gen players will not be able to support the new features mainly the online component for the DRM protection scam oops meant scheme. Only the Play station 3 can support that so even if you own a Blue Ray player it still sucks to be you as well. Thanks Sony for letting the consumers decide instead of paying off other studios to go with you preparatory format. FUD, and terribly misinformed.

Besides the Z7, yes. Z7 will be shipping right around NAB, I believe. It was announced at Government Expo back in October, if I recall correctly.

Please take any discussion about selling/purchasing a helmet to PM or Classifieds.

Well....truth is (usually) that multiple choices mean lowwer prices, because consumers have more choices, so price becomes the competition point. In the case of HD DVD and BD, BD knew not to play the price war game. Toshiba and Micro$oft tried valiantly to buy the market, losing nearly a billion $ in their quest to become the market leader. Every major in the industry knew that HD DVD was a short format, missing what the market demanded. They kicked out early, too early. Neither format was standardized when the first HD DVD players/discs began to ship. In short, Toshiba fucked the consumer, knew they were fucking the consumer, but figured they'd fix it later. Oops, they couldn't. BD consortium pledged that they would not buy the market, not lose price, and set up long-term agreements with the various studios and distributors, going about it as business usually runs. Toshiba paid monstrous incentives (nearly 500M in all) to studios as incentives (BD eventually paid out $$ too), but that too, failed them in the end. Between Netflix, Walmart, BestBuy, Blockbuster...HD DVD was doomed from October on. As I'd mentioned back then, my company bet very, very heavily on BD, investing wads of money we couldn't afford to lose, because we believed our gut, market analysis, and what we knew was coming. I'm grateful to have had this one come out OK for us, it got scary when we learned of the 200M "donation" from Toshiba to Dreamworks and Paramount. BD is the next long-term format, it'll be pricey for another year, and then be 'normal.' SD DVDs will go the way of VHS shortly after Xmas of 2008. HD is the most rapid integration of any format in the history of television at all ends. People are buying HD displays 3 times as fast as people bought color TV's and nearly 7 times as fast as folks bought flat panel displays in the first year. Most folks won't "replace" their collections with BD, they'll just augment them. Example, I have approx 2500 DVDs in my collection, and about 75BD discs. Only 3 are duplicate titles. Some are absolutely worth having in HD. Others...I'm fine with upsampled. Expect BD to make a bigger dent in your DZ world faster than you might think. Certainly faster than VHS to DVD did. Get used to the concept of shooting and editing on a 'puter, cuz it's coming faster than you're likely ready to experience. Had a DZO call me just tonight about how to deliver HD both on disc and over the web. For about a year to 18 months, our industry will be able to charge gross premium prices for HD, I think. The wedding/event industry is still getting away with it, and expected to do so until about the end of this year, maybe a little less. My anticipation is that DZ delivery will be about a year to a year and a half behind the WEVA industry. I guess we'll see....

HC7-OIS w/piezo stab HC5-EIS

MB38 will have the Scarlet long before me. I won't jump the Panasonic, more than likely. Their senior product marketing manager has a hard-on for me, as I was one of those that expose the HVX for what it isn't (as opposed to their marketing messaging) and they didn't like that very much. I get along great with their consumer division.

Now that Blu Ray won, I still see a 10 year gap in people upgrading to buy it. How much would you like to wager Blu-ray won't be around in 10 years, anymore than VHS is today?

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