Test Drive: Sony HVR-HD1000U, Part 2

Back again with the new $1,900 shoulder-mount Sony HVR-HD1000U. In this segment, I analyze image quality and low-light performance...







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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

Digital Content Producer articles and external resources on HDV camcorders...


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...


Know Your Formats, Part 2

By Jan Ozer

This month, we’re tackling high-definition video formats. In the first segment, I discussed what aspect ratio is and why you care about it. In this issue, I’ll discuss the remaining items of the features table...


Know Your Formats, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

Many digital shooters started with DV video, which hammered the nail in the analog-video coffin and democratized video production by dropping the price of capturing very good video from $25,000 (Betacam SP camera and deck)...


Have You Hugged Your Metadata Today? Part 2

By Jan Ozer

In the last segment, I extolled the virtues of Panasonic’s P2 cards and the Material eXchange Format (MXF) used thereon. In this segment I review Adobe’s P2 and MXF workflow. Just to change things up, I’ll write this segment as a FAQ, rather than a narrative, which will identify the questions I feel are key to any implementation of P2/MXF support...


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