BEST IMMEDIATE OPTION FOR HD MOVIE! (*sorry Red*)

[Tom Lowe]

Is anyone renting out SI-2K or SI-2K minis? That might be a good option.

 

[PenGun]

The Sony XDCAM EX is gonna make much of the hassle go away. Maybe save your $10,000 and buy it. Some time in Sept it will be out.

Kicks the Canon all around the block. True 24P, Cine Alte, 1/2" CCDs 35Mb/s to the best mpeg2 4:2:0 there is. ExpressCard for storage about $250 for a 16G. Stuff it in yer laptop and throw away the dross.

I dunno I'm saving up for one, be about $8000 with 14x Fujion with real focus and aperture rings. Hard to beat outside of a Red.

 

[Rocket]

Is anyone renting out SI-2K or SI-2K minis? That might be a good option.

Yeah, we are going to be shooting with the SI-1920 pretty much exclusively until RED time (although I found out in another thread that the camera we will be renting is obsolete now, but will still do a good job). 1920 x 1080, RGB 4:4:4 to Cineform, and then we'll convert to DPX for conform in Scratch. That would be a great workflow for film out.

I was also thinking this camera might be an obvious choice in this scenario.

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Just making sure you know that this won't be as good as shooting straight to Cineform codec right? It will still be the hdv codec and all the problems but basically in a cineform timeline. You could convert to ProRes if you are editing final cut pro. Or capture to ProRes from a Mac Pro.

Just another option with a proven workflow and amazing quality is a DVX with a Andromeda modification.

What will be your post production requirements? Are you just doing simple color corrections and then applying a look in something like magic bullet? If so sraight hdv should work no problem. You only really need less compression than hdv if you are doing drastic color changes, alot of fast motion, and heavy visual effects.

If this is a story driven movie I would spend that 10k on talent,wardrobe,location, audio sweetening, and post production.

Yes Nik, I just gut a Macbook pro maximized and installed FCS2 among other programms, and recording to ProRes is the current option, still looking at Cineform workflow with the people from Cineform, at this time mostly tasting, different workflows, recording to tape, out from firewire, via componet out, and we like to try to record some fottage via BNC cable out from video 2, just need to get some more hardware.

First tests using M2 and Zeiss ZF 25, 50 and 85mm are great, just need to work some more on it and projected in to my 12' screen and get a better idea of the quality.

Again the goal is to get the best image to andle better the film out, in the XH-A1 I'm using Cine2 suggested as the mode to record for film out.

Thanks for your suggestions as I will take them in consideration among the tests options for final decision making.

Ciao,

KETCH ROSSI

 

[Ketch Rossi]

The Sony XDCAM EX is gonna make much of the hassle go away. Maybe save your $10,000 and buy it. Some time in Sept it will be out.

Kicks the Canon all around the block. True 24P, Cine Alte, 1/2" CCDs 35Mb/s to the best mpeg2 4:2:0 there is. ExpressCard for storage about $250 for a 16G. Stuff it in yer laptop and throw away the dross.

I dunno I'm saving up for one, be about $8000 with 14x Fujion with real focus and aperture rings. Hard to beat outside of a Red.

I was tryng to stay way from 4.2.0 all together, the XH-A1 records HD in 4.2.0 and Analog in 4.2.2, for now I continue to look for ways to get the best out of this camera and wen time comes to start shooting I will ceck the Sony out but it will be likely to late wen it comes out.

It is obvious that been the people that originated the 24p in the world of digital put together with Cinealta and is a no brainer what to expect from that, wil see.

Thanks for heads up on this camera.

Ciao,
KETCH ROSSI

 

[PenGun]

I was tryng to stay way from 4.2.0 all together, the XH-A1 records HD in 4.2.0 and Analog in 4.2.2, for now I continue to look for ways to get the best out of this camera and wen time comes to start shooting I will ceck the Sony out but it will be likely to late wen it comes out.

It is obvious that been the people that originated the 24p in the world of digital put together with Cinealta and is a no brainer what to expect from that, wil see.

Thanks for heads up on this camera.

Ciao,
KETCH ROSSI

The XDCAM EX also does HD SDI out and I believe Component and HDMI. I have also read that the Sony mpeg2 4:2:0 colourspace is the best in the industry but I have no real evidence this is true.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Yeah, we are going to be shooting with the SI-1920 pretty much exclusively until RED time....1920 x 1080, RGB 4:4:4 to Cineform

Damn, those are nice specs. I love Cineform's codec. And it can overcrank? What is the sensor size, in terms of which types lenses you can use? Cine 35mm lenses?