Wayne Dupuis
May 21st, 2008, 07:46 PM
After digging around and after chatting up some here (thank you Steven and a few others) I have to say I am so impressed with the image quality I am getting from my A1. I shoot documentary style for Vancouver Island Health Authority. Most recently shooting a DVX100. I've been looking at different systems for a few months now, and after settling on this camera I am stoked about it's simplicity of use, and quality of output. HDV and FCP seem to me (after much research and trial and error) seamless. I've outputted HDV from both an NTSC DV (photo jpeg compression) timeline to Quicktime out to DVDSP after scaling up footage to fill a 4:3 frame... DVD's look clean; crystal clear and sized proportionally.
I've outputted HDV timeline using photo jpeg compression to an HDV Quicktime file and that to into Compressor's 190 best and out to DVDSP to create an SD project from HDV footage, same results but in 16:9 and it too is incredible.
The two presets I've used (thanks guys for these) Wolfgang's -3db and Dempsy's Truecolour. I do post to colour, and use Stib's filters on this stuff, either HDV timeline to SD timeline after edits or direct out if I am going for a 16:9 SD project and well; I love this camera.
A few (who don't own this camera yet) have run up my leg saying "it's not real HD, cause it's missing...) nothing I say. It's in the ballpark my friends.
Thank you for this site, and for 1. Convincing arguments to buy into the format. 2. Did I mention I love this camera.
Thanks again.
I've outputted HDV timeline using photo jpeg compression to an HDV Quicktime file and that to into Compressor's 190 best and out to DVDSP to create an SD project from HDV footage, same results but in 16:9 and it too is incredible.
The two presets I've used (thanks guys for these) Wolfgang's -3db and Dempsy's Truecolour. I do post to colour, and use Stib's filters on this stuff, either HDV timeline to SD timeline after edits or direct out if I am going for a 16:9 SD project and well; I love this camera.
A few (who don't own this camera yet) have run up my leg saying "it's not real HD, cause it's missing...) nothing I say. It's in the ballpark my friends.
Thank you for this site, and for 1. Convincing arguments to buy into the format. 2. Did I mention I love this camera.
Thanks again.