The case for XDCAM

[John McCully]

Nate, you are indeed a gentleman and a scholar. I guess the format I’d like is that which comes off the camera showing the highest quality possible. I have the Sony XDCAM viewer, and Vegas 7, installed on my computer. I have found the odd clip that has been rendered as mov files; interesting but not the real thing.

Thanks so much.

[Nate Weaver]

http://homepage.mac.com/nweaver/.Public/C0020.MXF.zip

Hope you like cats.

[Greg Boston]

Originally Posted by John McCully

I am listening to you all. Reading everything I can find. I truly appreciate all the fine writing right here, from all of you, and I'm more than impressed. But seriously, before I plonk down that kind of money...

Footage; untouched off the camera is what I want to see. Is that unreasonable?

Thanks folks, I know I'm asking a lot, and I promise to return the favor in due course.

John, I would be happy to oblige you with footage but I have a lens issue at the moment. Nate has put up a link for you to grab a quick file from.

When I said "don't listen to us", I meant that rather tongue in cheek. Of course I hope you listen to us! I hope you don't interpret that as confrontational because that wasn't my intent. I was trying to respond to your hesitations about image quality with a rather solid endorsement from Discovery HD. I think they would be harder on grading our Sony F330/350 footage than any of us would.

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