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Sony HVR-A1 and HDR-HC Series
Sony's latest single-CMOS additions to their HDV camcorder line.

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Old April 1st, 2006, 10:48 PM   #1
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Does anyone know ... if you record using the component cables hooked up to a capture card, by-passing the tape, if the signal still has mpeg2 long gop HDV compression? I imagine it still has the color space of 4:2:0, but I think if I were to hook one up to an HD component IN card I could bypass the compression?
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Old April 2nd, 2006, 05:18 AM   #2
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A component signal is analog, so there is no compression by definition. The compression you see would depend on the capture card.

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Old April 2nd, 2006, 08:20 AM   #3
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but no, you will not get higher resolution or color sampling by using the compenent output--it's just reading the 4:2:0 signal from the HDV tape.
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Old April 2nd, 2006, 11:00 AM   #4
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4:4:4 Analog output

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Does anyone know ... if you record using the component cables hooked up to a capture card, by-passing the tape, if the signal still has mpeg2 long gop HDV compression? I imagine it still has the color space of 4:2:0, but I think if I were to hook one up to an HD component IN card I could bypass the compression?
The Component analog outputs of the HVR-A1U are full 4:4:4 signal. This signal can be captured and sent to an SDI converter and then writted to either HDCAM, or if you wish, you can save it to a high-speed raid drive.

The Viper HD camera system does this right out of the box, but you can buy a new Mercedes or Ferrari for less money.

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Old April 2nd, 2006, 02:49 PM   #5
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New Mercedes or Ferrari? That's a huge price difference, haha.

Anyways, could someone explain the whole component input/output, capture card, SDI converter, HDCAM, raid drive thing to a newbie? I don't really understand what any of those are, how they work, or what they do, much less why you would use them.
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