What's the advantage of Shooting with Sony DV cam as oppose a progressive DV cam.

Juan Parra · July 26th, 2005, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Joshua Provost

BTW, the Sony PD cams are DVCAM format, so they capture twice as much color information: 4:2:2 instead of 4:1:1 on the DVX/XL.

That's untrue, please do not mislead people.
DVCAM is very close to DV; (a) 50% higher track pitch, track width, and tape speed; (b) 1/3 shorter run times per tape length; (c) defaulting to locked audio; and (d) no support for LP mode.
Thanks

Boyd Ostroff · July 26th, 2005, 12:00 PM

Juan is right. The data format of DVCAM, DV SP and DV LP are all identical - you get the same 1's and 0's. DVCAM is recorded to tape differently which is supposed to provide data integrity, and it has locked audio. Adam Wilt has a nice chart on his site that compares the different formats:

http://www.adamwilt.com/DV-tech.html

Joshua Provost · July 26th, 2005, 02:28 PM

Hey guys, my bad, brain fart! I'll edit my original post. Thanks for keeping me honest.

David Jimerson · July 26th, 2005, 07:50 PM

Vegas 6's 24p render is sweet. They really bumped it up a notch.

But Vegas 5's 24p render is very good, too. Not sure why anyone would think it was horrible.

Jerry Waters · August 4th, 2005, 04:34 PM

The Cinematone on the Z1 is very good.

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July 26th, 2005, 12:00 PM	#17
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,805	Juan is right. The data format of DVCAM, DV SP and DV LP are all identical - you get the same 1's and 0's. DVCAM is recorded to tape differently which is supposed to provide data integrity, and it has locked audio. Adam Wilt has a nice chart on his site that compares the different formats: http://www.adamwilt.com/DV-tech.html