DVL-Digest 676 - Postings: Index Crystal Ball Gazing - HDTV roa Pinnacle's StreamGenie Crystal Ball Gazing - HDTV roa - "Perry" Some random thoughts: 1) Sony's 24P HDCAM records same data rate as Digital Betacam and is still not intra-frame 2) DV has more efficient compression algorithm than MPEG uses for I frame I believe that if an HD recording format based upon a more efficient MPEG type algorithm using DV tape was developed using current technology, a very good (production) quality would result. MPEG would result in some compromises wrt to linear editing, but BetacamSX has proven these are not serious once understood. I was at the Digital Media World show in London today and the Pinnacle (Truevision) CineWave card looks pretty close for HD. Of course, to do anything with it you need to decode it back to uncompressed and then you need very serious HD arrays to cope with anything more than seconds, but HD has come so far in the last couple of years that this is not a serious problem. FWIW Incidentally, looks like the Matrox RTMac/Apple FCP2 combination is delayed until the Spring, your guess is as good as mine to guess the guilty party! :} Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ Pinnacle's StreamGenie - Adam Wilt You know, buying video stuff is a lot like buying oats. If you want nice, > new, clean, pretty oats, you can expect to pay a reasonable price for > them. If, OTOH, you can be satisfied with oats that have already been > through a horse, those are always available a lot cheaper. Hee, hee! But we're not talking about preprocessed oats here, so much as the difference between oats in the bag and oats lying in the field, not all gathered together neatly for transportation. There's nothing that StreamGenie does that can't be done with a laptop, an MXProDV or WJ-MX50 switcher, and a few bits of add-on hardware and software -- not a big deal for the video geeks on this list. We can walk into a room, string cables, rig lights, connect up the stuff, fire up the software, and away we go. But not all of StreamGenie's customers are video geeks. (or whatever) may seem like a lot of money for the functionality, but the trick is that all you need to do with StreamGenie is walk in with one box, plug it in, turn it on, and go on-air (or on-wire, really!). You're paying for portability, small size, and integration, the same things that drive folks to pay twice as much for a laptop PC or Mac than for a desktop or tower version of the same machine. The more expensive laptop often isn't as capable: smaller screen, whacko pointing device, poor expandability, and so on. But that's not the point, the point is that it'll fit into a briefcase and work without a power cable. StreamGenie meets similar needs in the traveling-webcasting market (such as it is). You can schlep around a half-rack full of gear, plus cameras, or a StreamGenie lunchbox, plus cameras. What's your time (and your strong back) worth? Now, as to what comes *out* of StreamGenie, or any other web-video compression engine trying to put a gallon of video into a pint pot of bandwidth... now we're talkin' used oats! ;-) (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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