When Sony released their F5 and F55 camera systems, they rolled out yet another video codec in the form of XAVC. While the XAVC codec sports excellent quality and compression characteristics surpassing their legacy XDCAM format, it still has a major weakness. You can’t easily watch the footage. Either the Sony Content Browser or an editing suite such as Abode Premiere must be used. And 4K footage wont even play in the Content Browser …
The Irony: Analog recordings made 100 years ago are more likely to survive than digital recordings made today!
The Truth: There is not a “Magic Bullet” solution available today that will work for everyone. The digital formats you have recorded your material on coupled with the amount of digital material you need to archive and digitally preserve will dictate the solution and practices that will work best for you.
What is digital preservation?
Data backup: Making multiple (two or more) copies of a digital file. The copies should be st …
There are many tools available to assist with viewing, processing, or converting digital video, but few have the versatility or reliability of the AJA line of mini-converters. This usage guide isn’t a comprehensive list of features and capabilities of all the AJA converters. However, I will be presenting some commonly confronted video conundrums and how to solve them with the proper AJA converter.
1. My camera has only an HD-SDI output, but my monitors only have a standard definition (SD) “VIDEO” input.
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At Moving Picture, here in Miami / Fort Lauderdale area; the workflows of television & film production has been very different. Our video productions are aimed at achieving the best possible picture immediately in the camera, while the film approach separates distinct stages. First capturing an image with a wide dynamic range and then manipulating the picture in either a filmlab, telecine or in post-production.
Based on our High-End Camera rentals, the Sony HDCAM SR Decks, ARRI D-21, Viper FilmStream, Panavision Genesis and the Sony F23 ar …
The Panasonic AJ-HD-1400 is an invaluable solution for HD production. The AJ-HD-1400 records at 100 Mbps with 4:2:2 color sampling and intra-frame compression in multiple U.S. and worldwide Formats.
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The Multi-format HD/SD system records in 1080/59.94p, 1080/50i, 720/60p, 720/59.94p and 720/50p. The AJ-HD-1400 provides a new D-Sub 15-pin encoder remote control terminal. (component 1080/50i, 720/60p, 720/59.94p and 720/50p. Th …