Dear Friend,
I have been presented with a HDR-FX1E sony camera, by my client.
being a lawyer by profession i keep getting more gifts than cash.
jokes apart, I have been wondering whether this camera is good enough for film making. also which software is available for editing.
I'm trying to learn the art of film making.
Please guide me.
Kind Regards
Taarun Choudhury
Wish people would give things like that to me :).
Simple answer, yes, it's probably very good for movie-making, but editing support is limited right now. I believe Vegas has HDV support, Liquid Edition 6 has some support, and I think Premiere Pro 1.5 has some. Otherwise you need to copy to a higher-spec HD format and edit from there, or edit from footage downconverted to DV.
Isn't "Final Cut" available in an HD edition?
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If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If It's a PC, why embarass him?"
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"Never ask a man what kind of computer he uses.
If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If It's a PC, why embarass him?"
-Tom Clancy
Good point: but I don't think it supports HDV yet, except with extra plug-ins you have to pay for.
It says it supports DVCPRO HD. Honestly, I have no idea what that means (I'm not familiar with digital HD formats yet).
Here's a link -- www.apple.com/finalcutpro/
BTW, the recently released iLife '05 features an HD enhanced version of Apple's Incredibly user friendly iMovie. I know for a fact that the new iMovie supports HDV.
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"Never ask a man what kind of computer he uses.
If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If It's a PC, why embarass him?"
-Tom Clancy
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"Never ask a man what kind of computer he uses.
If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If It's a PC, why embarass him?"
-Tom Clancy
DVCPRO HD is basically high-definition DV. AFAIR the codec is similar to DV, but compresses 1440x1080 at 100Mbps rather than 720x480/720x576 at 25Mbps.
HDV is 25Mbps 1440x1080 using MPEG-2 compression instead of DV-style compression.
Okay. Thanks for clearing that up.
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"Never ask a man what kind of computer he uses.
If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If It's a PC, why embarass him?"
-Tom Clancy
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"Never ask a man what kind of computer he uses.
If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If It's a PC, why embarass him?"
-Tom Clancy
also..I heard that standard DVD burners only burn up to 490p or whatever it's called. I heard you have to have a DVD burner capable of buring 1080i or whatever it's called if you want the full potential of your HD shoot. and that those burners are like $3,000 or something. of course this was second hand info so it could be totally wrong. anyone know more about this?
