>Reini (and the rest of the gang)....check this out. >http://www.dalsa.com/dc/dc.asp > >This is where things are heading. Think "trickle down".....in consumer and >professional electronics, the trickle down theory actually DOES work.
It's all a matter of CCD technology. When they are capable or making CCDs with high resolution that can produce 25 frames or more per second, it's easy to build the cameras around those CCDs. I understand that Dalsa is still waiting for this CCD? Rieni ----Nope, not at all, and neither is Thomson (maker of the Thomson Viper "Filmstream" camera) neither is anyone. The problem is one of workflow. These cameras output so much raw data that, without some form of compression, the Dalsa can fill a 1.5 terabyte drive in FIFTEEN SECONDS. Nothing has enough storage at that RATE OF THROUGHPUT to deal with it, so compression of some sort of necessary. The idea of using a "blunt little tool" like a video tape to store this pristine stuff is also laughable, so it remains up to the stacks of high speed RAIDs and the best workflow keeps everything "in data". But some folks shoot to tape with these monsters already and put up with compression schemes in the process and the results are still spectacular. Dalsa cameras are already being used, but the clear winner is the Filmstream at this stage. http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/products/cameras/viper/ The other problem is one of cost, with the Dalsa going close to the price range of a Panaflex, and the Viper not too far behind. And then there is the Kinetta. At around sixty thousand dollars it proposes to set a new standard in lower cost digital cinematography....but it's not available yet :-( Again, it's not the lack of sensors....the Kinetta is being developed totally "out of pocket" by one man, Jeff Kreines, and a small team, almost like the Tucker automobile, while the large companies silently "plot his demise". www.kinetta.com It's my understanding that CMOS sensors hold more promise than CCD's anyway, so we're probably going to have to wait and see. But the point I was attempting to make is that we are already there in a sense, because the upper end of digital cinematography is already making product which is being seen by folks who think they are watching film. "Collateral" was shot almost entirely with a Viper Filmstream camera and was processed in "digital intermediate" as data, not as tape and not as film. The process never touched film until it was laser recorded to film stock as a finished movie. JeffH Ch.S. ---------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.8 - Release Date: 1/3/2005 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
