Michael Brown

I apologize as this may be an old topic but ... I am about to be booted if I don't ask something. So, those beautiful shots of the sun with my Z1U or HDCAM 750 - am I destroying the CCDs?

Is there any way to record HD on the Z1U other than through the firewire input? Is the component only an out, and if so, is there any hack or way to trick the camera to accepting an input through the component? cheers, David

Thanks for your imput guys - going to test both the canon and the fuji out on tuesday hopefully - will let you know what we think. Consensus is that the Fuji's might just edge out the Canon's, although haven't had any first hand experience with that Canon 4.7, which is supposed to be pretty great. Cheers, David

Two questions in a row - new here, so don't know if this is proper or not. Anyways, we plan on editing an HD production on Final Cut Pro and would like some insight. On a previous production we shot with HD Cam tapes and downconverted them to DV (time code lock) and then used final cut pro to do the offline. From this we took an EDL to our online and they finished it up. We are going to invest in a G5 for this upcoming production and are exploring how to do the editing. We'll have an HD Deck, so that problem is solved. The question is whether to figure out a way to do this with the Mac, directly off the HD tapes, or again downconvert to DV. The idea of doing off the HD means that we'll spend less time and money in the online. At a deeper look, Final Cut Pro HD, is that really HD? It only seems compatible with DVC Pro HD. Our impression is that to edit off of HD Cam with Final Cut Pro means a 5,000 dollar PCI card and then tons of storage space, even with compression, and that the compatibility with FCP HD is less than seemless. Any ideas as to which will be the better course of action? Thanks, David

I work with a production company that will be shooting HD over in Nepal this November and stumbled across this website. Wish I had found it sooner and any information you all might have is appreciated. We're going to be shooting with a Sony 750 camera. Back in 2001 we carried one of these to summit of Everest and used amongst others, a Canon 9x5.5 lens - think it was the widest available back then. We were looking to get the same lens for this upcoming shoot because it was such an important part of the previous shoot and yeilded fantastic results. Instead we've come across the newer Canon 11x4.7 and also a host of people saying that the Fuji's are the way to go as they breathe less than the Canons. Canon says that the 4.7 is the widest available, but there's a Fuji that's a 4.3 I think. Then there's the choice of a CINE vs. ENG (seperate from the Canon vs. Fuji question) - this one seems easy as the Eng is easier to operate and more automated. And we are NOT going for the film look, instead we want a large depth of field and we'll be shooting 1080i. Realize this is a long one, but any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot, David