News has been a bit slow recently.\u00c2\u00a0 The new Intel processors are not shipping in volume yet, so they have had little impact on the market.\u00c2\u00a0 The only recent\u00c2\u00a0items of interest\u00c2\u00a0that I am aware of are that Matrox released the 3.1 version of their AXIO software, and Sony announced two new HDV camcorders, that won’t ship until next year.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0AXIO 3.1<\/a> has few major improvements.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides overall stability improvements and bug fixes, Canon’s 25f HDV mode is now supported for you PAL folks,\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0AXIO systems\u00c2\u00a0are now compatible with Omneon<\/a> media servers.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing significant that effects the workflow of the other 95% of their users.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0Sony’s new HDV Cameras<\/a> have a couple of interesting features.\u00c2\u00a0 The HVR-S270U <\/a>is\u00c2\u00a0shoulder mount camcorder while the\u00c2\u00a0HVR-Z7U<\/a> has the more usual ‘Handycam’ formfactor.\u00c2\u00a0 Both cameras use\u00c2\u00a0a similar imaging solution to the HVR-V1U, with three\u00c2\u00a0CMOS imagers at 1920×1080. \u00c2\u00a0The larger HVR-S270U supports full sized DV cassettes, for over four hours of continuous recording, and has an HD-SDI output.\u00c2\u00a0 The smaller HVR-Z7U has a cheaper HDMI output instead of the SDI, and is limited to standard 1-hour MiniDV size cassettes. News has been a bit slow recently.\u00c2\u00a0 The new Intel processors are not shipping in volume yet, so they have had little impact on the market.\u00c2\u00a0 The only recent\u00c2\u00a0items of interest\u00c2\u00a0that I am aware of are that Matrox released the 3.1 version of their AXIO software, and Sony announced two new HDV camcorders, that won’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[24,30,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe biggest feature that sets these two cameras apart is that they both use interchangable lenses.\u00c2\u00a0 Previously, the Canon XL-H1<\/a> was the only HDV camcorder to support this.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the\u00c2\u00a0primary feature that is missing from\u00c2\u00a0the new SxS flash media based XDCam camcorder, the Sony EX1<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Speaking of flash based recording, both of these cameras also support a new\u00c2\u00a0solid state recording accessory, the HVR-MRC1<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This little iPod sized\u00c2\u00a0device attaches to the side of the camera, and\u00c2\u00a0records the HDV stream directly to\u00c2\u00a0solid state\u00c2\u00a0CompactFlash\u00c2\u00a0memory cards, bypassing the tape entirely, but not the HDV compression.\u00c2\u00a0 CompactFlash cards are significantly cheaper than P2 or SxS cards, so I can see this becoming a very popular accessory.\u00c2\u00a0 Supposedly it interfaces directly with the new camcorders, but existing HDV camcorders can take advantage of it through the iLink or IEEE1394 firewire port, which transmits the HDV compressed stream live.\u00c2\u00a0 This would be similar to the disk based Firestore<\/a> products, but with the added advantage of being a solid state solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"