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Looks to me like the Kinetta is just a prototype at this point. I didn't see anything on Kinetta's website to tell me otherwise. Likewise for the Arri HD prototype. Panavision, otoh, has announced production on their Genesis HD camera for the end of the year. That camera is 1920X1080 (with...

Rentals? Let me ask you this- have you considered renting a camera? If there are any good rental houses in your area, you can always rent more camera than you could buy for the same amount of money.

And today's lesson is: Check all cameras on a production monitor!! A lot of monitors allow multiple connections, with a simple push button on the front to toggle between sources. It's not as convenient as having a dedicated monitor for each camera, but it is one place where you can...

My guess is that it's trademarked by JVC.

Never make critical color or exposure decisions on an LCD (especially, a tiny flip-out). LCD technology still isn't up to that- maybe in a few more years. To make critical exposure & color decisions, you should have a production monitor on set that can be calibrated to color bars. And you...

Garbage in, garbage out. Your final product can never be better than what you put into it.

dv-500 I've cut a lot of footage from the DV-500. It's a great camera- good low light performace, beautiful skin tones. And the larger size & weight discourage the 'jerky-cam' style of shooting that I hate so much...

The picture from Canon XL series cameras tends to be a little soft & very red. Sony generally gives a nice sharp picture with excellent skin tones. Panasonics are also sharper than the Cannons, & give better skin tones. How much were you thinking of spending?

Camera options From Panasonic: http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelList?storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&catGroupId=14569 The SDX-900 is standard def, 16X9, '24p'. It's really worth looking at. If you want to go HD, the Varicam is about 2X your price range, but it's...

HD throughput Generally speaking, HD requires bigger, faster hard drives, along with some way of getting from deck to computer. Think Ultra 160 or Ultra 320 SCSI, or fibre channel. The drives typically have to be striped together into RAID arrays. Bandwidth for uncompressed HD can be 6Gb per...

What's your budget for a camera? A true HD camera will cost 10X or more what a DVX-100 will. Which is why there are rental houses...

OK, so it sounds like we had a less than perfect shoot. Did you have a good quality video monitor on set? Preferably one that can be calibrated to color bars? Make sure it's on your set next time! It can be invaluable in checking exposure & color balance. Especially with a camera like the...

Here's the question: is the footage from either camera properly exposed? If not, a re-shoot with better exposure will be your best option. Especially if there are other issues. It should be part of the DP's job (as well as the sound mixer, the editor, and more than a few others as well) to be...

If you have a good quality recorder, it should be easy to record your own. Find a couple of pieces of relatively smooth metal. A pair of flanges, pipes or bars, perhaps. A flange & a bar... you get the picture. Bang them together to see if they have the kind of ring you want to hear. Run...

Re: Movie a day from being complete but Mayhem Complete or r As an editor, let me share an old saying with you: Garbage In, Garbage Out. No editor can make a bad performance good. That is up to the actors themselves. Also, look at the preformance that this actor has already delivered. Is it...

Using a fractal based program to blow up an image introduces it's own kind of artifatcting. The edges are very pronounced, for one. BTW, Panavision has announced a new HD camera with a super-35mm sized sensor. It features dual SDI outputs for 4:4:4 output, and will deliver fulll HDTV...

Take a look at customflix.com. They offer burn on demand service, and will provide all of the shopping cart infrastructure.

Take a look here:http://www.dependentfilms.net/files.html

Sounds like "The Shining" meets Stephen King. Wait! Didn't Stephen King write "The Shining"? Hmm...

Yup, DV is recorded on tape as digital 1s & 0s. When you import that into your computer via firewire you're making an exact copy, just as you would if you were making a copy of any other computer file. But, there could be errors caused by any number of things (dirty heads, voltage...