Thursday, January 30, 2014

What video camera should I buy?




seangriffe


What camera should I buy?
I want to shoot a 30 minute short film, but I want the quality to be... movie theater quality. You know quality that looks like the quality you would see at the movies.

Is it that there is a program I must download for that?



Answer
There are things in paid editing software to emulate movie looks.

Technically, however, you need HD at 24 FPS to get movie look.

The best camcorder I've seen for general production use is the Canon XL2 if you have the $4K to buy it.

It does SD at 24 FPS.

4k tv technology help?




Raphael


what kind of graphics card would handle it easily or at all?


Answer
Such cards are available now, but they are very high-end and are designed to go in professional editing systems. Here, for example, is a 4K-capable video capture card with HDMI In and Out, able to handle 4:2:2 and even 4:4:4 formats, as well as 3D:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=892446&is=REG&Q=&A=details

You can probably imagine if the video card is nearly $1K the price for a rig to handle everything else (very fast parallel processing, very high-res monitor, very large/fast HDDs to handle vast amounts of data, etc), not to mention the software package - well, it's pretty top-of-the mountain type stuff.
Just a card for the display costs as much as a cheaper PC:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2313386&SRCCODE=WEBGOOPA&cm_mmc_o=mH4CjC7BBTkwCjCV1-CjCE&gclid=CI2N-I_6oLYCFY9DMgod5mcAJw

So, be assured, since people are already buying 4K cameras, and with TV and other manufacturers with $ in their eyes, 4K and 8K are coming. The only problem is, with the speed of technological change, just about anything you get now will be obsolete in a few years when things really start going...




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