JVC’s new camera is world’s first with QuickTime format support
By S Simmons. Filed in Blogs and links, cameras, Final Cut Pro, from the net |
UPDATE: The official English JVC link is up and working here.
I was intrigued tonight (or last night if you read this on Thursday morning) about a number of Twitters coming from the San Francisco Final Cut Pro Supermeet at MacWorld. Reports were of JVC announcing the GY-HM100, the “World’s first Apple’s QuickTime file format support” camera. The tweets were saying it records directly onto SD cards, 3 pounds and less that $4,000. By having true QuickTime support, a file can go from card to edit with no transcoding or rewrapping using the XDCAM-EX codec. There was a link posted to go to pro.jvc.com/hm100 that takes you here. As of midnight central the continue to GY-HM100 product pages takes you to a password protected log-in screen. It’ll probably be fixed by morning.
In the meantime I did some poking around Google and it returned this link to a Japanese JVC site with more specs on what looks to be the camera. The specs below are from the Google translation:
Apple’s QuickTime (for Final Cut Pro) ? the world’s first file format support, SDHC card and a direct record. No image degradation by wrapping the file conversion and codec conversion. In addition, MPEG-2 ISO response to correspond to the major non-linear editing system.
HDV 720p format is used in full-HD1920 mode (60i) to respond. 1080p in 24p/30p (/ 25p) features.
Stick to high-quality HQ mode (35Mbps) and can save space for better compatibility mode SP (19Mbps/25Mbps) can be selected.
A new 1 / 4 type progressive CCD adopted. 3CCD rich color and unique 14-bit DSP system to achieve high resolution. The newly developed Fujinon (shares) in high-performance 10-times zoom lens, high-quality support HD recording.
Weight significantly reduce the burden of shooting 1.4kg lightweight, compact design. Increased mobility, dramatically expanding the field to shoot.
SDHC card slot and two with the group, about two cards can record six hours long (SDHC32GB, SP [19Mbps] recording mode).
By morning there might be a more official site up form JVC America but if you are up late and want a sneak peek then here it is from Japan. Unfortunately it looks from the translation that it is lacking a FireWire port. While the actual judgement on this workflow will wait until the camera is in hand this idea is perfect since it shoots to XDCAM and doesn’t introduce a new codec that software manufactures will have to implement. We have too many different codecs as it is. This is a really great idea to think that finally you can go from shoot to edit with absolutely no transcoding, converting or rewrapping. Just a file copy from card to media drive. The big question I have is what took these camera makers so long to do this!
Thursday, January 8th 2009 at 2:02 am
Okay, so no re-wrapping required for FCP, but presumably still required for Avid editing. What happened to MXF? It looked so promising for a while, even if there was some disagreement on the implementation.
Thursday, January 8th 2009 at 2:51 am
“HDV 720p format is used in full-HD1920 mode”
What does that mean?
Thursday, January 8th 2009 at 3:14 am
“This is a really great idea to think that finally you can go from shoot to edit with absolutely no transcoding, converting or rewrapping. Just a file copy from card to media drive. The big question I have is what took these camera makers so long to do this!”
Oh yeah… This is what P2 has been on Avid for years, and XD is reasonably close to that too. From an Avid perspective it’s only the recent MP4 (XDCAM EX) and now QT formats that require extensive re-wrapping.
Thursday, January 8th 2009 at 7:30 am
Good question Jon. Must be something funky in the translation.
Dylan …. that’s a GREAT point about MXF in Avid. This exact thing has been available from P2 / Avid for a while. It’s just too bad that NLEs couldn’t standardize on a single format then all the camera vendors could give us compatible stuff! Of course they care less about editing than everything else.
Thursday, January 8th 2009 at 7:41 am
As a FCP user this definitely make it a move attractive camera. Does this only work because it’s HDV, or could a DVC Pro HD camera do this some day as well?
Thursday, January 8th 2009 at 8:05 am
After lookig at the English page you posted on twitter – http://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/features.jsp?model_id=MDL101845 – It looks like the whole “HDV” thing just means it’s using Long GOP MPEG-2.
Thursday, January 8th 2009 at 8:37 am
1/4″ CCDs for HD? Seriously? I thought it was 2009.
Thursday, January 8th 2009 at 11:46 am
Oh for god’s sake, they’ve reinvented the wheel again!
“Drawing from its experience in developing rack mount encoders used by major television stations, JVC developed a proprietary codec capable of providing highly efficient compression up to 35 megabits per second,”
So, it’s an MPEG-2 Long-GOP codec delivering full raster 1920×1080 in 35Mb/s, so that’d be XDCAM EX then, oh, no, wait… It’s a propietary JVC codec. This is JVC’s HDV all over again!!
Let’s see, a quick tally off the top of my head:
HDV (Sony)
HDV (JVC)
HDCAM
HDCAM SR
AVC INTRA
AVCHD (Sony)
AVCHD (Panasonic)
DVCPRO HD
DVCPRO HD (P2)
XDCAM HD
XDCAM HD422
XDCAM EX
JVC HD MPEG2
It’s bad enough that there’s so many, now JVC is creating a format that seems to have the same basic specifications as XDCAM EX, but isn’t.
Friday, January 9th 2009 at 7:54 am
If this camera will allow me to shoot video, then just drag and drop the media off of the card and right into my timeline, without a trans code or anything, then I like it.
Friday, April 24th 2009 at 12:56 am
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