JVC will soon introduce a new camcorder called GR-HD1 (camcorderinfo.com announcement and review, abcdv.com announcement) that is announced as the world’s first consumer HD camcorder to offer 750 line resolution progressive video, 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, at 30 frames per second, recording MPEG2 video to MiniDV tape.
One problem I got with the announcement and article above is that they say current video editing software is unable to handle the HD recording format. Final Cut Pro anyone?
Wonder if it’s possible to hack the camera and record directly to a disk array, like clusters of 4×160 GB IDE RAID, in a less mangled format than MPEG-2. I’m thinking 10-bit log… But that also rise the question what is the dynamic range possible to record with the camera ?
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