4000pro

[ShadowVision]

I've been working with my new 4000 Pro and ran in some 40 minutes of HDV footage shot on my Sony 1000u using a HC9 for a deck.

There were problems with rewind, but it seemed to work after a couple of tries. Rendering was a little of a mystery at first then it popped in place. I should have permitted the machine to catch up.

The footage looked good on my new cheap HD monitor (I got a 26 inch at Best Buy) and effects render fast. For example, I took 15 seconds of 1080i footage and did a special in movie mode. Then I treated the image by crushing the blacks with an extreme 40% increase in contrast and some adjustment to gamma. The render was much faster than the AVIO. I was not using Smart Render (I'm not sure it is available, and will check). The smart rendering got me in trouble occasionally on my AVIO because I'd get way ahead and the system would just slow to a crawl.

As you guys might know from my postings, I like the cinegamma type settings that I got with my DVX in 24p. After treating the image with the 4000 pro and watching the playback, I think the result is very progressive feeling and the treatment cinema-like. I'm banking that I can shoot my latest feature in interlaced 1080 and pass it off as progressive (not lying of course, just fooling the average viewer).

The Canon camera that started this thread will shoot in 60i, of course, and I've heard it will work fine with the 4000 Pro in interlaced. Of course, I said that above.

[MichaelD]

Re: 4000pro
by erictom on Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:19 pm

The Bogart software on the S4KPro has a maximum of only 2G per written file. If you have a longer program, it will stop at that junction and brings you back to the menu (on a PS3)

Out of interest the latest PS3 software upgrade allows it to play these '2G' files continuously - although some have reported a little shimmer as it swops to the next file during playback.