[MacDV] 16:9 vs 4:3

[Brett Conlon]

I WISH!!!!  Though it's a little bulky to take on family trips....  ;-) 
Apparently Sony are going to work on that and make it a smaller camera in 
the future... possibly to capture more of the richer side of the consumer 
market.

No I have the Panasonic GS400 which purports to capture in true 16:9 
cinema mode (apparently there are more pixels on the CCD to capture in 
16:9). Though I do remember reading somewhere that true 16:9 is a larger 
pixel count than the Panasonic captures in. Either way I'm still happy 
with what I've seen from the GS400 so far. The only down side on this 
camera is that the image in the LCD is squeezed narrow (doesn't appear as 
letterbox) but it's not too bad when you get used to it.

Coj




Kunga <Kunga at FutureMedia.org>

Do you have the new Sony HDR-FX1 Cojcolds?

k

On Feb 9, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Brett Conlon wrote:

>
>
> 3rd time's a charm....  8-)
>
> I've been shooting in 16:9 recently (trying to look to the future) and 
> I'd love to know what kind of impact it will have on my projects.
>
> For example, approximately how much larger will a 30 min DV capture 
> file to the Mac be compared with a 30 min 4:3 capture file?
>
> In regards to my earlier questions about authoring high quality DVD's, 
> will having 16:9 footage mean I will have to reduce the length of a 
> DVD project to keep the quality up?
>
> Example:
> 4:3 single layer DVD = 1hr
> 16:9 single layer DVD = x mins
>
> Ta muchly,
>
> Cojcolds

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