HD For Indies

OK, so why no posts for a couple of days? Let's see:

-record heat in Austin - old records beat by 7 or more degrees, new records every day for the last WEEK
-108 on Sunday
-no air conditioning since Sunday
-IRS has mistakenly decided I owe them money, have to jump through hoops to show that it doesn't owe taxes for a period in which that business had no income
-17 year old cat goes missing, in 100+ degree heat, moving back from place-other-than-home

Oh, and then on top of all that, the part you guys care about - we have been working on a project to color correct a 15 minute short shot in HDV at 1080i60 using Final Touch HD. How's it going? Colorist's done coloring and I'm dickering with some XML issues to get all the rendered stuff back into Final Cut exactly right. The results look great, I'm feeling better about HDV's ability to accept moderately aggressive color correction.

My gut still says that as a format, regardless of camera of origination, HDV doesn't hold up to HDCAM (as expected), but that it is doing better than I thought it would. HDV is definitely the everyman's HD in much the same way that DV is the everyman's SD, but that you need bigger/better/faster everything to handle it in an equivalent fashion.

OK, gotta blaze....

-mike

UPDATE - Cat found, AC fixed, IRS hordes pushed back across the Rubicon, client snargle managed.

It's all about problem solving.

: )