HD For Indies

Press release : THOMSON CompanynewsGroup

The press release discusses the disadvantages of proprietary tape formats and decks, and the advantages of of IT based solutions. So now, they have an IT based (think of files on disks rather than tape formats) camera and recorder. Camera circa $20K based on a 2/3" CCD (that's good).

From an email from a reader (unverified but assumed accurate):

At IBC 2005, Grass Valley unveiled its new "Infinity Series" line of 2/3" 3CCD professional camcorders, VTR-like recorders/players and digital media drives that will feature internal Iomega REV PRO removable disk and Compact Flash solid state storage, plus the ability to connect to a variety of external recording media via USB 2.0 and FireWire ports.
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Both MPEG-2 (I-frame and long GOP) and JPEG2000 for HD recording (JPEG2000 [is] the standard for digital cinema video distribution).


This all sounds very good - a high quality camera, not too horribly expensive, recording onto a file based system so that data can be copied off onto inexpensive disc based media...I like it. The big question then is what file formats does it use for the recorded compressed media? Will Final Cut Pro support it?