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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Octorox said:
adywan said:

i just realised that it is the HG-20 and not the 10 model that i tested out. the 10 doesn't film in 1920x1080p but 1440x1080 instead. i just rang up the shop that i tested it at and although their website lists the 10 model they assure me that its the 20 and they no longer stock the 10.

This is the lowest price i've been able to find for the Uk version

http://www.camerabox.co.uk/product.asp?ProductID=6388&gclid=CLGb6ZSf4ZgCFQHHGgodIGfYdQ

Its just over £100 more in the shop i tested it at but i'm still a couple of hundred quid off getting this baby.

I've been checking out some of the HD videos shot with this camera on youtube. This is definitely the camera to get.

Here's a review that might be helpful

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Canon-Vixia-HG20-Camcorder-Review-35510/Performance.htm

And I still have to recommend the tape-based HV30 of the hard drive based HG20. Hard Drives are a hassle to work with. Of you can even get the AVCHD footage into your editor render times will be excruciating. HDV is much more time tested. Also 1440x1080 vs. 1920x1080 doesn't really make much of a difference. One is anamorphic and one isn't. 24p/25p is important though

Anamorphism has nothing to do with this. 1440X1080 vs 1920x1080 is a case of pixel aspect ratio. (1.33:1 in the case of HDV). 

Aside from the xDcam EX PMW-EX1 and EX3, few low end (under $50,000) camcorder offers true 1920x1080 pixel resolution. Even HDCAM (Not HDCAM SR, but the lower end ones) use 1440X1080. To understand it without going into highly technical terms, these cameras use rectangular pixels for their horizontal resolution so they have 1440 of them instead of 1920 of them. The sensors are then shifted by a fraction of a pixel in relation to each other to achieve a higher resolution. If you transfer it to a high end production codec such as Apple ProRES-422  or Avid Dnx at 1920X1080 they will be exactly the same size, just use a more, smaller pixels to fill in the frame horizontally.

Again, please understand that this is not the camera's resolution, but the codec's image playback size. Most cameras have much less resolving power than 1440X1080 (for example the native resolution of Panasonic HVX200 imaging CCD's is 960x540 while the Sony xDcam EX PMW-EX1 is 1920x1080. Yet on paper, they are both advertised as "1080p" capable.

 

 

 

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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Hi, I created this account just to ask you something. I just saw your edition of the first Star Wars and seeing that you are redoing the second one, I really have to ask if something would be possible for you to modify.

It is something that has always bugged me about the movie since I saw it in 1980 in theaters and every time I saw it on videos after. Maybe you have addressed it already, I didn't know how I could find it in the 108 pages here.

When the rebels escape from the snow planet at the beginning, you have that huge canon fire a gigantic laser bolt at the imperial ship coming in on them (you have it pictured a few posts back). You expect something awesome to happen but all you see is a bunch of electric-like bolts surrounding the ship's model and it drifts away. I mean, I understand that back then they needed to keep that huge model intact for many more shots and that was an economical way of doing things but it just looks awful and cheap. It's something that Richard Edlund did on many gigs.

 

Thanks