Does EDIUS 4.5 support the Sony PMW-EX1?

[LV_DVC]

Does EDIUS 4.5 support the Sony PMW-EX1's HQ mode?

That's 1920x1080 at 50i/60i and 24p/25p/30p?

And, 1280x720 at 24p/25p/30p/50p/60p?

If not, when will it?

[STORMDAVE]

It's been stated that it will support it in 4.6, which is coming out early 2008. Some have seen it in action at a recent trade show.

Since Edius supports Full HD (1920x1080) I don't see why it wouldn't support all the specs that the camera shoots in.

[tingsern]

I would be concerned about the processing (CPU) needed to digest 1920x1080 HD - I don't know if some of the filters might choke in real time.

[Martin_Gleeson]

Since Edius supports Full HD (1920x1080) I don't see why it wouldn't support all the specs that the camera shoots in.

I didn't think Edius supported this in PAL mode?

[GrassValley_KH]

EDIUS 4.6 includes presets for 1920x1080 @ 59.94i, 50i and 24p

[kwshaw1]

EDIUS 4.6 includes presets for 1920x1080 @ 59.94i, 50i and 24p

Any idea whether that will handle footage from the Convergent XDR recorder, with options including 1080p MPEG2 I-frame at 160 Mbps? This is a third-party accessory which could be connected to the HD-SDI outputs on the EX1 for some really high-quality HD footage:

http://www.convergent-design.com/downloads/Flash%20XDR.pdf

[GrassValley_KH]

Without a sample clip, it's hard to tell - I do know that the MXF handling with MPEG-2 data is getting a few little additions, but whether it'll extend to the format used with this product, I'm not sure.

[shueardm]

EDIUS 4.6 includes presets for 1920x1080 @ 59.94i, 50i and 24p

The camera doesn't record at 1920x1080 50i or 59.94i

[STORMDAVE]

The camera doesn't record at 1920x1080 50i or 59.94i

It does:

Three 1920×1080 effective 1/2-inch “Exmor” CMOS chips, rated at 1000+ resolution lines.
Undercrank/Overcrank: 1080P from 1 to 30 fps, 1 to 60 fps in 720P mode.
Frame rates: 1920 x 1080/59.94i, 29.97P, 23.98P, 1280 x 720/59.94P, 29.97P, 23.98P, also a 1440 x 1080/59.94i SP mode.
PAL setting HQ mode: 1920 x 1080/50i, 25P, 1280 x 720/50P, 25P and 1440 x 1080/50i SP mode.

[shueardm]

oh, thought it only did interlaced in HDV mode.

[STORMDAVE]

Yeah it has an HQ mode at 35mbps like the bigger XDCAM HD cameras.

It's still Long GOP MPEG2...

[kwshaw1]

Yeah it has an HQ mode at 35mbps like the bigger XDCAM HD cameras. It's still Long GOP MPEG2...

It would have been nice if they'd included a 50 Mbps recording option, but even at 35 Mbps the footage should look great - and you can actually distribute the results at that quality using Blu-ray discs. Plus if you get the Convergent recorder I mentioned above you could record MPEG2 I-frame at 160 Mbps, which should be about as good as any camera can do without larger sensors.

This camera will be a good test of the trade-offs between a high-resolution sensor with moderate bandwidth recording versus the low-res sensor in the HVX200 using high-bandwidth recording.

[STORMDAVE]

It also has HD-SDI...a nice addition.

Not sure if the color space is 4:2:2 for the HQ mode. I doubt it is...

[shueardm]

It's 4:2:0

HD-SDI transfer using 24p will be captured at 59.94i with pulldown. The question though is whether the reverse pulldown export works well. In the ProCoder forum a guy said he tried it with ProCoder 3 and lost a few frames at the beginning

[STORMDAVE]

It's 4:2:0

Eeek!

I'll wait for Panasonic to drop some competition against this camera with the AVC-Intra codec @ 4:2:2 Full HD.