“Apple rocked NAB with major announcements and cheering crowds in a packed 2,000-plus press conference where they announced strategic alliances with Panasonic, Thomson Grass Valley and BBC Technology and new products including Final Cut Pro HD, Motion, Xsan, DVD Studio Pro 3 and Shake 3.5 as well as more powerful new PowerBook G4s,” Post Magazine reports.
“‘We really want to nail HD to the wall,’ said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of applications marketing to the enthusiastic crowd. Apple’s latest upgrade to their popular editing application now includes native support for uncompressed DVCPRO HD and allows previewing of SD and HD footage directly on an Apple Cinema Display,” Post Magazine reports.
“Apple hopes that the incorporation of Panasonic’s VariCam native DV-HD codec into Final Cut Pro HD will revolutionize the HD production pipeline. ‘The VariCam has taken the industry by storm,’ said Stuart English, vice president of marketing for Panasonic Broadcast USA. ‘Outside of Hollywood the VariCam has virtually taken over Super 16 production,’ he continued. English proudly held up to the crowd the world’s smallest HD FireWire capable recorder the AJ-HD1200A DVCPRO HD VTR. The crowd cheered when English revealed the price point of $25,000 for the compact deck,’ Post Magazine reports.
“Strategic partner Thomson is integrating Final Cut Pro HD software into their popular Grass Valley Digital news production pipeline by incorporation of their Grass Valley Broadcast Plug-In and Grass Valley Professional Plug-In software modules and connectivity to their Grass Valley Open SAN system. The Apple and Thompson team up is targeting the fast paced world of TV news production a potential 400 million dollar market,” Post Magazine reports. “BBC Technology is integrating Final Cut Pro HD into their Colledia production system with the ultimate goal of becoming a fully tapeless facility in the future, said Paul Cheesbrough head of Technology for production, BBC. Cheesbrough cited Final Cut Pro HD’s support of open standards such as XML and AAF as crucial to this decision. This workflow, he said, will enable greater creativity, the efficient sharing of content across multiple platforms and reduce costs.”
Full article here.
I have always wanted a AJ-HD1200A DVCPRO HD VTR. I just have trouble remembering the name so that I can ask for one at the store.
ABQ Peter – rofl
ABQ Peter,
It’s not the AJ-HD1200A DVCPRO HD VTR you want, it’s the AJ-HD1300A DVCPRO HD VTR.
It supports HDv4.05TUY, not HDv4.04TUY, which is what you want.
hey man…we busted our asses thinking of a cool title..
but it was worth it.. and now we’re ‘taking the industry by storm.’
AJ-HD1200A DVCPRO HD VTR combines elegance and power that you would expect from Panasonic..
… okay we played networked GBA for a couple weeks and then came up with the name at the last minute.
I would be applauding too if I could afford a $25,00 video recorder!
“I would be applauding too if I could afford a $25,00 video recorder!”
Well this probably isn’t something you’d use just to catch the new episodes of “Sopranos.” That’d be like buying a multi hundred dollar case for your iPod…
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Ooh, that makes so much sense now.
I was going to get a AJ-HD1200A DVCPRO HD VTR, but as I would have to park it in the bike rank across the street, my insurance company quoted me �1200 a year fully-comp. Shame, I’ve heard they pull 0-60 in 3 seconds, and can do stonking wheelies.
Schmucks – this is pretty revolutionary. And $25000 (�15000) is piss all when you consider that you no longer need an uncompressed video card, RAID or seperate video monitor. OK, so the camera is still �65000 and lenses cost tens of thousands of �, but you rent these things, you don’t buy. That’s the way the film industry works.
They have one on display for people to try out at Radio Shack..