Thing will be called HyperDeck Shuttle.
With $345 announced price.
Something tells me that selling old facioned cameras like AF100 for 200% profit will be tougher and tougher.
Bad thing is that BlackMagic is famous for paper announcments, like their H.264 recorder that had been postponed for almost a year.
Good thing is that making uncompressed recorder is not so complicated as proper H.264 encoder, contrary to common beliefs spreaded by camera manufacturers.
Modular cameras are real future.
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Yes, the first HyperDeck Shuttle is not able to be upgraded to DNxHD, from what I read elsewhere. BMD had to make changes to the drive internally to accommodate DNxHD writing ability, as well as changes to the firmware. I believe it is only the Shuttle that has this problem, as the HyperDeck Studio IS able to be firmware upgraded to write DNxHD.
Although this first model's firmware is not upgradeable to Avid DNxHD
Are you sure about this?
Now that the HyperDeck Shuttle 2 is out, it looks like B&H has reduced the price on the original to $250 while supplies last. Although this first model's firmware is not upgradeable to Avid DNxHD, it can still serve as a cheap HDMI-to-SDI converter.
I don't believe for a second chroma subsampling is performed by a dedicated ROM chip. It's all software, run by the image processor. Though likely more complicated than simple variable swap, and may need rewriting a lot of the function to achieve it, whether out to the codec, or over HDMI.
4:2:2 is only 1 and 1/3rd times more information to process (though it may not necessarily have greater processor load, depending on where and how things are done, and may only need 1.33x more bus bandwidth than 4:2:0, not a problem over HDMI), than 4:2:0. But the image processor is certainly fast enough to handle that much more load, especially considering, 30p is 1.25x more in everything, than 23.976p.
Looks nice! Might get it to use with my AF100. At that price I bet it doesn't remove pulldown tho.
I know of 5D2RGB. There are quite severe gaps in the histogram (i.e. missing color information) on a 422 timeline, even with chroma interpolation. The 8bit signal doesn't phase me so much (with a 10bit codec).
Oh well. I suppose having DNxHD at the ready on set is worth the price of admission, even for 8bit 420.
It's 4:2:0 8-bit, and it is extremely unlikely we will ever get 4:2:2 out of it.
Best I've seen is intelligent up scaling from 4:2:0 to 4:2:2 using 5DtoRGB which outputs ProRes 422 (it can do 4444 too). It adds a step to the workflow, but I personally think it is worth it.
I dont own the camera (yet), can someone confirm that GH2/PAL with latest stock firmware outputs 422 chroma? And if not, will the upcoming patch address this at all?
I've had some experience with color correcting 422 sources vs 420 and it holds up so much better! Having DNxHD 185X with no transcoding at such a low entry price would be beyond awesome.
Choice between compressed and uncompressed is what was holding me back, as I do want uncompressed for a couple things, but many times I do want to record compressed.. now if you could shoot compressed with a regular sata hard drive (2.5") that'd be nice. In fact I wonder if plugging in one would actually work, it's still over the SATA bus and, so reality it should given the same file system.. if it is able to power it.
In any case, an inexpensive (few grand) 4:4:4 HDMI recorder is coming, by cinemartin. Sony have got their 4:4:4 HDMI output firmware upgrade.. recorder is both compressed and uncompressed, so it's a good bit of future proofing there.
Also the cinemartin is "OPEN CODEC Arquitecture Allows to use third party codecs. Software will allow developers to make plugins, widgets and more.."
Which is great.
In fact, it is just software update free for owners on original bundle :-)
But good news is that it now records in Avid DNxHD compressed format making thing much more useful.
Just Realesed HyperDeck Shuttle 2 with Avid DNxHD support.
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