Venkat's handpicked articles and websites :

1. Judder and Smear - published in March 2005 edition High Definition Magazine
                    Why does HD judder so much more than film? And why does HD appear to judder more when viewed on on a crt monitor than when recorded to film and viewed at the cinema? How does progressive scan help a video camera picture look like film?

2. What is High Definition and what isn't?
                     hd24.com - High definition is a term that is used to describe everything from monitors and cameras to recording devices lenses and post production equipment.Michael Brennan has a wide range of HD shorts and trailers and reels that have been transferred from Hd to 35mm film.

3. High Definition Revolution
                      History of HD , 24P brings the best of the film and high resolution digital video worlds together. It has the excellent qualities associated with film, but also offers the ease of use, consistency of picture and sound quality, and the control associated with digital video- nyfa.com

4. Edit HDV on Final Cut Pro
                    With the desire to help make high definition production accessible to independent filmmakers of all budgets, their first self-titled product offering, launched at NAB 2004, allows users to edit HDV in Final Cut Pro.- lumierehd.com

5.Native HDV on Final Cut Pro 5 DV workflow for HD footage ? - Charlie White
                    Filmmaking.com has this article about workflow in fcp for Hd footage.

6. Digital Cinema Report
                    Digital Cinema Report is an online source available 24/7 that provides an in-depth and informed global perspective on all of the incredible business and technology changes that are currently taking place in every phase of the entire moviemaking and exhibition process

7. Digital Cinema Society
                    “Knowledge On Demand” now includes presentations of new equipment like the HDV & P2 Cameras, and panel discussions on subjects such as HD Desktop Editing, Look Management, The Role of the Digital Imaging Technician, Sound Recording for Digital Image Capture, Panavision's Genesis, 4K Production Storage Solutions, Metadata, a tour of Dalsa, What's New From NAB, and excerpts from our documentary, Digital Cinema Solutions.

8. Digital cinema today
                     DCinemaToday.com is focused on the use of digital technology in cinema exhibition, specifically the use of digital projection and digital sound in commercial movie theatres.

9. What is HDV? - Scott Thomas
                  highdef.org is a very nice site to learn. HDV is a new recording format that allows for High Definition (HD) footage to be recorded onto standard MiniDV cassettes. Instead of using DV compression, it uses “Long GOP MPEG2” which allows for the higher data compression that is needed to fit HDTV footage onto the same tape at the same data rates.

10.Texas Highdef
                     This site is an inspiration.Ian Ellis shares his extensive knowledge in the field of high definition.

11.Introduction to Digital Cinema - Michael Karagosian
                      BRAINTRUSTdv is more concerned with the history of video technology than with the latest development; more concerned with aesthetic debates than with technical specifications; more concerned with articulate arguments than with terse weblog exchanges.

12.FresHDV Resources -
                    FresHDV strives to deliver the freshest, most crisp and crunchy news and views on the issues and tools that affect the creative professionals in the film, video, and production industries. Our writers are immersed in this industry. We live, eat and breathe this stuff. This is our profession, our love, our life.

13.Panasonic AG-HVX200 World's First HD Camcorder
                     letsgodigital.org is the site to go for camera reviews - AG-HVX200, the world's first 1080i/720p/480i multi-format camcorder. Offering flexibility and versatility never before available to video professionals, the Panasonic AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2 hand-held camcorder provides 1080i and 720p recording with the production-proven image quality of 100 Mbps DVCPRO HD.

14.HD camera Rentals
                    hd-cinema.com Get an idea about the cost involved to rent a a Professional Hd camera.

15.CinemaTech
                     Lots of information in this blog .CinemaTech focuses on how new technologies are changing cinema - the way movies get made, discovered, marketed, distributed, shown, and seen.

16.High Definition Video for Independent Filmmakers
                    hdforindies.com - Mike Curtis has so much to write.It will take days to go through this site.Detailed information on everything "HD".I am surpraised by such professional brains.

17.Panasonic's AJ-HDC27 VariCam
                   Panasonic's AJ-HDC27 VariCam replicates many of the key features of film-based image acquisition, including 24-frame progressive scan images, time lapse recording, and a wide range of variable frame rates (4-fps to 60-fps in single-frame increments) for “overcranked” and “undercranked” off-speed in-camera effects. The AJ-HDC27 VariCam also features CineGamma™ software that permits Panasonic's HD Cinema™ camera systems to more closely match the latitude of film stocks.

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