By Staff, March 23, 2006
CineForm, Inc. and Wafian Corporation announced acquisition and editing support for Canon's XL H1 HD camcorder, including all of its special operating modes and features such as 24Frame and 30Frame. Further, CineForm and Wafian have collaborated to optimize Wafian's HR-1 for direct-to-disk recording of 24F/30F material from the HD-SDI output of the XL H1.
Canon's XL H1 camcorder provides numerous features, including its 1440 x 1080 native HD CCDs and 24F mode, which provides a 24 frame-per-second 1080 signal. This frame rate along with a 1/48 th second shutter speed, perfectly matches film movie camera settings. The camcorder can write the 24F signal to HDV tape, and also transmits recorded information directly through an HD-SDI connection, presented as a 60i signal that includes pulldown
. When output through an HD-SDI connection, the 24F signal bypasses internal HDV compression and is delivered as a traditional 1920 x 1080 YUV 4:2:2 60i signal for use by external equipment.
Special signal analysis software developed by CineForm allows the real-time identification and elimination of redundant fields from the HD-SDI signal to recover the original 24-frame sequence which is then recorded direct-to-disk as 10-bit CineForm Intermediate files on the Wafian HR-1 recorder. After signal acquisition, CineForm's Prospect HD editing software offers a real-time, multi-stream, 10-bit editing environment using Adobe Premiere Pro software. For those individuals acquiring XL H1 material on HDV format, CineForm's Aspect HD plug-in offers a similar real-time editing environment using Adobe Premiere Pro, while Connect HD supports Sony Vegas.
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