Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 06:25 -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Tue, August 7, 2012 2:37 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> > For audio we can buy some professional gear and use it with some
> > semi-pro and consumer gear, just for fun.
> > For video some might be able to do a similar mix for video gear, but at
> > least I suspect that those people must work semi-pro or they simply must
> > be rich.
> >
> > However, quality seems to increase and prices seem to decrease.
> >
> > Interesting, but also frustrating, since I have got no hope to get a
> > "home video studio" ever in my life, even not with muuuuuuuuch lower
> > quality.
> 
> You set me thinking. In the early 80s I worked in video at a TV station.
> Our studio cameras were $150000USD. about the price of a house at the
> time. The new technology (more digital circuitry but still plumbicon
> tubes) was only 80k. For reference The cost of a row house/townhouse is
> now over 400k. A lot of video studios use stuff in the 20K range any more.
> The prices have come down. But the starting point was high. (BTW I was
> just talking camera, recording at the time was tape. 1 inch open reel in
> house, 3/4inch umatic on the road) Beta or VHS was still consumer stuff.

I remember similar prices for the Sony Betacam, 150000DM.
Betamax already was pro in the beginning 80s, but only Umatic high-band
was pro too. I started my "carrier" in the 80s, at the video studio of
the University Essen in the age of 17/18 (I thought I was 16/17, but I
was mistaken). At that time the first Sony Betacam was introduced.

I attache photos from that time. I'm the one at the Bosch camera, I
wonder about my short hair, usually I had and I have long hair.

> The quality just wasn't there. We were still using 2inch machines in on
> air (4 of them).
> 
> Most amateur video uses a still camera in video mode. The video goes
> direct to chip. editing takes place later. I don't find SW to handle 3 or
> more input streams and do on the fly switching. (I think we used closer to
> 7 or 8 streams... though our switchers had more.. they had access to every
> stream in the building) Video streams don't have to be synced and timed
> any more, frame store can fix that.
> 
> Audio was a whole separate chain.

No sync for video does work? At home I don't have sync for my RME audio
card and an ADAT device, when syncing by ADAT only. I still don't have a
wordclock thingy for my RME card. The ADAT device has got an additional
wordclock connector.

I try to avoid to have un-synced devices when ever possible.

Regards,
Ralf
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