Blue -Ray

[Ernie Weingartner]

I'am using a Panny HPX 170 I've done some Blue-Ray disk , burnt with a Pioneer drive , used FCP 7 ,but the quality is just not great would a "Scarlet " be ? better , way better , or astonishing in making Blue_Ray's with it ??

[George Butterfield]

I'am using a Panny HPX 170 I've done some Blue-Ray disk , burnt with a Pioneer drive , used FCP 7 ,but the quality is just not great would a "Scarlet " be ? better , way better , or astonishing in making Blue_Ray's with it ??

The Panasonic HPX 170 is a fantastic Camera, I have one and I love it. Perfect for HD on Vimeo and Youtube. If the Scarlet is not "better" than the Panasonic HPX 170 .... "Houston, we have a problem"!

[Ernie Weingartner]

George you are right great camera for "Vimeo" "Yuotube" or watching footage on TV but as soon as it's put on disk DVD or Blue -Ray hmm "" not there "" of course I do not expect 'a la 'BBC blue planet " but how much better a "Scarlet" for DVD or Blue-Ray will be ??

[Brennan Klensch]

Scarlet, i can nearly promise would b better and here is why

Although the blu-ray format will autoatically heavily compress your edited footage from a scarlet, the footage itself should be in mich better shape to begin with, so, whatever compresses visually in the h264 format will be much more visible on your panny footage, which is sompressed already than it would be from your edited scarlet footage.


The only exception would be if you gave your panny footage to an amzing editing/finishing suite and let your sisters little brother who uses imovie edit your transcoded scarlet footage; even then though lol

[Keegan O'Brien]

*Blu-ray

[Nick Wernham]

I love my HPX 170. It's best-suited to shooting 720p as opposed to 1080p though (you lose out on things like variable frame rate by going to "full HD") and Blu-Rays are 1080p. As a result, any camera that is best when shooting at least 1080p is going to be the best match resolution-wise for Blu-Rays. Obviously there are many factors beyond resolution when it comes to image quality that must be taken into account, but it's an important consideration.