Matrox $450 hardware for upscaling sd footage / hdmi in and out is usable?
I have a lot of Sd footage (DV 720x576) footage as I used to work with professional film 10 years ago or so. I would love to be able to upscale the footage to HD (1080) in a good way both quality wise and not to spend huge amounts of money on extra hardware. It seems Matrox came about reccently with some good hardware to do this. Does anyone have any personal experience with this product or any advice?
It is the: "Matrox Mx02 Mini":
http://www.matrox.com/video/media/pdf/products/mxo2mini/en_Matrox_MXO2Mini.pdf
The camera uses the Apple HDV codec. It looks good, and plays black well in Final Cut. It offers a pretty good variety of recording options 720, 1080, 30p, 60p, etc.
The XDCAM recording, however, has not been as trouble free. I recorded some footage using the XDCAM mode, and I could not get it to play back in an editing system using Adobe Premiere CS3. We tried everything and nothing seemed to work. Then we got our hands on a Sony EX1 and had no problems bringing in the footage and it looked great.
I think part of the issue was that the JVC camera uses some type of wrapper to emulate the XDCAM footage, and is not true XDCAM.
The other thing that annoyed me about the whole "XDCAM" on the JVC is that I was told the only way to record in the XDCAM format was to buy a $500 SxS adapter. Then we could record on either the SxS card OR the SD card. Now just a couple months later, JVC comes out and says that they have a firmware update that eliminates the need for the SxS adapter! That did not make me happy! I am hoping that JVC will make things right by allowing me to return the adapter, or at least provide some type of credit towards my next purchase, but I doubt it.
Of course overall I am happy with the camera, but I would not buy it if you plan on relying on the XDCAM feature.
Hope that helps
Ken
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