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I recently traveled to Chicago to shoot a music video on an Sony PMW-EX1 camera. Much of the shooting was on greenscreen so I brought along the nanoFlash from Convergent Design to increase the quality of my recording. While the EX1 records excellent quality video, I really needed the bitrate and color sampling improvements that the nanoFlash offers. I shot both to the EX1 in XDCAM EX at 35Mbps, and to the nanoFlash in XDCAM 422 at 160Mbps. The quality difference between the two versions was significant, and I found that the nanoFlash footage was very easy to key. Watch the video to see my review of the nanoFlash, and the difference between the XDCAM EX footage and what the nanoFlash recorded.

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  • Bram1982 4 days ago
    Thnx for the shootout! However, while there are indeed differences (when you view side by side at 200% and really know what to look for - pixelpeeping) this quality increase is really not THAT significant at all.

    The differences in 'stairstepping' around edges is hardly noticable, even in this worst case scenario where you have the black background, red shirt and look at 200%!

    Sometimes (like here) technical details are exaggerated (Look mum, if I press and hold this button, turn my camera up while running and select frame 374...) You get the point... It's forgotten how this 'problem' translates into real movies, music clips etc. (if being a problem at all in the first place!) I mean, we're not making movies for the technical guys at ILM

    And if there is a problem with the EX1 codec which the Nano fixes, it would be the motion artifacts on specific scene's (water, leaves that move because of wind and pans in other shots with very fine detail...) This keying example however just doesn't look like that 'significant' problem that needs fixing. At least not for 3000 dollars :)
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