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Tapeless Digital Suite
High Technology Video (HTV) has
added a tapeless digital-cinema suite to
its facility. The tapeless color-correction
environment is designed to give the
colorist the ultimate control for E-cinema
access to both Philips
Spirit and Cintel C-Reality telecines.

transfers, with

At the heart of HTV's

new

suite is

CineDeck 21st

Century software, which
allows technicians to manipulate the
stored data in a nonlinear, parallel
manner. The CineDeck system manipu¬
lates filman

or

video-based material into

HTV's

predominant focus is
mastering feature films and television
shows for domestic and international

distribution, but HTV also performs elec¬

watts in "save rec"

The camcorder

tronic restoration of

images, as well as
various types of duplication and audio
work. The company is the only place in
the world that

can

transfer 70mm and

mode, which

ensures

greater battery life, cooler operation, and
fanless, quiet operation.
comes

standard

with easy menu browsing and setup via
viewfinder or external monitor character

readouts. When

65/70mm in real time in both high- and

desired

standard-definition.

advanced

High Technology Video, Inc.,
(323) 969-8822, fax (323) 969-8860,
e-mail: sales@htvinc.net, Web site:

very

users

"look,"
color

wish to achieve

the

a

AJ-HDC27A's

correction

scheme

utilizes

a 12-pole color matrix that allows
specific colors to be set, especially
when critical color matching is vital.

www.htvinc.net.

uncompressed high-definition or stan¬

dard-definition

server

Panasonic's

environment. The

system is combined with an advanced,
multi-server storage area network. The
final product can be rendered out to
different formats at once. CineDeck

Higher Definition

Panasonic Broadcast & Television

performs color-correction and DRS (digi¬
and noise
instead of
the traditional serial or linear approach. It
also performs aspect-ratio conversions
and up-and-down conversions, as well

Company has introduced
high-definition products,
including the AJ-HDC27A, the world's
first digital camera/recorder to acquire
720-line, 60-frame progressive scan HD
images.
Offering the same compact size,
light weight and low power consumption
as
a
typical standard definition

motion-control, 3:2 cadence

camcorder, the AJ-HDC27A's three W IT

tal restoration services) grain
reduction in a parallel manner,

as

on-chip lens system,
providing high sensitivity of f10 at 2000
lux and excellent smear immunity.
By recording on DVCPRO HD's
high-density Va" tape, the AJ-HDC27A
provides 46 minutes of high-quality HD
images with 720p effective scanning
lines onto a single compact cassette at a
100Mbps video recording rate. The
camcorder's 16-bit Digital
Signal
Processing circuitry delivers outstanding
picture quality while assuring signal
performance stability regardless of
temperature changes, aging or vibration.
Thanks to its ultra-compact
recording mechanism, the AJ-HDC27A
weighs only 9.5 pounds, and with all
accessory components mounted, tips the
scales at a mere 15.4 pounds. Power
consumption is low at approximately 32
an

vector

conversions and

color-space conversion.

Systems

several

new

CCDs feature 1280

x

720 effective

pixel

The camcorder has

array of
capabilities, including four
user-designed Assignable Scene File set¬
ups, one user standard-reference file,
and a removable Secure Digital and
scene

an

file

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