HDV at NAB 2006

At NAB last month, the staff and contributing editors of Digital Content Producer covered the news of the show as it happened in our annual NABlog. Here's a sampling of HDV-specific coverage from Las Vegas. (Read Steve Mullen's breaking coverage of JVC's camcorder announcements here.)

Video technology editor Trevor Boyer attended NAB Post Production World and reported on Avid general manager Chas Smith's presentation on Avid's approach to editing compressed HD.

Senior editor Dan Ochiva talked to JVC's Dave Walton and wrote about the company's expanded ProHD lineup of HDV camcorders. On Tuesday he'd written about signal conversion products from Ensemble Designs that can take the analog HD signal from a JVC HDV camcorder (among others) and convert it to digital.

In his "Leitner's Mondo NAB Monday" report, contributing editor D.W. Leitner wrote about Apple's response to the challenges that editors have faced trying to import 24p HDV into Final Cut Pro. (A solution is forthcoming, but no announcements have yet been made.) He also wrote about Matrox's MXO converter box, which can take DVI output (from a FCP system's monitor, for instance) and convert it for a recorder capable of HD-SDI or analog HD input. This can smash the output bottleneck associated with HDV.

In a meeting with Thomson Grass Valley on the showfloor, Trevor Boyer spoke with Mike Wolschon, director of strategic marketing, about the company's possible future plans to produce an HDV camcorder. Check out the full NABlog for our complete report from NAB 2006