Cheap HiDef Digital Capture?

Here is your solution for HD capture It lets you capture in many formats, compressed and uncompressed and only costs U$2000 Also Panasonic has a new HD camera body (no recorder)that supports 1920 x 1080 at U$35,000. If you capture with it and record though Declink card in Jpeg format it will go really cheap.

@Morsa Thanks a lot, that is really a good solution, and unless anybody has anything else to add I think that just about answers my original question. Your solution requires a G5 but I don't have a PC with PCI-X, so would probably have to buy a new computer anyway. I also read at their site that they are working on Windows driver support, so maybe they'll have them by the time I need one. I couldn't find what data rate the card was able to compress in jpeg, do you happen to know?? Do you know if the Jpeg capture is also 10 bit? I guess it is a hardware compression?? I'll try to get in touch via e-mail with one of their reps.Once again, thanks for the tip! Re: acquisition, that $35,000 is still out of my ballpark, I don't think I'll have much more than $10 maybe 15k to throw around. Any ideas? But I guess this is a topic for a new thread.."cheap" HD acquisition. t_2

What is the standard, I believe, out here in LA is to take your HD masters to a posthouse and have them downsample it to a DV tape format of your choice (MiniDV would probably be cheapest). Then edit offline in DV, and take your EDL to the posthouse and have them reconstruct a final print from your HD masters.

Well I guess is the standard all over the world:)