My instinct is to agree with you, but in a spirit of correct spending of the company budget, I'm looking at the alternatives.
Raymond, the footage you sent that you said is "at the highest possible quality setting", how many minutes per GB can you record at that setting? The reviews also talk about battery life with the Xactis being only about an hour. Is it possible to run them off wall current while recording? An hour will not be long enough for most of what we're doing, and having to fiddle with batteries during a talk would be a definite turnoff. On Dec 10, 2007 9:26 PM, Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast? < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm always very biased towards tapes ... Less compression than flash/DVD > > camcorders, easier to archive footage than hard disks, cheaper media > than DVD camcorders, easy to trade footage, fewer strange file formats > to confound your editing software. > > A tape camcorder can be converted to a hard disk camcorder using a 3rd > party addon (hard disk or software+laptop), which cuts out the capture > process everyone hates in tape-based workflow. > > I recently shot four hours of footage at a Jonathan Coulton concert to > send to Yahoo News on miniDV. FedEx was the best way to get it from GA > to CA. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes > :) > -- > Brian Richardson > - http://whatthecast.com > - http://siliconchef.com > - http://dragoncontv.com > - http://www.3chip.com > > -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living & travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
