>
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:03:04 -0500
> From: b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es>
> Subject: Re: Hardware Reccomendations
>
> > On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:55 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
> >> Most pros use tape.
> >
> > Probably true, because most of them bought their gear
> years ago.
>
> Nope. New camcorders have tape. SD cards are good too, but
> easy to lose,
> and expensive compared to tape. Some have both tape and SD.
> Direct to
> DVD is stupid [Sony again?], and hard drives are too
> limited.
>
If you are talking about shooting on video, some of
those arguments might be valid, High def on a Red or P2 cards on a Panasonic
however are competing with Film budgets.
If time is money, then the fact that you can import footage
in faster than real time is gold. If the premise is that there is enough
footage to require more than a couple of tapes, then that becomes hours to
ingest the footage into the editing system.
The weak part of the tapeless system is that leaves open how to archive the
footage. You transfer the footage from the memory cards to the hard drive, but
then what? The memory cards get wiped and reused but then that leaves the
footage... on a hard drive? The memory cards are better for workflow, but at
some point I would want the footage stored on tape for long term.
Rocky
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