Plenty of pros use Panasonic. The thought was that hi def digital
instead of film would allow them to produce a quality product
with fewer crew members. What they are discovering
is that they require a dedicated crew member with training
to handle the P2 cards, in the same way that a film crew
would have a dedicated Film Loader. The HVX200 has two
hot swappable card slots so you can shoot continuously
and your card handler can be moving the footage onto
media drives for evaluation and editing. You can load
in faster than real time, you can begin working with the
footage with minimum turn around time, and the footage is
in high def resolutions. The Panasonics have been the
darlings of indie and pro production for the last 5 years.
All that is changing with the Red One, though.
It eats 'Hi Def' cameras for breakfast.
Rocky
> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:56:49 -0400
> From: b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es>
> Subject: Re: New Gear Question Regrading USB 3
>
> Not many pros use Panasonic videocams. They're more
> likely to use Canon
> or [ugh] Sony. Canon continues to use DV tape and Firewire
> ports, as do
> Sony and Panasonic. Pros do not use nonremovable media,
> unless they can
> switch cameras instead of switching tapes or cards. On site
> or on the
> road, it's not likely that pros would carry more than
> two cams.
>
> FireWire is significantly faster than USB2 in real time by
> up to 400%,
> but usually around 200%, since data can move in both
> directions
> simultaneously with FW, but only one way with USB2.
> Firewire transfers
> data more or less independently while USB relies on a
> processor. Unless
> USB3 is 2-4X faster than USB2, it's still slower than
> FW400, and much
> slower than FW800, and it's still one-way. USB 3 might
> be good for
> backup drives, but not for video.
>
> Avoid videocams with a hard drive or nonrewritable discs.
> Only use
> removable rewritable media--for SD/CF, nothing smaller than
> at least
> 16GB, or mini DV tapes. Otherwise your media will run out
> before you're
> done making videos. I'm glad mine didn't run out
> this weekend!
>
> Betty
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