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Originally Posted by Claus Bier
Hi, I'm the new guy here.
I have been drooling over the HD7 for a couple of weeks now - most of all, over the manual possibilities with that rig.
The other camera I'm looking into is the Sony A1U. I simply love the simplicity of tape. Therefore, I am a bit skeptical about the HD7, though the price is hot (even with an XLR adaptor and a "real" mic it is still cheaper than the A1U)
There's a lot of ruckus about importing the footage into Final Cut. If I shoot in CBR, is the capture process as simple as connecting my Firewire and start capturing the stream? Is there any deck control via Firewire?
How much disk space do you need for archiving (another thing that makes me cling to tapes), let's say, 1 hour of footage?
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Archiving footage is pretty simple...drag/drop. 60GB = 5 hours when recorded in CBR. As for the tape vs hard drive... Well, for me I simply find more pros with the hard drive. Easy as pie to make multiple archives of it. When starting fresh with a 60GB hard drive, I can go 5 straight hours recording, uninterrupted. Tape heads can get dirty effecting your end result and tapes can get eaten. Mind you, hard drives can fail/crash. The only pro I can see for tape is that dropping it won't result in possibly damaged/lost material like in a hard drive. Oh, another pro is that you can possibly go shoot at a higher altitude with tape.
For me the real tape killer is in the archiving of the raw footage. 1 hour of footage archived to tape takes, well, 1 hour. No way to record to tape faster than real time!