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John Richard · October 21st, 2008, 01:51 PM

Scott:

Some cost & time advantages to consider with the XDR / Sony XDCAMHD 4:2:2 ...

1. Expensive VTR deck not required. Sub $20 USB800 Compact Flash card reader does the job AND does it so much faster. Your former tape clients would love the lack of high dollar VTR time or need.

2. No tape capture time and cost. The time to transfer files from Compact Flash cards to a portable hard drive is negligible compared to process of capturing from tape to hard drive. Your former tape clients would love the elimination of tape capture labor.

3. Hard drive reuse is many times that of tape reuse.

3. 10 to 20 tapes vs. 1 portable hard drive being FedX'ed

These saving advantages are already available to FCP 6.02 and up - QT (.mov)
These savings will be soon available to any MXF NLE that handles this Sony XDCAMHD 422 codec.

Bottom line - if you were on the other end of the chain - which would you rather receive from the videographer - 10 to 20 tapes that have to all be captured, or a portable hard drive with all the footage already digitized ready to be copied onto the file server or edit bay raid?

October 21st, 2008, 01:51 PM	#11
John Richard Major Player Join Date: May 2006 Location: Incline Village, Nevada Posts: 323	Scott: Some cost & time advantages to consider with the XDR / Sony XDCAMHD 4:2:2 ... 1. Expensive VTR deck not required. Sub $20 USB800 Compact Flash card reader does the job AND does it so much faster. Your former tape clients would love the lack of high dollar VTR time or need. 2. No tape capture time and cost. The time to transfer files from Compact Flash cards to a portable hard drive is negligible compared to process of capturing from tape to hard drive. Your former tape clients would love the elimination of tape capture labor. 3. Hard drive reuse is many times that of tape reuse. 3. 10 to 20 tapes vs. 1 portable hard drive being FedX'ed These saving advantages are already available to FCP 6.02 and up - QT (.mov) These savings will be soon available to any MXF NLE that handles this Sony XDCAMHD 422 codec. Bottom line - if you were on the other end of the chain - which would you rather receive from the videographer - 10 to 20 tapes that have to all be captured, or a portable hard drive with all the footage already digitized ready to be copied onto the file server or edit bay raid? Last edited by John Richard; October 21st, 2008 at 02:34 PM.