I talked to the owner of Jony Jib and we figured an hour to set up but then the thing is on wheels so that should take care of movement around a complex.

A platform of some sort with a tripod would be better but I'm not going anywhere near that "safe" platform. It looks like one step either way and your either face planting or ending up on your butt.

What would work is a tripod of some sort that can get the camera at least 10 feet up, have room for controls and a LCD so you can see what you're filming, and fold up nice and neat into a 4 foot long little package with little tear down.

Now if I ran the world......

So let's change the subject for a moment and assume, for the sake of what I'm about to ask, that everything works the way I envision.

Any suggestions on the following -

Upgrade to the mic for the JVC 200
What filters for the lens? UV? ND?
What batteries to run the whole rig? Anton Bauers?
I know we talked about DTE and Firestore but I was reading about the whole FAT32 vs NTFS and the break down of large files into smaller ones and the dropping of frames that that can cause. Have they addressed that yet? And what about JVC's own little DR-HD100 recorder? Anyone know anything about it's performance?
DVD replicator? Suggestions? Buy one or build one? Sounds like I can save money building my own. Drive suggestions?
Blank media (DVD) suggestions? And I read not to burn at too fast a rate on another post here. What's the fastest/safest burn speed to ensure no issues with the DVD's?

Lot's of questions but you all have the experience I lack and your willingness to share your views on what brands work would be a great help as well.

Thanks in advance,

Henry

JVC might be coming out with a flash memory recorder.

http://governmentvideo.com/articles/...cle_1425.shtml

Personally, the current choices for camera mountable hard disk recording strike me as pretty poorly conceived devices at awfully high prices.

Here's a mic you might want to consider (long shotgun):

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...icrophone.html

If your gona put the mics directly on the cameras your gano want the really long shot guns. You can't put one on the jib because of motor noise.

Save yourself the trouble, buy the burners, Unless your good with that kinda stuff. If you buy them it's as simple as pushing one botton.

I have heard good and bad stuff about the firestore hd-100 for the fvc hd cameras. I guess it's one of those try before you buy.