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And, keep in mind, what you're facing today is the worst it'll ever be. Every month that goes by the capacities grow, the prices come down, the equipment gets faster... by moving to the computer domain instead of the video domain a lot of options open up. Don't forget the FireStore and the forthcoming CinePorter; the CinePorter promises up to 320gb of storage (again, 13 hours of 720/24pN). Both products will work with the larger cameras as well as the HVX, so it might be applicable to what you want to do. |
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Some good points there, thanks. I'm still trying to get my head around how to make this work. There's a short term and a long term thing going on. If I decide to buy a new camera for a current project, then I want to move in the same direction with a bigger company camera and system in a year or so. When that 2000 (is that the number?) comes out next year, it could fit in here (I've been interestedin XDCAM HD, but I'm hesitant to go down to a 2/3" chip camera as the main camera). I'm also interested in 24p but for different reasons than the usual. The data management of XDCAM or P2 would work very well for us later on (assuming P2 can be dealt with the same way as XDCAM, the proxy file labeling and all that stuff).
I haven't seen anything yet about if the 2000 will be doing 24p. If it does, then that issue is probably solved. For our big company productions, the P2 thing isn't too bad. There's plenty of time and people available to handle the data transfers. And by then we'd have plenty of cards. The big bugaboo for P2 for me has been more archival than capacity. In other words, how do I file original tapes for years and be able to access them if I don't have any original tapes. The answer seems to be to put the files onto DVD, and eventually Blu-ray DVD. I assume the mxf files can be loaded to a hard drive and then transferred over to DVD with no problem. So that's probably a workable thing, though a bit time consuming. With XDCAM HD, you just file the discs like tape. I guess my issue in this area is if the benefits of the camera outweigh the hassle of the data. The more immediate issue, the HVX200, is in the realm of capacity. There's a cost/benefit thing here too. A package with four 8 gig cards tops out at around $10K. I don't think I'd want to spend any more than that on that particular camera. The cost gets too high and I'm better off with an F-330. The 4 cards would give me about 80 min of time. Then I could transfer the stuff via laptop and firewire to a hard drive, and make the DVDs at my leisure. That's been difficult to consider because 80 minutes isn't all that much. However, Now that I think about it, on this current project, it would be very rare that I would do more than one interview in a day which would be that long. So, P2 isn't out of the question. The thing that got me interested is not the P2 concept, but the HVX camera itself. The ability to do slow motion, specifically. That in itself is a big deal all of a sudden. Now I've got to investigate how FCP5 will handle DCVPRO HD files and what I'd need to do on that front. |
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