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http://www.cineform.com/products/CineFormRecorder.htm The Convergent Design SDI recorder is currently slated for $5000 or maybe less: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=106861 But your point is made; either solution is considerable more expensive than simply using SXS cards, plus neither recorder is available yet. |
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Will the Z7 have hdmi out. I think Cineform's first flash recorder was supposed to be just for hdmi only, with a more expensive HD-SDI out later and more $$$.
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That would be great if the Cineform recorder comes in at a decent price. The Z7 and flash recorder would be the poor man's killer HD rig.
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PMW-EX1 = $6700 + $3600 for 4 16gb SxS cards (4-hour recording time) + $2800 PDWU1 XDCAM deck for archiving (+ $30/hour for XDCAM disks for archival) = $13,200 HVR-S7 = $5300 (just a guess at street price) + $960 for 8 8gb CF drives (if I want 4-hours of CF recording) + $12 for 4 HDV tapes (4-hour record time) = $6272 No archiving necessary. Let's assume in a year or two I want to upgrade the codec and the Cineform device is available, we could add $2000. = $8272. So, for $4920 LESS, the Z7 gives me an interchangeable lens, more compact form factor and instant archiving. The major tradeoff is 1/3" chips vs. 1/2". Sounds like a compromise I'd be willing to make. Given the media and archival cost for the XDCAM-EX, I think it makes the PDW-335 at $15000 look like an even better deal than the PMW-EX1. |
Actually the EX1 is indeed shipping at this time: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=108508
But I agree with you, Brian, and that's definitely a huge advantage of HDV on tape -- the cassette is its own archive. |
Z7=HDMI, the shoulder mount=SD HDI.
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Be nice to see a camera which recorded to XDCAM disc and SxS at the same time, for all the same reasons. |
Aside from having redundant backups, I'm not sure I understand what the real benefit of recording simultaneously to XDCAM disc and to SxS memory would be.
For tape and flash, the dual hybrid system makes sense to me, since tape is archival, but can only be captured in a linear fashion, while the flash memory is nonlinear, random access, but essentially ephemeral. So the two media complement each other nicely. You dump the flash card onto your hard drive, re-use the card for the next shoot, and put the tape in the vault. However, XDCAM disc is both random-access AND long-lived enough to be considered archival, so I don't see the advantage of a dual disc/flash system. Am I missing something? |
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The argument in the past has always been that solid state is best for getting to an "edit ready" state - but you then have to actively backup/archive. This now allows a certain amount of having cake AND eating it. |
This might sound silly, but has anyone heard of a possibility to copy any type of files to a miniDV tape? I'm buying the EX1, but keeping my V1E - now, it'd be nice to be able to use the miniDV tapes as archives for BOTH! But of course the only obvious way of printing to such tape is what the NLE/V1E allows, and this is just the 1080/50i format... Any way of storing other format as raw files?
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http://www.coolatoola.com/ http://www.jakeludington.com/project...dv_camera.html http://www.imaging-resource.com/SOFT/DVB/DVB.HTM The primary drawback is the time requirement; your camcorder's tape transport can't operate in record mode any faster than it was designed to run, so it'll take one hour to fill a standard Mini DV cassette with appx. 15 GB of data. But it certainly is a viable option. |
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