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Posted by Frank on 04/18/06 04:28
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:05:40 GMT, in 'rec.video.production',
in article <Re: Mini DV>,
"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote:
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>"Frank" <frank@nojunkmail.humanvalues.net> wrote in message
>news:ija842h87rekpeuda8kgujgjestgo18kbd@4ax.com...
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>> He also, knowing full well that I'm a city boy through and through,
>> doesn't fathom why I sometimes mention the term "render farm".
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>LOL.
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>Except we'll see him on this newsgroup after he's spent a few months with
>one of the HDD machines asking, "Why don't my DVDs look as good as the one
>the videographer did of my sister's wedding?"
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>THEN he'll learn. ;)
So help me, I like to help people when I can, but if he were ever to
post here, especially something such as that, I would leave responses
to the capable, patient, hands of individuals such as yourself.
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>> Given that DV (including DVCAM and DVCPRO) consumes under 14 GB per
>> hour of storage, and 80 GB and 100 GB 2-1/2" notebook computer style
>> hard drives are readily available, I don't understand why you say "it
>> would have to be a mighty big hard drive".
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>I use my camcorder for travel video, and generally will shoot 5 to 10 hours
>of raw video a week. That's 70 to 140 gigs on a 3-week trip. It would
>defeat the point of the convenience of direct-to-disk capture if I had to
>transfer everything to a laptop every night.
I can appreciate that, but what if the drive were removable, and
priced at say, $1.25 USD per gigabyte? That sounds like a good deal to
me.
--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
[Please remove 'nojunkmail.' from address to reply via e-mail.]
Read Frank's thoughts on HDV at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/
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