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Posted by FCP User on 10/23/83 11:59
In article <tpidnb_2JMY7pITYnZ2dnUVZ_q6dnZ2d@adelphia.com>,
"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:
> Thanks David. I searched rec.video.production back through 1994 and saw no
> references. Perhaps Martin or Richard can recall.......
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> Smarty
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> "David McCall" <david_____@techshop.net> wrote in message
> news:FGaSg.3952$SD5.3292@trndny01...
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> > "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
> > news:y-adndCrXuKrqITYnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d@adelphia.com...
> >> Richard,
> >>
> >> This camcorder stores its' recordings on either a hard disk or Flash
> >> drive. Why have you decided this is not a camcorder?
> >>
> >> Smarty
> >>
> >> BTW, have they really been at this "for years"? Can you please send a
> >> link to prior versions?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> > I think I've seen this, or a similar device, mentioned here before,
> > and it was months if not years ago. Perhaps Martin brought it up?
> >
> > David
> >
Most of us who regularly attend NAB saw the prototype back in April.
I'll say again what I said then.
The camera is perfectly rational and I can't think of any manufacturing
or production reason why it won't fly.
But I do think that the 4k camera is all well and good, but shooting at
that rez brings HUGE stresses to the post process that nobody's come
even close to addressing.
In essense post-shoot storage is a massive and currently unsolvable
problem that will choke this concept unless something changes hugely in
storage technology between now and when the product ships.
Sorry, but flash memory isn't going to work for my clients work. - nor
any other volitile media that upon encountering a glitch, makes all my
work disappear.
I will NEVER put myself into a position to tell a client "You know all
the equipment, cast, crew, actors and even craft services money I just
spent for you over the past week? There was a static discharge when I
picked up the memory module and the footage - all of it - Poof, it's all
gone. Sorry.
Nor do I find dedicating a closet to a bunch of aging legacy "client
hard drives" anything but deeply stupid. Drives fail. And when they do,
they're no better than flash memory.
And investing in and stockpiling mechanical hard disc drives - instead
of tapes or discs is just stupid on it's face.
Sorry, but I want dependable media for storage. Betacam worked, DVCAM
works, even Mini-DV works. Until there's a reliable and robust storage
medium that works for a few hours of 4k media - I don't think this dog's
gonna hunt.
And right now, nothing I can see on the horizon - certainly not Blue ray
or Sony's XDCAM - has anywhere NEAR enough capacity to be realistic as a
storage and backup solution to something putting out uncompressed files
that size.
It's like someone invented a popcorn popper that can churn out a
thousand gallons of popcorn a second. Sounds great until you turn it on
and realize that after it's run a couple of minutes, you have a mountain
of popcorn and have to turn the bloody thing off until someone figures
out where to get - how to use - and who actually can afford the bloody
GIANT popcorn bags.
Until that changes, IMO, it's a lovely technological innovation that got
everything totally right - except the part of the production chain that
could potentially make it actually an effective production choice -
affordable, dependable, field footage file storage.
Until they show me that - I'm spending my money elsewhere.
FWIW
--
Bill Davis
StartEditingNow.com
DVD editing instruction with Multi-Track Movies
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