Posted by PTravel on 01/11/00 11:45

"Frank" <frank@nojunkmail.humanvalues.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:05:40 GMT, in 'rec.video.production',
> in article <Re: Mini DV>,
> "PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Frank" <frank@nojunkmail.humanvalues.net> wrote in message
>>news:ija842h87rekpeuda8kgujgjestgo18kbd@4ax.com...
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>> 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".
>>
>>LOL.
>>
>>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?"
>>
>>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.
>
>><snip>
>>
>>> 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".
>>
>>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.

The only problem would be one of reliability. Tape is more robust than a
hard drive. Though it would provide a time advantage when it was time to
edit, I wouldn't want to run the risk of losing valuable video because of a
hard drive failure. Also, I archive all my raw footage, and that would
either entail buying new physical drives each time, which would be more
expensive (I pay $7 each, in lots of 5, for Sony Excellence tapes), or would
require transferring to tape, which loses the time advantage. I can see
where HDD cameras are advantageous for applications like ENG and small event
videography but, for someone like me, who falls somewhere between the casual
"family" shooter and a small event videographer, I don't think it's a good
solution.

>
> --
> Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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> Read Frank's thoughts on HDV at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/

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