Posted by doc on 06/01/06 20:08

most everyone i know using DTE (direct to edit Hard Drive solutions) also
put tape in the machines as a back up (that's 100% back up) which is an
excellent idea for an important shoot. when we get our DTE drives we will
also be taping too just as a precaution should we encounter operator error
:o)

drd

"PTravel" <ptravel@ruyitang.com> wrote in message
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> "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
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>>><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
>> [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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