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Anyone here using the Sony GV-D1000 as a deck
I’ve been hearing good things about using the Sony GV-D1000 as a deck? Although sold as a video walkman the quality and attributes seem well suited for a deck, in the studio, and a monitor, on the set.
jmf
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I used to have the GVD-300, which is basically the same thing minus the LCD screen. It worked fine for a couple of years of production use, but then it started having several different mechanical problems, up to a point where I understood I had to leave it for dead. Service guys explained me the DV Walkman has the same tape mechanism of a Sony VX camcorder, ie, not exactly designed for heavy duty editing applications. Given the price difference, I would say that getting a DSR-11 (or the equivalent Panasonic or JVC models) is a better idea, and they are also PAL/NTSC switchable, if that’s useful to you.
Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
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We use it on the road and in the studio for a firewire ingest deck (that’s about all it’s good for). It comes in handy becuase it is small, light, extremely portable, and handiest of all, battery operated. In fact it has won some business for us on a couple of occasion. Often we will start to throw together a promo on a powerbook of the stuff we shot earlier that day. The client takes a look at what we can do and decides to use us as a post house as well. Very handy. I wouldn’t suggest it for crucial monitoring (it only has S-Video or composite to feed another monitor, and the wuailty of the built in lcd is negligable), but it does get the dv footage in the machine very easily in it’s native form.
On the other hand, if you want to go uncompressed, this is not the deck for you.
Hope this helps.
Jeremy
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We use it on the road and in the studio for a firewire ingest deck (that’s about all it’s good for). It comes in handy because it is small, light, extremely portable, and handiest of all, battery operated. In fact it has won some business for us on a couple of occasion. Often we will start to throw together a promo on a powerbook of the stuff we shot earlier that day. The client takes a look at what we can do and decides to use us as a post house as well. Very handy. I wouldn’t suggest it for crucial monitoring (it only has S-Video or composite to feed another monitor, and the quality of the built in lcd is negligible), but it does get the dv footage in the machine very easily in it’s native form.
On the other hand, if you want to go uncompressed, this is not the deck for you.
Hope this helps.
Jeremy
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Cheap construction, poor quality innards. Slow on and off the heads. For a day in day out edit deck, this is NOT the deck to get. Get a DSR-20 minimum. Don’t cheap out on decks, powered speakers or video monitors. Unless you’re a hobbyist, get a deck you can live with.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Thanks for the candid skinny.
Knowledgeable and pointed advice can save guy a headache or two.
jmf
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