Test of the HPX 2700 now online

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Richard Boghosian] “So the HD file off-load (the digitization)was really only a fraction of the storage needed compared to safely storing the whole shoot.”

Well, you will need to store all of the recorded for footage in the native MXF structure. Drives are cheap. Cheaper than tape on a per gig basis.

But for editing, you simply log and transfer only the footage you want (kind of like capturing only the footage you want off of tape). That will be your source footage and you can make tc reviews off of that. P2 still has time code. Each card (in a sense) becomes it’s own roll so you can name the tc burn appropriately if you are using FCP to make your burns (i.e card 1, card 2). If not, just follow the timecode. 50 hours of tape, means roughly 100 tapes (assuming around 30 mins per tape). Timecode doesn’t go to 100 hours.

Jeremy

[Anthony Violanto]

Is Noah the only person looking forward to the future?

For those of you complaining about no tape option, the cameras all have a HDSDI output. with one single little BNC cable, you can hook the camera up to a portable deck and record to tape with audio embedded.

complaining about having to call up digital files of archived footage and wanting to sift through a library of 1000 tapes for a client sounds more like an episode of the show hoarders lol