[Ed Kukla]

I’d still have to physically move the card back and forth to the script super for updating after each scene. Running a USB cable would seem difficult. Even my 25′ USB cable would be limiting

[Ed Kukla]

Ron

Are you using CS4? I get a lot of stuttering with my MBP17 & Premiere CS4 even with simple video clips. It’s motion in the clips that causes stuttering

[Ed Kukla]

petrol pcbp-3n backpack. In between the 2 previous packs mentioned. The CB-25 is just too tight for an EX-3 in my opinion. I sent mine back

[Ed Kukla]

I needed a macbookpro becuse of situations with my XDCAM EX-3. I had an older version of premiere 6.1 on a PC. Adobe upgraded me from Premiere 6.1 to Premiere Pro CS4 for $300 and sent me the discs for the mac version. I had to agree to destroy the PC version to satify Adobe licencing.
It did take several weeks for them to send me the discs

[Ed Kukla]

Which software?

In premiere, it won’t show up in the clip bin. Very frustrating. I’ve filed a bug report to Adobe. If you are using Adobe, please complain to them.

[Ed Kukla]

I’m adding this up for your 2k video production.

1/2 day shoot with you and 2 crew members.
V/O for 2 minutes
Editing
graphics
HD camera, Lights, dolly
Production liability insur
Workmans Comp insur
Equipment insur

2K seems very low, even for a small market with low cost of living.

[Ed Kukla]

the real problem is that pricing is all over the place.
local cable offer spots for $250 or even free. Now we all know that is real poor production; but the client thinks that is “good enough” and why pay all that extra for your services?
So you have to sell the reasons for charging more. I’m having a tough time getting through to people that they can make themselves look bad with a poorly done production. Especially those who don’t buy video very often.

[Ed Kukla]

There is usually not the time to do a transfer to tape. Shoot 3 to 4 hours of material in the field, hand over tapes to the producer and bye bye.
If you are a closed loop, you can probably do what you propose on your time. HDcam decks are not cheap, nor are hdcam tapes.

If you have something they REALLY want, anything goes. That is EXTREMELY rare.

[Ed Kukla]

Now for the rest of the story…

Discovery may very well approve of the EX cameras for gathering images. What that does not tell you is that they will probably not accept the cards or a hard drive for submission of materials. They usually want ALL original materials handed over to them for archival. And they will only accept tape. So you will need to transfer ALL your footage over to HDCAM tape for delivery as part of any typical contract with Discovery. Same for History except it will be DVCPro HD tape.

As I have posted elsewhere; I have offered my EX camera at significant savings over F900 for Discovery and HDX900 for History and been turned down EVERY time because of the requirement to turn in all materials on tape. The producers don’t want the extra work involved in transferring 30 hours of material to tape.

[Ed Kukla]

This is my understanding of Discovery HD:

Discovery HD has 3 levels; gold, silver & bronze. 35mm and some of the 1″ imager cameras are gold, the bulk of production HD cameras such as the Sony F900, Varicam, HDX900 are all silver. HDV, HVX200 and all SD material are bronze.
Bronze has severe restrictions on length of time within a show and the use has to be justified with no alternative available.
Silver is fully accepted for the entire length of programming on Discovery HD.

The EX cameras are silver level so Discovery is putting them on the same acceptance level with F900, Varicam & HDX900. Note the HVX200 did not make it nor did any HDV.