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Why not get your clients to give YOU a thankyou note for all your hard work on their project, you can then use that for marketing and give that to ‘media consultants’ and other interested parties.

BTW What is a media consultant?

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Sony claim uncompressed 48k audio so it should be good going line in.

However why not record seperate sound if sound quality is a major issue?

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Might be worth taking a look at the new Sony HVR 7 camera which records to both solid state and tape

https://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/view_item_cat.php?catalogue_number=sony_hvr-z7e

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Top end company THE MILL charge

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Hi Kev,
You say your file size is 4.9GB that is to large for a standard DVD, you need to get it under 4.7GB

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We also back up onto apple idisk as i remember once an editor arriving at work one morning to find his Avid did not exist as thieves had taken it in the night!

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With file based footage the offline online workflow is tricky as you will have todo a conversion from high quality to low quality which takes time.

200hrs shooting on P2 would also be a challenge i would have thought.
That footage will need to be on a big raid and probably backed up to firewire drives anyway

My feeling is your shooting with the wrong camera !

You would be better off shooting either DVC PRO 100 tape
HDCAM tape
or maybe XDCAM HD

Good luck, you will need it.

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‘if you go into a big production facility or network in the US you will see mostly AJA hardware and not much else.’

That maybe because AJA is an American company !

Plenty of top end post companies and broadcasters in Europe use Blackmagic with great results.

Having an AJA card wont make clients pay a higher day rate.