[Jeff Crisle]

Have you ever stopped to calculate how many drivers are required to simply plug a Sony PMW 200 into a Mac and transfer footage? Has it ever occurred to anyone at Sony that perhaps a camera that simply plugs in and allows you to drop footage onto a desktop or into a NLE without having to search the Internet far and wide for a dozen different drivers might be a more intelligent approach? Is both incredibly frustrating and totally unnecessary to have to spend hours on message boards forums and Sony’s ridiculously disorganized site to figure out how to simply plug my camera into my computer and bring footage into premiere. This should be the single easiest step in the process, yet it is the most convoluted cluster ..