[Jordan Dwyer]

Here’s an idea Greg maybe you can advice me on this. If i were to go out with my EX1 and film some HIgh Definition wildlife footage of say the big 5 (or 7 as it is known now) would i be able to load that up onto a website and sell it off as source footage?

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[Jordan Dwyer]

That is so true. I attended a wildlife film festival here in Durban a few years back and everybody was scared to speak to the reps from discovery for fear of them taking the ideas and using it themselves.Surley discovery channell is aware of this bad PR. THey should embrace ideas and proposals and put in place a proper system of onwership of these proposals, so the originator of the idea will atleist be involved with the production. I think your right greg in saying that you need to already have the critical footage in the bag when you approach them.

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[Jordan Dwyer]

Hi Ed, Do you mean that the producers will not accept your proposal if you are using a ex1? Due to the fact that the source footage will not be on a HDTAPE. What if i were to offer them the hd tape conversion as part of the proposal. It shouldnt be too hard to transfer to a HD tape?

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[Jordan Dwyer]

that’s strange. Ive heard about blu ray and tape drives but what about straight forward internal disk hard drives?
i use two 1.5 terrabyte internal sata drives to store and access footage. i keep my BPAV files on the one drive and the mxf files on the other. If you work natively with BPAV files then you can keep BPAV files on both drives.

I worked it out that even by having to use two drives, one for backup and the other for working on, i only costs slightly more than if i were using MINI DV tapes.

Most computer motherboards these days come with more than 2 sata hard drive linking cables, So you could have your footage drive hooked up and your back up drive hooked up, and then also your operating system on a seperate drive. Depending on the amount of avaliable connections you could also have a seperate drive for jus your render files.

So in short i say backup on: internal hard disk drives

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[Jordan Dwyer]

Thanks Greg, that is good news. I knew there was a reason why i chose the ex1 over the z7, but somewhere between dshc card failure and huge storage requirements the reason got lost. Now i just need to find a discovery channel rep and pitch some ideas for here in Africa

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[Jordan Dwyer]

Hi Greg
What is silver status with discovery. Does that mean i can shoot an entire 54 minute with the ex1 or only a certain amount, in terms of being able to be shown on Discovery channel?

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[Jordan Dwyer]

It would be cool if it was a software update for the ex1 and 3 that gave the camera the ability to copy straight to an external hard drive in the field.

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