Kyle Self
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Hawke,
I am either missing something or you are way off base. What exactly did “Company B” do wrong? How did they violate a copyright?
You never stated anywhere that you owned the material, only that you had a contract with the client to provide duplication. If the client owns the material then he breached your contract with him but that is not the same thing as a copyright violation.
“Company B” would know nothing of that contract and would have done nothing wrong in copying the clients DVD’s for him. Your beef was with the client not the production company.
K
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How would you give them the footage if you were shooting on P2? Surely you were not going to walk the footage from station to station and have them copy it from the card?
First decide how you are going to give them the files. Hard drive, make it available for download, etc… Then see what format they want it delivered in. Bring your footage into your system, do whatever you plan on doing with it, export in the format they want. It is really that simple.
Even if you were shooting on P2 you have to decide how you were going to deliver the footage to them.
Kyle
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I am looking at them. But then again I was cutting 30 minute shows on a media composer when the big step forward was getting the Avid Broadcast Video Board (a steal for a mere $10,000) which if I remember right brought those nifty AVR’s 73 and 75 and no more toggling on the mac screen.
That was back in the days of those cool little boxes all stacked up and daisy chained together. 6 boxes holding 9gb drives for a whopping 54 gbs of storage for the paltry average of $2500 per box (yep $15,000 for 54 gbs, and people wonder why I laugh when they complain about terrabyte raids costing a few thousand)
Allo fthat to say, yes I am looking at one, my first choice to cut on is as its always been an Avid.
K
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From what I understand Media Composer 3.0 is supposed to have support.
K
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What NAB means to a company really depends on what they do. In the rush to show products and be seen everyone seems to have forgotten a long time ago that the B stands for Broadcasters.
It was a no win situation for Avid a long time ago, they never made the inroads with the newscutter system and station playback equipment they were hoping for. Apple needed the recognition and to be taken serious in the video field once upon a time. They don’t need that anymore and the price for doing a show is an awful lot of $3000 computers and $1000 software boxes.
Now my ex worked for a company which did system automation. Shortly before we divorced she spent a lot of time in Malaysia setting up an entire satellite broadcasting facility. NAB was their bread and butter. They brought a system and set it up in the booth and unless you knew someone who had a system at their facility thats the only place you could see one fully up and running. They would walk out of NAB with millions in leads and orders. There would never be any doubt about setting up a booth.
If your market is broadcasters (especially things like automation, transmitters, etc.) NAB is still the place to be. I think for awhile there have been a lot of people taking their products to NAB who might have been better served spending their dollars elsewhere.
K
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Really, half? And where would that be? I don’t know anyone who has seen a scandisk sxs card, but everything I’ve always heard put them in the same price bracket as the Sony cards when they arrive.
K
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Sigh, the good old days, lol. I could call a free lancer 4 states away and of course he had a betacam. He would shoot, send the tape back, I would pop the tape into my old trusty BVW, and it played back. No worries, just happiness. Then of course I could always pop a 1″ master out the door and virtually any station, dub house, or decent sized post house could play it.
Now, who gets the D5 and who gets the HDCam? I can’t play that back because it came from a JVC, I can play the cannon, ahh but no its in progressive mode. The list is endless.
It does make for an interesting trip.
K
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I would have to echo what Craig said. Before the 200 arrived I couldn’t wait for it. I wanted one, then I got one to try and it was a huge disappointment Not only the 200 the 500 as well were way off the mark for what I needed.
I waited on the EX and after spending a few day with one, I will be ordering shortly.
Of course if yoiu go into the Panasonic forum your going to get a much different answer. As always the best thing to do is try for yourself.
K
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“There is still the question of what format to go with; I really like the full-size P2 cameras but, I’m having visions of the M-II debacle. I kind of feel like we’re already headed down that path”
Your still thinking in terms of tape formats. Neither is a format, they are storage devices. Granted they are storage devices that are company specific, but they are still only storage devices.
You can record to either card in a format that is easily used by most places. It is not like needing to worry over whether the place you go has the correct VTR to play your tape. It is a computer file that is pretty easily handled.
The best part? Both the P2 and the SxS cards will handle new formats, they are after all only computer storage devices. Unlike a tape deck you will be good to go with a new format change. Well at least until the new recording format requires more bandwidth than the card can provide.
Talk to your clients and get their thoughts on how they want to handle the footage.
K
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If you look under the forums there is a classified/for sale listing forum.
K