[Kyle Self]

You misunderstood or had a rep who was lost. The EX is the only one which has CMOS chips. The 350 has ccd’s.

[Kyle Self]

Key part here, “I was hired to shoot a video”. The video belongs to the person who hired you. They paid for it.

Don’t sweat it, if you got anything it would only be a dribble, maybe $50.

K

[Kyle Self]

Oh god,

lucky for me the worst I ever had to deal with was the Sony 5850 and 5000. I think I still have nightmares about tying to conform edit list on a CMX.

K

[Kyle Self]

WRONG WRONG WRONG, Thank you for playing.

It has happened and will happen again as long as people continue to use content that does not belong to them. it doesn’t happen often because most of the people who wold do the suing never see the product. Using clips to motivate your sales force is using the clip for profit. Companies have been sued over this. all it takes sometimes is for someone to play the video and home and the wrong person see it or a disgruntled employee mail the videos out.

And no the editor is not going to get sued as long as they are an employee and not a contractor.

K

[Kyle Self]

Neither the z1 or HVX-200 are approved for anything more than partial content by Discovery, but I think you already know that.

I think many of us are with Steve hoping that with the chipset thats been talked about the XDCAM EX will be approved for a much higher content level.

K

[Kyle Self]

I think the only one that can answer you question is Discovery. I don’t know if they have an answer yet. Off hand as picky as they are it would not surprise me if the answer was no. If I had to guess I would say no for full use but ok for a larger percentage than the 200.

K

[Kyle Self]

Sounds like a malfunction, it would not be the first piece of equipment to malfunction and I am sure will not be the last. We once had a digibeta which mangled the second tape that went into it and had to go back to Sony 3 days after coming out of the box.

“It’s not meant to be handheld, due to it’s weight. But that’s fine, you can get used to it.”

Not meaning to pick on you personally, but those kind of comments crack me up. I guess I am just ancient but having run up and down a football sidelines with a betacam unit which had a 3 tube front end I can’t relate to any of those cameras as being too heavy for handheld work. I can shoot rock steady with something that has some weight and is balanced on my shoulder. Ask me to do that with something like an FX1 and forget it.

K

[Kyle Self]

I don’t think most pro photographers use the cheapest cards. I also think recording a continous video stream would be more taxing on the card than even a burst of 3 to 5 pics.

Thonk about it this way, you can buy cheap ram for your computer which has a greater number of errors. Problems, your coomputer hangs and crashes more often. You can buy more expensive ram without the errors and have fewer problems. You can buy cheap DVD’s which record more errors and have more problems when you record to them, or you can stick with more expensive ones that woprk better.

Do you really want to trust your footage to something you rigged together with the cheapest cards you can find?

Kyle

[Kyle Self]

Jan,

I never said I was looking for a $20,000 camera. I didn’t think something in the 30’s would be asking to much. Thanks for the info, it gives me a heads up on what to plan for next year.

Kyle

[Kyle Self]

Pretty much Peter, but I think I’ve gotten my answer in the silence.
I guess I’ll be shopping JVC. HDV was not my first option, but I do know they have a full sized cam somewhere in the $20,000 range coming shortly after their 1/3 chip offering. Seems I will be taking a much harder lok at it than I wanted to

Kyle