Les Fitzpatrick
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After a lot of web searching, I chose the Sound Devices PIX 240 because it records DNxHD to SSD’s. Two other devices are available that do much the same including Cinedeck and Cine Martin. Cinedeck probably represents the holy grail for recording. Weighing in at around $10,000 this tool covers all bases from un-compressed on down.
Cine Martin remains quite mysterious and isn’t shipping until end of Summer. A Barcelona company, they could certainly use the services of a quality English writer as well as more than their very scant information about the device.
While the Pix 240 is also unavailable at this time (the second week of June), I have quite a lot of confidence in their offering because they are a terrific audio equipment manufacturer and my interaction with Sound Devices has been excellent thus far. Of these three options, only Cinedeck is bullet-proof at this time. It was simply more tool than I required for my field production work flow.
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I too am a small shop. My perpetually limited capital budget has always been spent on everything but an archival tool. That changed late last week with my purchase of the Storage DNA Evolution with auto-loader. It will be a while before I know whether I chose the right vendor but I’m convinced I made the right decision moving from spinning drives, DVD and head-in-the-sand hopes to LTO.
I think Cache-A makes great products with a proven track record. BRU has been in the business a long while as well. Once I read deeper into the Storage DNA story, I came to believe they’re offering a solution driven be people who intimately understand my business and work flow.
The boxes arrive next week. Soon afterward, I intend to sleep peacefully, for a change. The Storage DNA acquisition was driven by my recent loss of two near-completion projects due to a storage failure.
Hopefully, sometime in June, I will have implemented a vault solution that will end decades of concern about asset management. We shall see.
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Tom of Cache-A, have you any thoughts to share regarding AXF (Archive Xchange format)?
Thank you all for adding to my modest enlightenment around archival solutions.
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Rich,
And of course that’s exactly what we did. I keep getting missives from Cloud companies and such about what they can do for my company as it relates to storage and archiving, uploading and such. As yet, we’re so far from the holy Grail.
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Never mind. After about 30 minutes, it suddenly opened. Am I receiving subliminal suggestions to purchase CS5?
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Jeff,
There’s no error message at all. The only fall-out includes an Adobe-generated crash report and the application is closed. At the moment, I’m running my sequence through Adobe Encode and will try to bypass Encore transcoding altogether. It seems odd I can author shorter sequences but nothing in the one hour or longer range. I never had this experience with DVD Studio Pro.
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A good letter Steve. Ok folks, so with what you know, what tapeless camera would one purchase today in the budget range of $20,000? Sorry for being nebulous but I’m at a loss for what’s next and, as much as one could complain about Panasonic, I’ve lost faith in Sony even more.