[Mike Sorel]

Thanks Noah,

We will be delivering on Betacam SP for the broadcaster in the end. It sounds like doing the conversion after the edit may be a good solution in the end. Less headaches on the road during production.

Mike

[Mike Sorel]

I attended a XDCAM HD seminar last week and the sony reps say that the 2/3 inch chip XDCAM HD will be out next fall. They also added that it will be an ENG camera without 24p recording, and a 24p 2/3 inch XDCAM HD is not expected until spring 2008. Both will be quite a bit more expensive than the 1/2 inch model according to the reps, but they did not give any numbers.

I currently am shooting on a HDW 730, and will be doing a side by side compairison with the XDCAM HD next week. If the image quality and workflow turn out to be as good as I’ve read in other posts I think I’d have to consider switching. I’m wondering if anone else has done this, and what your results have been? Would I be nuts to change from HDCAM to XDCAM HD?

Mike Sorel