Pat Mcgowan
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I look at it this way – buy a certified system and have it integrated by a Matroz AXIO reseller. For every day you aren’t messing around with hardware and tech support youll be editing and billing. If the thing doesn’t work, call the reseller and let them deal with it.
my 2 cents
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Cost is not an issue. Workflow is the major concern.
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A little backgrounder:
We do a wide variety of projects.
Corporate video which may involve several hours of talking head sources.
High level marketing using lots of graphics, greenscreen etc..
Broadcast commercials incorporating beauty shots, staged scenarios etc..We don’t do docs and don’t do broadcast drama.
We have two Matrox AXIO HD boxes (so far we like ’em as long as development in the PPRO world continues to mature). We’ll probably add a third AXIO soon. In addition we have several design, compositing boxes using a variety of PC hardware and software.
Have used DVCAM for much of our acquisition until recently. Lately we’ve done 3 widescreen jobs: Broadcast 30 using HDCAM 730, Broadcast 30 using HVX200 (greenscreen), and a short drama using Sony HDV.
We can’t justify the cost of a Varicam or s HDCAM so we wnat to have a small form factor camera in house for lower budget jobs and as a second camera when we rent a higher end rig. The camera I want does not exist yet although the impending release of the HVX900 from Panasonic has got my attention.
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Probelms solved. Our Array was not set up properly by our integrator.
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Our situation is a bit odd and I’m hopin someone has an answer wither here or on another forum.
I don’t see the price tag for the AXI HD system as excessive for what we got. Try pricing a comparable AVID system (sit down first).
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Good suggestion. We did the “cleansing” of the Word docs and then discoverd that small blank spaces are required between subtitles periodically. No rhyme or reason but the workaround worked when errors were generated while burning to DVD.
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Hmmmm, we recorded 720 24p on the HVX200 and then digitized via firewire into an AXIO HD box. We set the PPRO job at 720 24p and did not notice any issues.
Are you saying that the camera firewire output generates 1080 60i streams no matter what the aquisition settings?
Should we be working 1080i on the AXIO then?
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How do you figure they’ve paid for themselves? Do you mean in lieu of tape purchases or are you charging for card usage?
I figure we’ll be using so many firewire and/or USB2 drives for long term storgae that the price will be the same as tape.
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I’m sure Panasonic OEMs the cards and has them made somewhere in China, then marks them up about 1000%. Why? Because they can.
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Hmmm, unless you had some wierd delay in the live sound mixes /monitor mixes etc.. your should be able to sync everything up by sliding your master track against the camera sound.