[Slaveboy]

we’re going to shoot over to NAB tomorrow, I’ll go and find out. If it IS like the Io in theory, but on steriods, then it’s a really exiciting product.

[Slaveboy]

I was wondering when tape would start to die. I imagine the costs for a hard disk based media system would be less – you no longer need the delicate tape transports and ultra sensitive heads.

[Slaveboy]

really? i’ve never head that, but that definately something i’ll look into right now.

[Slaveboy]

you guys are totally forgetting sales tax!

I think we angled ourselves into a posistion to get a 2.6TB XRAID. That’ll hold enough for the show, plus some overhead. Renting a FCP HD studio for a week isn’t very expensive at all, but I’d rather use that $$ to gear us up than give it to a rental house.

I like the idea of doing the whole things in DVCPROHD and then loading/laying off 10bit HD in smaller chunks. But you would all probably agree it’s better if you can have everything 10 HD digitized. Just in case something goes awry, or you type in the wring insert edit timecode. Or you client misplaces their master you made them.

[Slaveboy]

thanks for the feedback.

i’m thinking in the back of my mind, “if you had 10 HD camera packages for the shoot, then why don’t you have any $$ for post?”

[Slaveboy]

Looking back though the forum I see this is NOT a recommended workflow.

So either we get more storage, or we rent the HDCAM deck longer and online in chunks. So either way it’s not going to be cheap.