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Jan,
I just called him and sent him an e-mail link to this thread. I also CCd you on that e-mail.Thanks for joining us on the Sony CineAlta HD forum. We appreciate your support.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
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Technology is moving at an amazing clip. But, (and I know I’m going to catch hell for this) I think that the business is starting to get too cheap. By this, I mean that it used to cost a lot of money to produce quality programming. The HVX200 mentioned above is higher quality than our $30,000 Sony 507 BetaCams of 20 years ago when a good edit system cost between $50K and $350K. Today, we pay $30K for the equivelant of the $350K system of yesterday. This is actually bad for business but very good for the noobies. When I needed the second 36Gigs of SCSI for my D-Vision, I had to take out a loan for $5000 – for 36 gigs!!!!. Now you get 500 gigs for $200. How can these companies survive?
The jobs are going to the cheapest bidder and a lot of it looks like crap because companies are compromising quality for a lower price. There were people who made a good living as freelence producers. They’re going away at an alarming rate.
People are always asking why they can’t get deluxe options on small cameras like the 200. Here it is: “You get what you pay for” and “You don’t get what you don’t pay for”. Panasonic’s line of HD cameras is somewhat almost free in my book and yet, there are some crybabies who want it all for free. Well, if Panasonic, Sony and everyone else starts cutting prices to get everyone’s cheap ass business, where will they be in the next five years. Ten years ago, we would not dream of shooting a professional job on anything less that a 2/3″ chip and now, 1/4″ chips??? Those F-900s and Varicam’s cost a lot of money because there is a LOT of money tied up in R&D, materials and support. And the support that goes behind those products is enormous. The majors have repair centers on both coasts. Before something can be designed, built and ready to go out the door, it’s blown away by something new. And where do all of the parts come from? Jim Jennard is finding this out as we speak. He can’t even get his first product out the door. Companies quit making circuit boards and electronics if it’s easier to make money in another industry. No profit = no product.
IMHO, as far as tape vs drives vs cards or whatever we’ll have going in five years, you need to be able to maintain the original footage and the data that goes with it. As I see it, for P2, shoot on cards and back up to large optical discs, like Blu-Ray. The 50 gig discs are out or almost out and it will 200 gigs in a short time. When P2 made it’s appearance at NAB a few years ago, (Yes, P2 existed long before the HVX200) I told Jim McGowan, the Panny rep, “This is the answer to news cameras.” And I still hold that to be true. I also said to him “When the cards get larger and cheaper, you probably won’t be able to make enough cameras to fill the demand.” I believe I was correct in that respect also. Competition is good. Low prices hurt the entire industry.
My first DV camera was an EZ-1. Ever heard of it?
SO, I guess that’s my response to the capture storage comment.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
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An associate of mine walked into my office practically in tears last week and said that one of his P2 cards won’t show up in his reader or his computer slot. This error was going to cost him his pay for the day and most likely his client. He’ll be lucky if he doesn’y have to pay for a reshoot. Now, I know that sooner or later we’ll hear of the Blu-Ray gone bad too even though Sony says it won’t happen. (I guess they’ve never owned expensive electronics gear)
Or, you could buy a RED camera. They’re getting close.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
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Understand that you will have to push someone else aside to get those jobs. After all, someone is already doing every bit of that work right now. There are a zillion new editors pouring out of schools at an alarming rate and they are willing to work for nothing because they live at home and have no debt. If you’ll scan the posts in this forum, you’ll find that there a lot of highly qualified and experienced people in the business who are having a tough time of it. Good luck.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
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Well Dean, we’re back home in Arizona but I will keep this info for next time.
A couple that we had dinner with last night, told us how they spent the day at the nude beach. It puts pictures in your head. When we were getting on the plane today in Honolulu, we saw a gal that had fallen asleep in the sun on the beach and she had second and possibly third degree burns on her face. I couldn’t imagine how painful it must have been. And, the people next to us on the plane had two babies that screamed from Hawaii to Arizona. We didn’t travel till the kids were old enough to behave or we just beat the crap out of them. None of them died from the beatings contrary to current beliefs.
Anyway, we are looking at producing an aviation TV show. I’ve done sports shows and QVC type shows in the past but I was not in the driver’s seat on those. We are headed to Oshkosh for the fly-in during the last week of July. I’m shooting some stuff for an aviation client and we’re hunting for sponsors. Is your show sponsored?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
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Dean,
I am sitting in my hotel room at The Maui Prince, in Maui of course, and just saw a promo for Hawaii Goes Fishing on OC16.Funny how that happens.
I am here shooting a conference for my biggest corporate client. We spent Friday ay the home of Joe Sugarman who brought us Blu-Blocker sunglasses and he is also know as the man who started 800 numbers for ordering toll free.
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Well…Did you?
Steve Wargo
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[Sketchy] “They tend to think that the “warmth” is lost without actual film,” The warmth is very important to the directors but the people who are paying the bill are looking at million dollar savings and when it comes to having the warmth of the film or the warmth of the cash… well, like you said, the times they are a changing. There is a new car national commercial playing right now that was obviously shot at 30fps and when it comes on, I ask people how they like the difference and they ask “What difference?”
I don’t recall the carmaker but the car is black and driving down a mountain road.And, you asked about sending hard drives. That will never happen. You’ll be able to stream them in before then. A movie theater here in Phoenix gets their HD movies over a DSL at night.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck -
Jiri,
Welcome to the 21st century.
We have 5 stations of FCP. If I could have my old Discreet Edit back, I’d jump at it.
We have BMD cards and Multibridges. One of the MBs is kind of finicky but everything works perfectly fine. It’s a tough call between BMD and AJA. I’ve had a Digisuite for years on Edit and it had it’s problem days.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck -
I need to read this stuff before hitting the send button. I hate people that can’t spell.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck