Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats

You take a bigger risk getting into the fast lane on the freeway too.
It's a trade off,

These units do have shock sensors and data protection from power
interrupts, but they are still drives. (2x60 gigs) Backup strategies
still apply

Eventually, solid state versions should replace these uber capacity
bit-buckets, becoming more like megasized SD cards. (Then you can lose
a whole weeks shoot at once ;-)

I would never accuse you of this Tom, but IF you were to follow the
crowd and buy into the non-optical tapeless workflow (maybe you just
don't have $$ for a sony 355 w/glass), drives are great. As a
substitute for expensive SxS memory, they rock. For continuous shooting
of live events up to 5 hrs, and sports, they rock. For instant AMA
editing they rock. For eliminating a data wrangler from your budget,..
you guessed it.

I personally love the XDCAM, but it is the new" old school". (Albeit w/
HD, autoclipping, autocapture, proxies, ancillary data, digital
archiving and mastering).

Honestly, for" Run and Gun" shoots, I could live with either solution.

RT

Tom McDonnell wrote:

>
>
> >For under a grand, the 120GB Sony HD recorder on the back of an EX3 gives
> around 7 hrs of 35Mb record time.
>
> My only fear would be god forbid if the drive fails, crashes or is
> accidently formatted. You lose an entire days work on one drive. With
> XDCAM
> if a disc fails, while still catastrophic, would be only a part of the
> days
> work.
>
> I'm old school in that tape, Digibeta, HDCAM-SR, D5 are still viable and
> proven archive backups. I find it so funny how videotape is seen as passé
> considering LTO is magnetic tape.
>
> TMcD
>
>

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