Re: [Avid-L2] Living in the last decade....

Thanks, Greg.

If you recall, is usb2 'slow' as in slower than real-time
recording to a deck?

I just looked on the auction here -- found one for $480. May just
have to buy it and play around.

And, yes, we have great internet here. I've got 5Gb fiber to my
house for $60 a month. BUT Japan is the strangest mix of high
tech and low tech. No net delivery. In fact today when the guy
told us they're moving to (soon to be obsolete?) XDCAM I had to
laugh and tell them that delivering over the net is the norm in
the US! He laughed too, but said Japanese have a deep distrust of
the net, and if you can't hand something over to someone, you
haven't 'delivered' it. Culture -- endlessly fascinating.

Tim



On 2020.01.30 16:40, Secret HQ wrote:
> I've done it both ways-but not recently. The USB drive is fine, but it's like... usb2? So kinda slow. Cheap now. I probably have one of those if you want it for whatever eBay gets...
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> You can have my HDCam D1800 deck for cheap, too, if that helps. Shipping might kill the value, but you know more than that.
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> Don't they have, like, good internet there? Just send them the 'package' that goes on the xdcam and let them copy it to the disc. I know there's probably a love of tradition... but at least here, cheap beats that out... and uploading mxf is so cheap!! (But many networks make you send LTO. )
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> I gave away a couple of boxes of Xdcam discs in August.
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> Heck, they cloud buy a computer with a BMD or AJA card and do the download and the playback all from the same machine!
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> Secret Headquarters, Inc
> GK Huson, LLC
> Greg (at) SecretHQ.com
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>> On Jan 29, 2020, at 21:17, Tim Selander <selander@tkf.att.ne.jp> wrote:
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>> We air on 13 local stations in rural Japan, and are still delivering to the stations on HDCAM tape.
>> We just got word that with Sony no longer supporting HDCAM deck repair, most of these independent stations will be switching to deliverables on XDCAM HD disks.
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>> No experience with XDCAM disks so far. Since we will only be using it for deliverables, I'm wondering if the USB drive (PDW-U2) is the way to go, with Avid's "Export to device..." or if it is better/faster/more stable to use an XDCAM HD deck with all the usual HDSDI ins & outs, RS422 control, and Digital Cut.
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>> Googling has not been too helpful....
>> Any advice from those who have used XDCAM is greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
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