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Originally Posted by Mr. E
Its still proven to be higher quality than hard drive based video. Besides, Canon wouldn't release 3 new miniDV cams if it were dying anytime soon. Plus, the other issue with hard drive based cams is, what do you do about originals? Sure you can burn them to DVD but it wont be HD, so your HD cam is pretty much worthless without being able to have a solid backup. If they are going to bring out Blu Ray recorders sometime soon, will be different but they just barely put out the players. The recorders are still years off.
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we can burn blu ray all day long....
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11054
but I agree tape is still tits for archive...
the ssd recorders are baddass for some things... maybe filming real estate to sell or interior design.. thats stuff that you can film for a client and throw it up no editing what so ever just some in and outs...
but I am so fearfull of loosing paid content... not to think of stuff like children...
example
I had a miniDV tape that I had both my kids birth on.. one from 04 and one from 06 I figure I use the same tape it's easier to keep track of for archive... well long story short I was cleaning out my office one day had my rack of MINIDV tapes out and my son then 2.5 years old snagged that tape and dropped it from the balcony breaking it in half... devistated as I was I found sony's place for all their high end stuff... sent the tape.. for 35 dollars they fixed the tape then copied it on a backup for me sent it back to me.. now I have 2 copies... although it was my mistake for not making a copy of that miniDV right away and putting it in a safe deposit box and I could have paid dearly for my mistake it was fixable.. they have been fixing film for years... cuting splicing you name it....
now lets just say I got that backed up on a dvd.. and it gets cracked somehow in an earthquake.. or somehow there is an electrical spike and it fries the harddrive that it's on... or lets say 5 years from now computers are away from ntsf and fat32 and osxexteded and nothing is able to read it... it just scares me.... it's too new...
on a side note... one of the baddest cameras ive seen was red... but here is my question that I asked everyone at the red booth this year during NAB
"if all TV's can display is 1080 what is the point of shooting in 5k?"
tv's and broadcast are 720,1080 i and P still ... I have not seen a 5k tv fuck even a 2k tv
for anyone not aware of red.. go watch some footage
www.red.com