i was looking into getting an hd cam. i mean if im gonna save up a ton of money why not go all out and get an hd cam and a comp that can handle the load? think the sony hdr-hd5 or hd7 is a good choice? i like the hi def in a small package, the touchscreen spot focus is a also a plus. and sony vegas works perfectly with the compression of mpeg-2 hd video from all their sony cams.
I was filming some seminar the other day with a couple buddies and we were using 2 of the new Panasonic HD cams straight to 100gb fire drives. Each drive held about an hour and a half of footage and we had 4 of them so while they were filming on 2 of them I was dumping all the footy onto a couple external terrabyte drives hooked up to a couple Powerbooks waiting for files.
We were shooting REAL HD not compressed HD on cassettes. It was quite the setup.
Yeeeeaaaa those were them we had those exact two... one with a directional mic and the other just had straight audio cable plugged into it from the sound board. They had 2 slots in the back of the cam for huge ass memory cards too I forget how many gigs but we used these to record on instead...
3 x 100gb DVCPROHD drives and 1 x CitiDisk 120gb drive.