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Eric Magray

Steel Member
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.
 

the_SD_local

I own SR.
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.
 

the_SD_local

I own SR.
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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...

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3 x 100gb DVCPROHD drives and 1 x CitiDisk 120gb drive.

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WD terrabyte dump drive.
 
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