Comments on: HDV vs AVCHD http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/30/hdv-vs-avchd/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:02:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Kevin http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/30/hdv-vs-avchd/#comment-4228 Kevin Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:18:48 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/30/hdv-vs-avchd/#comment-4228 Yeah, archive storage is one of the two main reason the exisitng harddrive formats (Panasonic's P2 and Sony's XDCam) are catching on pretty slowly. If you need to archive things for very long periods of time (years, if not decades) like news channels and productions houses do, then tape is still the way to go. Or, if you don't care about saving the camera master and you just want the final project archived, then you could always shoot on a hdd based camera and archive to tape. Optical isn't a great option for archiving either because the storage capacity is so small and no one really knows how long dvdr/rw/bluray/hddvd/whateverelseisnext/ discs will actually last. But as far as the actually work flow goes, hdd cameras are great. Whenever I film live sports games we always have a guy run around with a xdcam or p2 camera shooting b-roll shots for the opening and closings, then he runs back to the truck they plug the drive in and edit the opening/closing reels right there. Of course, you can still do that same process using linear tape editing... but that's not nearly as fun :) Yeah, archive storage is one of the two main reason the exisitng harddrive formats (Panasonic’s P2 and Sony’s XDCam) are catching on pretty slowly. If you need to archive things for very long periods of time (years, if not decades) like news channels and productions houses do, then tape is still the way to go. Or, if you don’t care about saving the camera master and you just want the final project archived, then you could always shoot on a hdd based camera and archive to tape. Optical isn’t a great option for archiving either because the storage capacity is so small and no one really knows how long dvdr/rw/bluray/hddvd/whateverelseisnext/ discs will actually last.

But as far as the actually work flow goes, hdd cameras are great. Whenever I film live sports games we always have a guy run around with a xdcam or p2 camera shooting b-roll shots for the opening and closings, then he runs back to the truck they plug the drive in and edit the opening/closing reels right there.

Of course, you can still do that same process using linear tape editing… but that’s not nearly as fun :)

]]> By: Eugenia http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/30/hdv-vs-avchd/#comment-4218 Eugenia Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:57:17 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/30/hdv-vs-avchd/#comment-4218 RAID hard drives, 500 GB each, duplicated data. Don't bother with optical media. RAID hard drives, 500 GB each, duplicated data. Don’t bother with optical media.

]]> By: Richard http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/30/hdv-vs-avchd/#comment-4215 Richard Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:07:07 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/30/hdv-vs-avchd/#comment-4215 How to archieve the Videos though? I guess Tapes will last a long time, and you wont even need any processing. Sure you can burn your content on DVD(+/-)(RW/R/RAM), but there are a lot of brands that are particularly bad when it comes to long term durability. How to archieve the Videos though? I guess Tapes will last a long time, and you wont even need any processing. Sure you can burn your content on DVD(+/-)(RW/R/RAM), but there are a lot of brands that are particularly bad when it comes to long term durability.

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