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Need To Rent HVX200 or HPX170 for Monday Morning - $100 If you're looking to make some extra money with your camera during a time you're not shooting, this should be a good offer. We're a news operation shooting weekly public-affairs shows, and need to rent an HVX or HPX for one morning...

If you're looking to make a little extra money with your camera every week when it's not in use, I hope we can work together. We're a news operation shooting weekly public-affairs shows in Manhattan, and we need to rent an additional camera for one morning every week. Your camera would be used...

It seems to be the only netbook on the market with ExpressCard. Has anyone tried it for offloading footage? How long does it take for a 16gb P2 card?

I'm looking into renting an HVX or HPX in NYC on a weekly basis, to serve as the 3rd camera during a news shoot. The camera would be handled by a professional videographer on a tripod at all times. We'd shoot for an hour, and use the camera for a total of 3-4 hours. If you're interested...

There is no question that the world of small notebook computers has gotten quite a lot larger in the past 6 months. Asus, MSI -- even Dell is getting into the game. With so many cheap, lightweight, small notebooks with very long battery life *and* very short boot-up times, there'd seem to be...

I've been searching around and can't find a good answer anywhere. We're doing an SD multi-camera shoot on a regular basis, and need external monitors for producers to set framing of the shots, alone. It'd cost us $50/shoot to rent four monitors each time, but we've got plenty of computer (VGA...

I'm producing a 4-camera HVX shoot (3 stationary, 1 jib) this week. We edit with Avid, but the studio we're working with typically captures direct to hard disk with FCP laptops when using HVXs, to reduce costs of renting P2s. What are the options for direct capture in FCP and edit in Avid, or...

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I'm sending someone to make a very important presentation in a couple weeks, and need to send him with the best-possible equipment to make a presentation of a few of our promos/trailers. They're SD, 4:3 content. I could send him with any kind of file or DVD. The equipment I send him with needs...

I was hoping to use my favorite old laptop, which has seen better days, as a field PC to rip P2 cards during ENG sessions. We're recording in SD, so have 32 minutes' recording time per card, but I'd like the rip speed to be under 16 minutes. Unfortunately, in our first attempt using the PCMCIA...