Delivering HD

take2visualmedia

take2visualmedia

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I am very close to buying an HVX200. Up to this point I have shot on the SDX900, DVX100a, and Sony HVRZ1U...not to mention countless BetaSP.

I do a lot of shooting for the national cable outlets as well as clients who edit elsewhere. To this point I have just handed them a tape after the shoot. How do you go about delivering DVCPro50 or HD content from the P2?
 
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mcvideo said:
ic andrew kramers work on your intro reel.
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A more accurate way to word that would be "ic that you've learned a thing or two from andrew kramer" :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG) Although I'm not sure what specifically you are referring to, I can only guess the open title?

Anyway my original question still stands....
 
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You can drop $$$$$ for DVCPROHD Deck if you really want to give them a tape.

I don't suggest handing off p2 cards, horror stories all around from photogs who don't get them back.

What I do is add a cost onto my bill that accounts for a hard drive, and time to dump footage onto it via laptop in the field. Just make sure to find out if the client needs PC or Mac formatted drives.
 
I do the same, 7200 RPM, around 100 GB, USB for Mac or PC, the connection is not an issue unless your computer or your client's do not handle one of those.
(USB = 480 MBPS, FireWire = 400 MBPS, Firewire B = 800 MBPS)
Usually I send the HD to my client.
 
Just curious- this question often comes up and I was wondering why it is seldom
suggested to hand them a DVC Pro HD file on a DVD or Blu Ray disc. Some problem with it? Inadequate capacity?
 
if I have regular clients they buy a harddisk from me and they bring me the harddrive when starting a project and I give it back when finish it.
 
It all depends. If you are delivering footage, you do so on HDD. I generally keep a back-up for 30 days. If you are delivering a final master, almost nobody will take a DVCproHD tape for an HD master. You will need to have it dubbed to HDCAM or HD-D5, I do it regularly.



ash =o)
 
We had been dubbing a dual layer DVD for each 8 gig card. We charge $25 per DVD which is barely worth our time, but still OK.

More often now, we transfer to their computer after filling each card and wile tearing down. Once in a while we will sell a new portable drive to the client. Just depends what works for them.
 
I have a number of OTG drives in varying capacities 60 gb up to 230 GB. I copy card volumes over to a suitable drive and lend it to the client. I generally add a charge of 50.00 for this, and its worked out ok for me.
 
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