I just had to report this to all the Sony Cinealta nerds.
I was doing a 2-day shoot last week for a well known network. Was using, yet again, the F3 with a Blade (wish it was an Ody 7Q but oh well). $100/hour, producers stressed, huge time crunch, and some of it was live streaming to who knows how many people, the rest was high-end interview stuff of a ton of TV personalities. B-cam was someone with a Canon SLR set-up with lots of expensive add-ons and another 2nd unit A-cam was a C100.
With a big TV producer standing, waiting for the first morning shoot, sound shows up and couldn't figure out how to jam timecode on the Canon for 10 minutes. I said I would A-cam that particular piece and showed him my TC port and he was very happy, as was the producing team. C100 team goes to set up the big interview area later and guess what? No SDI for the just-rented monitor. I show them a choice of SDI's.
Post had to transcode and turn around huge loads of footage within a day or less. They couldn't believe I was handing over ready-to-go Prores. I told them I was also automatically backing up everything to xdcam just in case they lose something. Smiles all around.
THEN it's morning of day two. B-cam (Canon 5D or 7D) shuts down. He got it working for a minute and it shut down again. New batteries and nothing. Rebooting, etc.. it was simply dead. 25year vetern producer walks up to me and says "Sony just works, doesn't it?" I said, "Yep... $20,000+ worth of gear verse $3000... you get what you pay for."
Two more gigs were booked from these guys by the close of 2nd day.
I was doing a 2-day shoot last week for a well known network. Was using, yet again, the F3 with a Blade (wish it was an Ody 7Q but oh well). $100/hour, producers stressed, huge time crunch, and some of it was live streaming to who knows how many people, the rest was high-end interview stuff of a ton of TV personalities. B-cam was someone with a Canon SLR set-up with lots of expensive add-ons and another 2nd unit A-cam was a C100.
With a big TV producer standing, waiting for the first morning shoot, sound shows up and couldn't figure out how to jam timecode on the Canon for 10 minutes. I said I would A-cam that particular piece and showed him my TC port and he was very happy, as was the producing team. C100 team goes to set up the big interview area later and guess what? No SDI for the just-rented monitor. I show them a choice of SDI's.
Post had to transcode and turn around huge loads of footage within a day or less. They couldn't believe I was handing over ready-to-go Prores. I told them I was also automatically backing up everything to xdcam just in case they lose something. Smiles all around.
THEN it's morning of day two. B-cam (Canon 5D or 7D) shuts down. He got it working for a minute and it shut down again. New batteries and nothing. Rebooting, etc.. it was simply dead. 25year vetern producer walks up to me and says "Sony just works, doesn't it?" I said, "Yep... $20,000+ worth of gear verse $3000... you get what you pay for."
Two more gigs were booked from these guys by the close of 2nd day.
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