As a narrative filmmaker with 16mm shooting experience I do not have a problem with 10 minute run times on the card, that would be no different than a roll of film. Offloading a memory card to a hard drive then erasing it is nothing new, I do that with my digital still camera all the time. As for costs, the price per Gb of standard 3.5" IDE hard drives, comparable if not cheaper than camera original tape both mini dv and certainly dvcpro-hd.
Take a generic 5.25" firewire/usb-2 case and put a 3.5" hot swap chassis in it. Buy Hard drive in the needed quantity for a given shoot as you would raw tape stock including the required hot swap trays (cheap). Back up to drive using whichever method you prefer, direct from camera, laptop, portable card reader drive. But treat this drive as camera original tape. view the footage once or twice at your capture workstation as you would have to work with tape then dump your selects to your work drives. Put your masters back on the shelf like you would with tape.
The up side is that your dvc-pro-hd "deck" costs less than $100, your tape is totally non-linear, and you can always edit directly from this drive if you choose.
For double redundency at 10 cents a Gb its hard to beat dvd in data format, yeah it takes time, but how much time and effort do you have tied up in aquiring the footage in the first place.
As for the all day wedding/event type shoots, that is what the mini-dv tape is for. I don't know what these jobs pay in your area, but in mine they hardly justify decent dv let alone a full blown hd workfolw :thumbsup:
Take a generic 5.25" firewire/usb-2 case and put a 3.5" hot swap chassis in it. Buy Hard drive in the needed quantity for a given shoot as you would raw tape stock including the required hot swap trays (cheap). Back up to drive using whichever method you prefer, direct from camera, laptop, portable card reader drive. But treat this drive as camera original tape. view the footage once or twice at your capture workstation as you would have to work with tape then dump your selects to your work drives. Put your masters back on the shelf like you would with tape.
The up side is that your dvc-pro-hd "deck" costs less than $100, your tape is totally non-linear, and you can always edit directly from this drive if you choose.
For double redundency at 10 cents a Gb its hard to beat dvd in data format, yeah it takes time, but how much time and effort do you have tied up in aquiring the footage in the first place.
As for the all day wedding/event type shoots, that is what the mini-dv tape is for. I don't know what these jobs pay in your area, but in mine they hardly justify decent dv let alone a full blown hd workfolw :thumbsup:
