Re: Fire wire shoot

John, that's great. I wish I could have a few decks in house. But, I'm just a small, one-man company. I only edit what I shoot, no outside clients only the agencies and corporate clients I have. I guess, I'm just between a rock and a hard place. Margins are thin and I have to really justify any large expenses.

I was just chatting with a friend who owns a medium size production company. I was asking about doing a layoff to HDCam for me. He doesn't own an HDCAM deck either. He says almost all footage brought in to his house is on file formats of HD and especially in RED right now. Tape is going away really fast.

Even distribution. Some of our local stations are accepting spot directly uploaded to their servers, no more tape at all. That goes for cable too. I exclusively send spots to Comcast by FTP. It's all changing pretty darn fast right now.

Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
www.santellaproductions.com