Re: Freelancer work flow as an owner/operator of a HVX.

granted there are only certain clients that will bite on this, but I have had luck convincing a few clients who do their own post production, to purchase the P2 and/or external P2 Hard Drive. Just like them bringing their own tape stock and not paying for a marked up tape. Now again granted this agreement was also reached as a forward looking investment on their part and based on using the HPC2000 not the HVX200. If they are going to spend between $2000 to $7500 on P2 then they probably have the budget to just but the HVX200 themselves. Nevertheless I think for local clients with their own post production facilities, I think its not unreasonable to have the conversation with them to investigate their willingness to purchase their own aquizition media. For out of towners, I'm back to the drawing board of creating Hard Drive Dups but more than likely this means giving them the media after an overnight transfer. It'd be wonderful for my clients across the country if there was a super fast way of transferring them the 100 or so gigs for a full day's shoot. I think this might be a bit off topic though as it is to my knowledge not fiscally reasonable and probably not fast enough to be logistically reasonable.


Chris Baldwin
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