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

Yeah, i know it works as I tried it with two dissimilar firewire drives just to test the theory. I have a powerbook SATA rig coming soon as soon as supplies arrive to the dealer. And as far as it costing more than tape, you can get 300 Gig SATA drives for just over $100 at places like NewEgg. 300 gigs will get ya roughly 12.5 hours of 720p24 Native material (if my math is correct). So for just over $200 you can have 12.5 hours of material to your client and a back up sitting on your shelf. That can't be much more than tape. Hell, a box of tape for our SDX900 (dv50) camera runs about 100-120 bucks or so and that's only 5.5 hours maximum record time. If you apply these prices to DVCPRO HD tape, it's gotta be cheaper. Clients will most definitely be attracted to that. The biggest part of this whole situation is convincing them that this is an okay way to do it. Also, what happens if your client is editing on a PC and your drives are formatted for a mac? Lots of wrinkles to be ironed out.

Jeremy