not SDHC, not P2, not SxS, not MS, but HDV on HDD.

I’ve been shopping for a new camcorder. Not so much for me, though. IEBA Communications already has an HDTV arsenal that is based around the Sony FX1/Z1u camcorders (pictured here). I’ve been shooting HD with numerous camcorders for corporate and event video work since 2003. I’ve shot 720 and 1080. I’ve shot on flash media, and tape. I’ve recorded to two different external hard drive recorders. I’ve edited this footage and shown it to clients. The problem isn’t with my client’s interest. The problem is turning it around as fast as possible. Specifically- corporate work that requires an entire day’s worth of presentations to be available compressed and streaming… the same day. They can relent and accept SD (but the widescreen HD that I made for them was so very impressive). But no matter what format a camcorder shoots this stuff in it’s not perfect for BOTH places it has to go:

1) in our data pool for possible editing later, 2) on the web for e-learning.

The former loves DV. The latter loves Flash. Those two, disparate solutions don’t exist in one camcorder… Read More…