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Iron Fist · 04-20-2009, 08:37 PM

Fiddy HD formats

tony286 · 04-20-2009, 09:20 PM

my friend is a fulltime mainstream videographer. Tv,news, weather channel. He still shoots about half of his assignments with a betacam. I read an article in a video mag, that what youtube showed was people really dont give a shit about hd. They care about interesting content. I have never had a member ask for hd and Ive been doing this 10 yrs this june. There are a few interesting hd cams coming on the horizon, Im thinking about upgrading not because I have to have hd.It's because there are no more sd cams.

stickyfingerz · 04-20-2009, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

SD or HDV makes no difference to me, it's the same rate per scene or project even though I have to use much more light for the HDV scenes and much longer rendering and video encoding times. Most of the expense of my scenes pays for the other elements, female models, male talent, lighting, locations, photography, makeup, costumes, props, agency fees etc, not the high definition format itself.

So Jim you have more time and money involved in shooting HD, plus a higher quality product than SD, but should charge the same?

billyb · 04-20-2009, 09:52 PM

Give your clients what they want, although sometimes you shoot a great looking scene and then you see it online and you wonder what happend to it?. I think unless your clients know how to process the scene it will look like crap! when it is streaming.

This is the downfall of HDV, not many people are shooting in HD, they are shooting in HDV.

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Iron Fist Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 23,400	Fiddy HD formats __________________ i like waffles

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tony286 lurker Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: atlanta Posts: 57,021	my friend is a fulltime mainstream videographer. Tv,news, weather channel. He still shoots about half of his assignments with a betacam. I read an article in a video mag, that what youtube showed was people really dont give a shit about hd. They care about interesting content. I have never had a member ask for hd and Ive been doing this 10 yrs this june. There are a few interesting hd cams coming on the horizon, Im thinking about upgrading not because I have to have hd.It's because there are no more sd cams.

04-20-2009, 09:52 PM	#54
billyb Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 184	Give your clients what they want, although sometimes you shoot a great looking scene and then you see it online and you wonder what happend to it?. I think unless your clients know how to process the scene it will look like crap! when it is streaming. This is the downfall of HDV, not many people are shooting in HD, they are shooting in HDV.