Originally Posted by vidvicious

Amen I thought I was the only one that went thru that ...

Three weeks ago I shot with the Z1U and yes it took 8 hours to capture, cut and render a 25 min piece!!!! To top it all off my client had to go out and buy the Cineform Codec just to view the F%$# thing !

Hense my reason for trying out different cameras.

I totally agree this camera would be over kill .. However the client in questionthat bought this gear, wants me shooting for DVD release and isn't conserned with web .. With that said, My main client base is Web.