Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

Well I can say this. When I switched from filming adult movies and custom web content from SD to HDV- which is mostly what I use now- the amount of lights I needed to set up and the amount of storage space, editing,rendering & encoding time more than doubled. It also required a large investment in new computers, hard drives and software. And now most clients just expect at least HDV shot content, but aren't willing to pay that much extra for it, if anything at all because hdv became the new baseline for companies that want to market their footage as hi-def.

I can't imagine cranking out as many scenes as I do now for the same money if I have to start filming the same type of scenes that I do now in uncompressed HD and make another large investment in equipment and software and accessories.

So while I love to stay on top of technology, and think of this as an opportunity; I also look at it as a major pain in the ass because it will take that much more work and time to produce a scene or a movie for pretty much the same return.