Originally Posted by bm bradley

HDV gets a bad rap for clarity and skanks etc. to be real honest I haven't seen any of those issues with the HDV we've been shooting.

on the Panisonic, the file size is 1 gig per minute. if you don't mind that pick up the HDV redshoe is selling. great cam. great price. used it a few times myself.

the sony's shoot a compressed file 'm2t' which is much smaller however it's good enough for web based clients. it's like 30 min at 8 gig or something.

if I was going to shoot dvd and TV stuff I would use a pro camera. those systems are about 25K. real overkill for blowjobs.

hit redshoe with an email and maybe he can show you some samples after the big ass render is done. that's another issue with HDV, the render time. with a quad core it's about 11 min for 1 min I think. don't even waste time with anything less than a quad with 4-8 gig of ram.

and I think you can render 2-3 instances at a time with no increase of processing time.

-bmb