How many have moved to a tapeless workflow entirely?
 

If so, what cam and how are you archiving your footage?

We still shoot on tapes while waiting to skip 1-2 generations of cams.

We do not use the tapes as backups though, that would be no short of foolish!
Everything goes onto digital storage as soon as its shot, same or next day.

I no longer use tapes, my camera records 48mbps H.264 to solid state media. I believe most are shooting AVCHD now because of the low cost, but I believe a fair amount are still shooting HDV. I'm no longer using optical media because it doesn't make much sense with the price of inexpensive 2tb HDD's these days. Plus, HDD data has a much greater life expectancy than that of optical media.

I am assuming you use Sony EX. AVCHD seems to be the popular choice as you noted because of price point. The resources required to edit AVCHD are large now but CS5 from Adobe will change that.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/davtechtab...ne-technology/

Bump for this thread because I had the same question.

For those of you archiving on a hard drive, aren't you nervous about losing your content if the drive crashes? Using tape still seems much safer.

red, sony ex1, ex3, and some small harddrive cams for some quick bts etc

get drives to back stuff up, offload and remote store copies

I use multiple cloned HDD's for backup.

Most of my clients, as well as myself are tapeless now. Backups are usually done on multiple RAID1 drives plus BluRay;