#Looking for Used Betacam
Greg,
Ah the joys of being an authorized dealer<g>
Unfortunately all of our equipment comes out of pocket. I am 99% sure we'll
pick up a 3000 unit before the winter. I'd love to have one just for the
archivial use. Until then we're stuck with our walls of tapes!
That's a nice feature to allow passthrough with the motors off.
My SP thoughts were mainly based on our unorthodoxed way of dumping to tape. We
often have animations that take an hour a frame to generate and when we dump to
tape sometimes our cuts and fades are not exactly what we'd like to see. With
the SP deck we can simply jump back to a particular sequence and dump overtop
of the pervious work. Flics just don't cut it for previews for our work, so it
would seem that a 3000 unit by itself would be a nightmare for us.
However on those jobs that we were confidently dumping final copy the lack of
preroll and postroll would be a gift from the Gods.
Paul
P.S. – We obviously envy your in house equipment options.<g>