Traveling Producers Hate to Digitize?
As a free-lance camera person, I’m always looking for new ways to help out traveling producers. Whether it is supplying time coded audio files or wireless video links for hand held b-roll, or accommodating any other special requests. While still shooting a great deal of tape on jobs, especially for out-of-town producers, some producers “walk away” with hard drives at the end of the day. For those traveling producers that still shoot tape - still the majority - it amazes me that they HAVEN’T been asking me to ship a hard drive at the end of the shoot so when they arrive back home they can go straight to edit. When shooting in DV, DVCAM, DVCPro50/HD, a great service I can provide would be digitizing services…a hard drive arriving in the morning FEDEX with Quicktime files ready for import.