Honestly I think you may be correct: recording onto a small daily drive and=
backing it up would meet most of our needs.
The 722/744 + Firewire option is mostly, I take it, for production set soun=
d
engineers who absolutely must not lose a take, and who need to deliver many=
copies of the days work to various post-production people. For example, the=
y
might record both the HD and CF for their own needs (one is the backup), an=
d
make an audio DVD for immediate delivery to the guys who assemble the daily=
rushes for the director to view that night or the next morning. Other copie=
s
go (via networking) each night to the post-production facility for use by
the editor and sound editor in constructing the final sound track.
But for field recordists, especially those who aren't so paranoid about los=
s
as to demand three copies of everything, the 702 with a daily backup might=
be the way to go. That really leaves you only one copy of your work, so if=
you lose a DVD or if the CF card manages to fail for some reason, you need=
to get it again. From my own point of view I like being outdoors, and don't=
mind the possibility of losing a drive and all my recordings thereon. Other=
s
who record more important stuff than I do will want two field copies AND a=
daily backup when they get back to camp.
The only benefit I see to the 722 over the 702 is two in-the-field copies
are easily made with no extra equipment.
One other thing, the firewire port will not power an external firewire DVD=
while running on lithium batteries (8.3 volts or less). It should have
enough to power an external hard drive (laptop variety only) as a backup,
but a DVD writer needs a 12v supply to the recorder before the firewire por=
t
will power the writer. Or use an externally powered writer.
And if you want to use the firewire port you need to send the recorder to a=
service center for a hardware modification. Only those recorders
manufactured in the last few weeks are "V 2.0 Ready".
Bruce Wilson KF7K
http://science.uvsc.edu/wilson
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