High Definition is one of the newest technological advances when it comes to make movies. It has allowed people with small budgets to make great movies of pretty high quality. Below we’ve listed as many of the HD disadvantages that we can think of, hoping to make it easier to choose which format to shoot your movie on:
1. All the FILM makers who shoot their movies on FILM will all say this disadvantage to you when and if you decide to shoot on HD: “But it doesn’t look like film”. And this statement is not far from the truth at all. Of course there are add-ons that you can add onto your camera to get closer to that film cinematic look, but nothing on HD will look anything as good as it does on film.
2. Usually with HD, you shoot onto a HD, this at first seems great… No more tapes, no more stocks, no more memory cards, but what you must understand is that with more footage, the camera slows down. Like a computer, if you install loads and loads onto it, it will begin to slow down. Yes? It is the same with the camera, if you shoot more and more, it will slow down. Not only willl the camera slow down, but with this, the quality of your shooting will deter and you will be left with a slow camera shooting poor quality footage.
3. Again, with a camera that uses a hard drive, there have been a number of people in the past that have complained about their hard drives crashing and losing all the content on the hard drive. Imagine losing one whole day of footage. There is a lot of risk with using a hard drive to store your shot material.
Therefore, from this, I would say that if your budget only allows you to shoot using a high definition camcorder then I suggest you invest in one that uses tapes instead of a hard drive. This can dramatically lower the risk on your production.
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