A tapeless workflow is the growing choice that will eventually be the only choice, as most manufacturers have stopped making tape-based cameras. If you're used to walking away from a shoot with tapes in hand and have concerns about a digital workflow like P2 (or Red, SxS cards, etc.), let this thought put you at ease: the big difference is that instead of leaving with a handful of tapes, you can walk away from our shoots with a single, palm-sized hard drive that fits in your pocket. If you're not at the shoot, we can Fed Ex the drive to you. And unlike tapes, if it happens to get lost or damaged, we can keep a back-up for you for 60 days. Sound good? It gets even better.

P2 technology is the same technology as SD cards used in still cameras. Each shot is recorded as a seperate file. A big advantage is that there is no such thing as a dropped frame in P2. P2 cards are reliable, even under the worst weather conditions. Another production advantage is that you can quickly and easily review any shot, and then get back to work, without time lost rewinded and forwarding tapes (and the wear and tear that puts on tape-heads).

The P2 advantages in post-production include time saved logging footage. Instead of capturing footage from a tape in real-time, simply import the P2 files into your editing system in a fraction of that time. The files are already separated into individual shots, which you can then rename if you wish. On a long, complex shoot, you can assign metadata information to shots, such as keywords, which can help you quickly look up a shot later when you search by keyword, shoot date, or other identifiers.