Camera advice needed

Hi all
I'm shooting a short film soon and I'm hiring in a camera. I was going to go with the Canon XL1-s, but the hire company have a few HD cameras in now, the Sony HVR-A1E, Sony FX1 and Sony HDV-Z1E. Should I go for a HD over the 'standard' definition camera? I'm using FCP4 HD, G5 dual 1.8 2GB RAM and a 300GB Firewire Hard drive.
I'd appreciate any advice.
Regards
Stephen Bennett

No...stick with DV. First off, HDV requires FCP 5. Secondly, it is debatable whether HDV is HD at all:
#34 - HDV is not HD
Shane's Stock Answer #34:
Many many people buy HDV cameras thinking that they are getting an HD camera. This is not the case, for HDV is not HD. It has the same dimensions of HD, 1440x1080i, but it is HIGHLY compressed MPEG-2, and suffers from bad artifacts when fast action is being filmed.
Is HDV an improvement over miniDV? No. It increases resolution and at the same time, increases compression, so, pixel for pixel you have worse quality, but you do have a lot more pixels. Resolution in itself does not = picture quality. You could blow up VHS to HD resolution, but the quality would be terrible, even though it has a high resolution.
HDV is NOT considered a pro format and is at best a high end home movie camera.
Shane

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I then installed Rome Total War and played for about 2 hours and had one black screen crash
Great isn't it (although not without the occasional crash)
Would you say it's better but not there yet ? or the same ?
I thought the same as Ibn Quote
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re your PSU, given youv'e got a less hungry Graphic Card, thought it was at worse marginal, have seen worse.
To investigate further it may be worth diconnecting one of your HD, maybe the 200gb for a time.
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All interesting stuff and you know about lots of gear there. But I can't imaging any of that stuff having use in the field. It's heavy. How would you power it. You'd scare all the wild life away. And the crew would laugh you off the set. Except the fruity loops part. Snacks are always good in the field. LOL
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@ Russ H
Yeah I thought of that too...
Just using the flatened verssion as a reference file that can be enabled and disapbled as necessary hoever like you pointed out that is "not ideal" AND would actually be pretty time consuming as I am dealing with
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But that may be the best soltuion of the not so great options I have in front of me...
@Meg The Dog
Thanks, and yes I will be doing all of that sans the assistant editor.
One of the largest issues is that I am not a FCPX expert so I can't do that...
AND the budget is a bit tight to hire a second editor for this job PLUS it is in Berlin (I am in Chicago)
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I agree that in an ideal situation your suggestion would be best if the budget allowed for it...
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