Shooting video, especially with consumer equipment, is always a dicey proposition:

"The PA mixer won't give us a feed from the console"

"I forgot to charge the batteries"

"Where are the spare tapes"

"I don't have an adapter for that"

"We forgot the tripod"

"I don't know how to adjust that; it's in a setup menu somewhere"

"I don't know where he went. Can you shoot until he gets back?"

ACK! No wonder we gave up on it...

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Later,

Pat