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  • mobile two-seat workflow

    Posted by Jan Schulz on April 16, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Hi there,
    we’re investigating the possibilities of a highly mobile two editor setup.
    Is there any storage-sharing solution that’s not dependant on rack space and fibrechannel?

    Current setup is planned like this:
    5 dvcprohd tape camcorders
    1 dvcprohd vtr (cameras will also be abused for ingesting)
    2 mbpros for ingesting via FW
    2 mbpros for editing

    We need to upload edited footage every night via sat to an ftp-server. Both editors need access to the same footage as soon as it is ingested. Our “non shared”-idea was to use esata drives on each mbpro. As soon as a tape is ingested it gets copied to both editing-mbpros via gbit-ethernet. This could possibly be automated with retrospect or similar software.

    Of course, we’d prefer a proper shared storage solution if it exists. If not, I’d still be thankful for any workflow improvements you can think of!
    cheers
    Jan

    Jan Schulz replied 18 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Bob Flood

    April 16, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    Hi

    check this out

    https://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=138

    “I like video because its so fast!”

    Bob Flood
    Greer & Associates, Inc.

  • David Roth weiss

    April 16, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    [Jan Schulz] “We need to upload edited footage every night via sat to an ftp-server.”

    This seems to be the weak link. Upload of several gigabytes of data takes quite a while. How do you intend to accomplish this on the road?

    David Roth Weiss
    Director/Editor
    David Weiss Productions, Inc.
    Los Angeles

    POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

    A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

  • Jan Schulz

    April 16, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    [David Roth Weiss] “[Jan Schulz] “We need to upload edited footage every night via sat to an ftp-server.”

    This seems to be the weak link. Upload of several gigabytes of data takes quite a while. How do you intend to accomplish this on the road?”

    This really is one of the weak spots. I haven’t been into the delivery part myself (some other guy’s problem for now). What I know is:
    We deliver something like 5-10 minutes daily in h264. There’s some testing to be done but I think we’re ending up with something with 0.8 – 1.6 Gbyte (note: not tested until now). Last year we had some kind of inmarsat uplink and i think it’s going to be something similar again. That thing is horribly slow, so we might need to spend each night uploading ’til dawn. Unless we manage to find a file based, much faster solution.

  • Jan Schulz

    April 16, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    [Bob Flood] “check this out

    ” target=”_blank”>https://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=138″

    Cool!
    But I don’t really think i can propose it with peace of mind. It’d definately be worth it, if we would do jobs like this all the time. But for two weeks a year 10k Euro is way too expensive. But nice to know such toys are out there… who knows 😀

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