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Offline RT- Recompress or Create Offline?
I have 130 hours of DV footage for a documentary that I have shot and while digitizing tape 100 my 1.3TB of hard drive space is already close to full. My editor decided for us to go full offline RT till the final cut for online, my question is how? I already have 100 hours of DV footage on my drives in full DV rez and according to my research I have found conflicting opinions of converting DV footage into offline RT. In previous projects, I had issues capturing directly into FCP in offline RT mode, perhaps because I was digitizing 24PA footage with pulldown removal.
Noak Kadner of 2pop.com suggested:
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I’ll throw in my advice but it’s just my opinion. There are a million ways to approach a doco but capturing every frame isn’t one of them.
Make backup dubs of your tapes.
While you’re doing that, bake in some window burns to VHS.
Lock yourselves in a motel room till you cull your footage down to a reasonable 30-50 hours. You can always go back to the originals and find weird shots later. You do not want to start a doco with 130 hours of raw footage. That smacks of serious lack of vision or commitment. Somebody make some decisions.Media Manager is the surest possible way to destroy your group’s hard work. Media Manager is lousy programming. It is totally bogus. If it worked, it wouldn’t be this huge black hole of unsuredness; you wouldn’t asking these questions. Up rezzing or offlining should be elegant and flawless processes. They are not. And yet there are those among us who use it every day. Go figure. It ain’t worth the risk unless you have3 time to hone the procedures on practice material.
Hopefully it got fixed in FCP5 but we have heard of no miracles.
bogiesan
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