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What format (codec) to deliver
Probably this is gone over somewhere on a forum but I can’t find it.
We are currently shooting with HD Tape cameras. Sony HDcam and Panasonic HD Varicam. We are freelance shooters so at the end of the day we hand the field producers, or segment directors, or agency guy some tapes. Then they leave…
They take the tapes and edit them in some cases on Adobe Premiere
Now we are considering purchase of the RED, Silicon Imaging, Vision research, type cameras. Where the output is on hard disks. So at the end of the day (or later that evening) we (expect/hope)to copy the images to a portable firewire drive, and send or deliver (fedex) the drive to the producer.
We see one cool advantage to this. While the drive is in transit we still have the original images on our computer so the footage can’t get lost on the way back to their facility. These cameras make very nice images which use some wavelet technology and look pretty good from the original codec. Otherwise we are not too sure how producers will feel about this, or how much difficulty this presents for us. So several related questions:
1. What are the likely workflows and digital format (codec) outputs we are going to need to put on the producers drives? For Adobe PRemiere and After Effects.
remember that our clients do not have any special software, like wavelet compression based programs.
2. Will this require a lot of rendering time and our ownership of a really high end computer with Gflops of drive space??? Like what?
3. About how many minutes per gig, are we going to be able to fit on the portable firewire drive that we send? (so we can see how this compares with sending tape: HD tape @ about $50 per 30min usual 2 hrs per day = $200 as opposed to loaning drives(which cost?) to the producer and paying fedex both ways.)
4. Can the producer/post house easily make a backup on HD tape of pieces they like but do not want in the show for their library.
5. Will this be appealing to Producers. why or why not?
Thanks for your help!
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