Arnie Schlissel
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[Mandy Mastromanico] “Also, when production companies give me estimates for such a thing, should I assume they are shooting in HD?”
Assume nothing that’s not written down in the bid.
If the bid does not specifically state that it’s HD, the odds are that it will not be. If you don’t specify HD when you bid out the job, don’t expect production companies to bid on shooting HD.
And don’t forget to specify what flavor of HD you want, or you may wind up with extra costs down the line when you need to convert what was shot to what needs to be delivered.
[Mandy Mastromanico] “s it necessary to shoot in HD?”
Look at your calendar. It’s the 21st century, the 3rd millennium. HD is no longer sometime in the future, it’s on TV now.
If you don’t shoot in HD, you’ll be limiting your market & reducing the value of your show.
It’s much easier to make a really good downconvert for those markets that are not yet broadcasting HD than it is to make a really good upconvert for those that already do.
[Mandy Mastromanico] “Does it add to the cost?”
Rest assured, the production company will be very quick to charge you more for shooting in HD, even though it may not really cost them more. After all, they’re delivering more pixels!
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[stewart charles] “when I tryed it I was told it is not possible to log and capture proress over fire wire.”
That’s correct. Drives me nuts.
If you want to be able to properly log your HDV tapes, you need to use a deck with RS-422 serial control and SDI or HDMI output and connect it to a capture card with SDI or HDMI input.
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You have to use firewire HDV deck control to use the HDV to ProRes preset.
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If you have Photoshop Extended, you can paint out the scratches there. Otherwise, I’d use Shake.
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300 MB/sec should be fine for uncompressed HD. Infiniband is a very fast connection, much faster than eSATA with port multiplication.
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[Martijn Scholte] “i wonder if there is an automated way of creating such a wall from a folder with let’s say 3000 shots in there so we can print that and put it on a wall. “
This is what assistant editors are for.
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I happen to have that same Areca RAID card that comes with the SansDigital. You cannot compare it to the Firmtek eSATA card. The Areca does much more, and does it quite well.
If you’re looking for the best, most flexible SATA RAID solution for PCI-X, the Areca card is it.
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[Karlis Jaunzems] “I need to compress it with h.264 compression so it would fit into DVD9 disk but to keep the 5.1 sound in it”
If you’re trying to make a standard DVD, then h.264 is not compatible. You need to use MPEG2.
https://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#2.14
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[David Roth Weiss] “So, you get caught and get sentenced to 20-years…”
During which time the government will provide you with free health care. So it’s win-win!
Arnie
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