Fred Jodry
Forum Replies Created
-
You don`t have to be afraid of RAID 0 editing as long as you back- up and restore properly every now and then. Differently though, if you blow- up a live event take because your (usually the drives but occasionally something else) hardware fails, then that is a different matter. Remember that if you have to get running again quickly, then have labelled sets of spare drives and other hardware ready to swap in.
-
The sensor is the main feature of the camera although all the rest matters! Whether you buy the old standard 4:3 aspect ratio type, now a feature of the Alexa Plus not most new models, or whether you consider the wide aspect ratio type as the center of your needs, it is permanent. It is more important to develop new programs, new markets, new programming consortiums or bundles, so that you can save the jobs and wallets of others as you help your own, and so on. Do you have a work- flow that gives you live programming too? Do you have options that let you put passable still shots into publishing too? I think of it somewhat like film. When you buy a film stock that has a rating of say, ISO 200, it means that that is the MAXIMUM (That`s actual) not minimum amount of light and latent image needed to develop maximum quality. Accordingly, this is one of the parameters you mean to sensibly and sometimes fully fill and describe your rectangle. Your camera team`s job is to come back with 19 hours a day, most days, of something that fills the public`s needs and appreciations. For this you may find yourself rich. A camera upgrade out of a present Alexa might be no part of this. Look at your real opportunities.
-
Jack, I won`t go into the finest points but I will help you with a few basics. For burning, if you need to, a “CPU” that has somewhat less speed than a playback one`s should still prove successful and satisfying. Recording takes more speed than playback. Editing and rendering should have plenty more. It`s a good idea to burn data not player- bootable discs during stages of your creation, but some people use hard drives, tapes, or other swappable storage for this. Get new high- grade burners like Pioneers, which are duplicator grade and convenience!, not ASUSes for your outfitting, (LGs would be OK), and a good selection of different types of blank discs. If you`ve ever done regular photograpy, you start by picking up a highest quality negative and aim at making your best prints out of it before you grab your already made negatives and full resources, and aim at this center from both creative and finished ends as well. In video it can be the same. Don`t try to get best results out of poor originals as a first step. This is to fly through the overcast blind. You will of course need terrific software. Final process, not data- style software is always more involved. I use some versions of Puppy Linux to comparatively monitor and guide the capabilities of my stages of production and playback software. You`ll still have to explore how to use Puppy, and use an editing- speed computer to use it though, even on playback. Be ready to both produce and market your programming too; burning it is only a single stage or two in the workflow.
-
Whatever hard drives you are using you can have them tested periodically at Drive Solutions in California.
-
Answer,
Make a copy of your “Doc” where a fade of what is coming next in the picture ghosts in maybe 6 seconds before the synchronized main one. Then, as you are reading your script, whether practice or a wrap, hold a big 3- inch ball bearing on your script page so you can see the picture, even though small and upside down. Of course there`s a teleprompter if you are in the studio. -
Thanks Bill, between your paragraphs and mine we have listed some dos and do nots. So far, my converter to mention again, is my brain and my keyboard (and mouse) with slightly too little in- between. Hopefully there`s something in software between VLC Player which is detrimental and free, and Telestream Episode which is $500 +. This is horrible. It is time to turn off the computer and make live plays!
-
My pair of OWC Sata 3.0 SSDs (Now there are Sata 6es) have been keeping their promise from the word, “Go!”. Put some of these in your own storage or the one you are building or getting, and you are rolling.
i haven`t given mine the under 50 degrees Fahrenheit/ 9 degrees Centigrade test, that many magnetic hard drives fail, yet, so hold your breath. -
Jesse and others, here`s little bit of quick look- up in printed form which while not as general (wide) and helpful as the above, will nonetheless fit in your pocket.
Step 0, (preparation), Preset your printer to print maybe 8 pages per page, single sided, then grab the following files from ARRI:
1. “Alexa User Manual Sup (supplement) 6.1”
2. “Alexa Pocket Guide Sup 6.1”
3. “ARRI MetaExtract_releasenotes.pdf”
Note: The first two print out to maybe 30 to 60 pages each. The PDF in number 3 prints out to 6 useful pages. I had found a version that I seem to recall was around the same number of pages as the other 2 manuals. Print out this stuff then get scissoring and glueing. Oldest
areas of this Forum topic also are loaded with things to print then
pencil through. -
Without going into contrasts and comparisons to the other softwares I will emphatically condemn VLC. This is why: It is designed for many types of good conversions which are then ready to be broadcasted over the internet easily. So far, so good. Then the maker, editor, and users of these files all alike, discover that the files, labels, batches, and folders have all been renamed or relabelled so as to be ambiguous and mistakable, or loseable by those who would store or reuse them. Correctly guessing file and format types out of the blue and renaming them or using special software sometimes repairs things but this is ridiculous. When asked by the open- source community to help them design a utility like VLC, Microsoft hoodwinked them out of designing something useful.
-
If you can run the data continuously, then record your whole production day in one continuous swoop, then make a bump down to a daily for the first edit, then hit the function, AUTOSPACING immediately.
Oppositely, you can record each segment, and have someone pencil notes of anything that pertains, just like film.
Just like film, make sure you don`t take a full session of good pictures with unchecked out of control sound.
Your question has many different answers since the aiding software tools like GlueTools, different hardware, and your employed staff, can vary. Just show us the results!