Fred Jodry
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What does a computer do? Compute.
What does computing always take? Time.
You will always have troubles trying to mix live video and audio through a computer.
No matter what else you do, feed the cameras and audio through the mixer boards before the stuff hits a computer.
Now Michael, you have a better workflow than an expensive Alexa. Fred Jodry -
If two people trading time on a Mac Pro almost does the job how about two two monitors, two mice, two keyboards on the Mac Pro? Dedicate to your assistant his own work drive. Fred Jodry
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Run midi lights on the scene to let the acting fake hearing the sound. In the mixing section use a separate audio track or two to record the effect of the following. Have your audio booth play the voice into a monitor speaker in another room next to a room with a taking microphone or two. The monitor speaker can be inside a huge partly open (= partly closed) cardboard box. Aluminum sheets hung nearby sometimes help the rattling noises. Be sure to add the proper outdoor wind noises. Forget reverb.
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Joel, I would consider a pair of 120 GB SSD hard drives as practical for both JBOD (just a bunch of drives) as work drives, or as RAID 0 of the same drives. for regular (video taking) and regular editing purposes. I consider errors as already minimized for the money and work, when switching to good SSDs. Your typical high grade “250 GB” magnetic boot hard drive can get folders filled and erased on it for intermediate storage. By the way, save plenty of money for a backup, restore scheme. I tend to use 2-1/5 inch hard drives not 3-1/2 inch hard drives as a “slight imitation of SSDs”. Fred Jodry
raid 0+1 question, and looking for comments (please be nice) lol by, Joel Watson on Apr 29, 2012 at 9:19:51 am
Heya, I`m looking at doing my first raid which is not just a raid 0.
My old raid was 2x 600gb wd raptors,
-but now im looking at doing a raid 0+1 but i was thinking about doing a raid 0 with 2 120gb ssd’s and then raid 1 that with a 250gb 7200rpm drive or a 300gb 10,000rpm drive.
-Now my question is, would it be worth it, or would it just be a waste of time?
This is only an idea, cause if its not worth it, then I`ll most likely just do the 2x 120 ssd’s and do regular backups.cheers
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I definitely wouldn`t put any hard drives from Samsung or Seagate into my video editor. The lone Maxtor type listed would probably work well in spite of being affiliated to Seagate. My experience. Fred Jodry
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“So my recommendation would be: employ a few as freelancers, see if they fit, then make a decision later.” (Juris)
-but hire your choice soon enough and just as important, lay off your non- choices gracefully, and as soon, so that you don`t make one worn out new employee and a heap of brand- new enemies. Fred Jodry
I see plenty of good advice above. F. J. -
Ian, would some already made film prints help you? (Telecine ready). If you are in the New York City area then local pickup would be practical. Fred, educationalbroadcasting@hotmail.com
My class needs footage for practice…
by Ian Campbell on Mar 22, 2012 at 3:57:22 pmI’m teaching a little editing at the tail end of our intro film production class and I am finding a hard time locating any footage I can use for my students to work with. I don’t really have enough time for them to shoot stuff this year, so I need something flexible and relatively interesting.
I’ve been looking for a simple scene with dialogue that includes a master shot and a couple different angles and perhaps some cutaways. Most of the footage I find packaged for this purpose is not narrative (i.e. the Premiere classroom in a book dvd contains mostly stock footage and a single interview). Does anyone have a source for something like this, either online for download, youtube or dvd’s? Dailies, uncut raw footage from any source, special features, multicamera files, etc…
Thanks.
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Neil, I find that at the present, when designing an editor,that searching for the right SSD starts with looking at the 120 GB models first and planning how many of them at that size you`ll need to handle practical editing size and speed. Larger SSDs is second thought planning. One of the things only rarely discussed in this forum is that a lot of mistakes and breakdowns are really caused by not having strong data flow. I bought a couple of really good SSDs for the work drives of my strongest computer and find that the hard drive light emitting diode flickers rather dim because it lights when a data request is made and quits when the data request is done. Your tiered backup, restore should use a hard drive more sensibly powerful than a Drobo (USB hard drive) for the “middle” drive. By the way, if you are making your camera takes on this equipment and need the best reliability, why not build 2 RAID 0 recorders instead of one RAID 5 type just in case almost anything fails? Fred Jodry
(The speed of internal versus external storage arrays is according to the actual hardware). -
(My comment below Bob`s).
Re: Portable drive advice
by Bob Zelin on Mar 21, 2012 at 7:47:01 pmbubble wrap.
Any drive – even a bare drive with no case – will survive a FedEx small box, as long as you bubble wrap it.Bob Zelin
-but first wrap the hard drive in aluminum foil to prevent static electricity generation. Fred Jodry -
Eric, make what`s wanted by the viewers, listenners (some people just listen and don`t bother watching the pictures), and customers. Do, make, everything that you have to. Find, adapt, or write the story. Find the people, props, and locations. Use a good camera or cameras and microphone. Make a live feed and an edited version too. Market and distribute it yourself. Make the advertising magazine plates and radio ads. Pay your talent and gaffers yourself. If you don`t have enough money for this, just make a different production before it. Fred Jodry