[Jeffrey Herzog]

Thanks for the quick response. No, I’m working in uncompressed all the time– always HD-SDI in/out. Its just that renting a D5 deck in Boston is actually a very difficult, expensive proposition, so I’m trying to figure out the most economical way of getting my finished sequence in the same physical studio space as a D5 deck. I wouldn’t lose anything in quality, I don’t think, by just creating a self contained uncompressed quicktime from uncompressed media. I just want to find out a way to have someone else carrying out the mastering process, dealing with things like the fact that the master needs to be drop frame, and fcp doesn’t allow drop frame in a 720p59.94 sequence, etc. Plus, I already need to have them do a teranex conversion to 1080i/dub to HDCAM– I figure might as well do one-stop shopping.

But, my question remains about a 500gb+ quicktime file.

Production Coordinator
New England Aquarium
Boston, MA