[Joe Kaczorowski]

Tom,

I am wondering when this discovery option was built into the cache-A appliance? I have recently been trying to develop workflow for my company to make deliverables to Discovery and trying to figure out what equipment to buy. I rented a Pro Cache LTO deck and found it clunky to use at best. I was very disappointed in the connectivity of the drive to the machine and the graphical user interface of the software.

I am under the impression that Cache-A has some of the best stuff out there and have to believe that what I was using was hopefully just out dated? Would you be able to point me in the direction to find more information on seeing how this workflow actually works? I would love to speak to someone in more detail in regards to our specific workflows and needs and how cache-A could help with that?

Thank you very much for your time,
Joe

[Joe Kaczorowski]

I just came across this thread, about a year late… but I’m wondering if anyone can offer insight to how you, after determining their need, convey that too them without sounding like you’re putting them down. You obviously don’t want to come across as telling them you’re better at “X” than them, but at the same time you do because then they will pay you to do “X”. Thoughts?

[Joe Kaczorowski]

Thanks so much guys, I appreciate it. I agree with you 100 percent about the ending. We had planned to reshoot that, but with everyone working full time jobs, my wife 9 months pregnant, and the deadline approaching we did not have time. Good lesson for next time, always keep time for reshoots!

-Joe

[Joe Kaczorowski]

Greg,

I also went to Columbia College Hollywood for my degree… i have looked back wondering if i couldn’t have spent more time networking there. I basically coasted through because i had a decent job (as a runner at ignition creative) I worked while i was in school, i did just enough to graduate and when i did graduate it didn’t change my life at all. While in school i worked my way up and when i graduated i was well on my way to editing for motion picture advertising. I will keep all of my opinions on that school to myself and just try and offer you some advice.

1. you’re reel, or anybody else’s no matter how good it is (unless you have trailers) will not do you any good getting a job at Trailer Park.

2. Trailer Park is one of the Big Guns… go to LA411.com … look at the other motion picture advertising companies… find a smaller company and go there first.

3. Be willing to start as a runner. I don’t know how much you need to be making but you can easily get an entry level job at one of those places making 25k a year. From there, work every weekend and night cutting spots… if they see you can finish spots they will promote you.

4. Don’t hold out for trailers… my editing is mostly in Home Ent. TV Spots. But doing those easily pays as much if not double the 60k for Columbia’s “education” every year.

5. The best trailer editors are the ones that have been doing it for decades… as new college graduates (i graduated in 2005) we are the new guns… we can’t expect to get those jobs yet. we have to be runners and tape ops and assistants and bottom feeder editors first… but we can do those things and still make enough to pay off school and buy an awesome loft on the westside of los angeles.

Best of luck man,
Joe

[Joe Kaczorowski]

Two questions…

Discovery’s Gold Bronze and Silver…. someone said that you needed a 2.2mil sensor to qualify for Gold? Isn’t that really a new development anyway? so wouldn’t it make sense they they change their standards on a regular basis. When the newest technology comes out will they want 3mil chips instead of 2.2 and will the new 3mil chips offer all the other bells and whistles right out of the box either? Just wondering.

1080psf someone said something about 1080 never displays more than 540 lines interlaced? can someone explain to me what 1080p is then? i’ve never heard of “psf”

Sorry for my ignorance i’ve been at the prosumer level for a while and spending most of my time editing. I would be happy to be able to afford one 20k camera let alone a 65k.

Thank you all so much, the swelling in my brain from reading this entire thread will hopefully go down sometime next week.

-Joe

[Joe Kaczorowski]

I am determining it is too dark by looking at the quicktime versus what i see in the avid (on the same monitor) I am fairly certain it was imported at 601 by our assistants. We have tried exporting and outputing at 601 and RGB and see no difference. The picture is still way darker than in the avid. Also when i output to tape and check it through a waveform monitor i can see the black levels drop way below 7.5 IRE. This isn’t as big a deal because we can adjust it easily on an anolog output but i can’t figure out a way other than putting a color effect on it in avid to make the quicktimes come out brighter.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Joe Kaczorowski]

the attic should be on the drive the project is on regardless of where the program is located.

[Joe Kaczorowski]

PS. Thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it.

[Joe Kaczorowski]

So basically if i want to retranscode at a higher bitrate, i will need to reimport, retranscode, redo chapters, and re link it appropriately?

Serves me right for not bit budgeting correctly in the first place.

Thanks,
-Joe

[Joe Kaczorowski]

I am using version 1.5.

I will adjust the audio levels seperately.

Thanks,

-Joe