[Joel Perez irizarry]

Thanks for your response,

“Shane Ross: Then don’t. RENT. Rental of a digibeta deck for a day is very cheap. Or have them capture it at a post house that has FCP…”

Our Buisness is based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Here there’s only a three post houses with Digi Beta decks and none of them rent them 🙁

“Shane Ross This is fine. If the post facility doing the telecine has FCP and can capture it to a drive, you can do that. Use the drive to transport the cut to your system, copy it to the RAID, and edit at full 10-bit res.”

I can’t do this since I need to do a unsupervised transfer for the off line, and I can do a supervised transfer for only a few selected takes. This is due to our budget limitations. We do the transfer in The Mill NY. They charge 1500 an hour for the transfer. So I need a workflow where I can edit with an usupervised transfer and then conform the supervised transfer.

“Shane Ross: This is fine. If the post facility doing the telecine has FCP and can capture it to a drive, you can do that. Use the drive to transport the cut to your system, copy it to the RAID, and edit at full 10-bit res.”

Most of the post facilities we work with don’t have a FCP system. They mostly use Avid DV or Discreet Smoke. I was still hoping that they’ll be able to give me a hard drive with an 10 bit uncompressed Quicktime, which I think most of them will be able to do.

My question is more related to the off-lien/on-line workflow. How do I media manage data instead of tape? Can I use the EDL I generated with the off-line, to conform the supervised transfer?

[Joel Perez irizarry]

Thanks for your advice. But here’s the thing, one of the reasons we do the conforming in another post house using the Smoke is because we don’t have a Digi Beta VTR, and we’re afraid to invest in any non HD technology. We do have a Kona 3 and a SATA RAID, wich I belive it can easily handle uncompressed sd and DVCPRO HD.

I was hoping to transfer to a Hard Drive, so I can conform in SD 10 Bit Uncompressed using our off line FCP system. I won’t need to color correct, since we transfer daylies (wich I use for the off line) and then we do a supervised transfer of the takes we already selected in the off-line. But my main concern is: Can I media manage the cut I did with the dalylies, and then capture the files from the supervised? I guess the answer is yes, that the timecodes will match. But what about video data from a Hard Drive instead of tape, does that data have a timecode? If not do, you know how to media manage that or I have to cut it again?

[Joel Perez irizarry]

Thanks a lot. You guys are the best! 10 Bit worked fine. Next time I’ll try DV50 to see how it looks.

[Joel Perez irizarry]

Thanks for your rapid response. What system do I need for HD Uncompressed? Can I use the hard drives I have in another system to make them faster?