Mark Raudonis
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Consider it an “audition”. If you were trying out for the symphony orchestra, they’d ask you to stand up and play. If you were up for a role in a film, they’d ask you to read a scene. If you’re trying out for the football team, you’re going to run some plays. I don’t care if you’re a rookie or a veteran. Sometimes you’ve got to prove yourself.
I NEVER hire someone without seeing what they can do behind the keyboard. Plenty of people can talk a good game, but in thirty seconds I can tell if they know what they’re doing with an NLE.
By the way, these “auditions” last no more than a half hour. Anything longer than that and somebody’s just trying to get free work out of you. The “Audition” is more like a flight instructor checking out a pilot. Do you know how to multi clip? Check. Digitize? Check. Chromakey? Check. OK. Both engines have flamed out and you’re going down. How do you recover a project from the attic? Oh… I’m sorry… you’re dead!
You can establish technical skill level easily. Creative accomplishment is more difficult and for than I rely on references, credits and reputation.
mark
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Every network that we deliver to STILL expects a videoTAPE master. Usually HDCAMsr or HDCAM. Some (up until last year) still wanted an SD Betacam copy.
I will also add: Every network that we deliver to now accepts a DIGITAL file but they haven’t eliminated the tape requirement. So there we are. Stuck in the middle with a tape requirement AND a digital file requirement. Can’t quite get rid of the tape machines… but they’re getting less and less use as time moves on.
I call our machine room the museum of ancient tape formats.
Mark
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https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/cat-oledmonitors/product-PVM2541/
MSRP is $6,100 but they can be had for less.
We’ve got a bunch of these. I really like them!
mark
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ISIS 5000: Limit of 90 connected clients. 7000= limited only by the bandwidth of your switches.
We have 3 ISIS 5000’s. You’re probably wondering why we didn’t go with the 7000. Real estate and geography were part of the decision. We’re located in two different buildings across a wide boulevard.
Interconnectivity between the buildings was limited until we sprang for 10gig fibre under the street.
With that in place, anyone on the company intranet can access ISIS 1, 2 , or 3. So… my suggestion would
be the isis 5000 is a great building block and you won’t be penalized if you have to grow beyond the 90 seats or storage capacity limit. There is an advantage to having separate systems located in different buildings but interconnected. Example: load full rez media on ISIs 1 in building 1, but store original media (Discs, chips etc) in other building. Instant redundancy in the event of fire, earthquake, etc.Deciding between the two is really up to your own specific requirements. Coming from an X-SAN install, I can say I LOVE the sys admin controls… very nice.
Good luck.
Mark
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You want your cake and eat it too. Ain’t gonna happen. Either you buy a “fat pipe”, accept the slow delivery, or accept crappy quality. There is no “magical” solution . Broadcast quality? Pro res lt I’d about as low as you get.
Mark
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Update: Switched a setting that was bogging it down. Works great now!
Mark
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Update: I found a setting that fixed it. The card was set to “create conversion” live, and
apparently that was killing the avid. Switched it off, and works great!Mark
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” why take us all to moron town?”
That made me laugh!
Mark
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[rand courtney] “Clueless…”
Signing off as “clueless” is like dangling a frozen chicken over a swamp full of alligators…
Yes, I’ll bite!
Did you even bother to try searching this forum? That topic comes up on a weekly basis. Look up. See that box that says, “Search”? Type “sharing media” into it. See what happens. Report back to us what you learn.
Mark
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Alan,
In your first post you mentioned you were using PRo res HQ. THat’s a huge file. Try changing your
sequence setting to plain old prores (NOT hq). That will yield a much more manageble file.Try that.
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