Melvin Chong
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Makes more sense to record straight from the camera output to the video recorder in ProRes and start with a high quality source. I personally don’t see the rationale converting a low quality codec like h.264 to a high quality one like ProRes. No one converts MP3s to lossless for ProTools sweetening so why do the same for video ?
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Best way is to record to a editable format like ProRes using Atmos or Blackmagic Design recorders. File size will be much bigger but you have a much higher quality source and less choppy editing experience. They are also easier to color grade and add effects.
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A $30 solution to your problem.
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/
Probably won’t worked on Mac raid drives.
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LTFS is widely adopted by the industry and if such software exists it could work well with many media asset management auto- tiering solutions.
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FCPX is a completely different beast to Vegas. It is basically a media asset management with a built-in NLE. You will need to unlearn to your conventional ways of editing in Vegas. I suggest staying with Vegas. Just get the best gaming laptop you can afford, add NVMe flash memory and top up the ram to at least 32Gb. Something like the Acer Helio 300 would be a good starting point. It’s not light but is packed with power.
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LTO seems like a oligopoly to keep IBM, Quantum and HP in full control and to prevent competition. Sony used to have the AIT which I have seen working beautifully with FCP7, though a pity it didn’t caught on. In LTO case, as a tape medium, I can never understand why the drives should be so bloody expensive even after so many years.
I just hope somebody will write a backup software that can write to 50 Gb Blu-ray using LTFS one day.
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SSD needs extra space for overprovisioning. In other words, with a 1Tb SSD it is better to format to 800Gb, so it has 20% of space for overprovisioning and garbage collection. If you didn’t do so, eventually your SSD will grind to a halt as it has no space left for those functions.
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Perhaps you can add him as a friend on Facebook and take it from there ? ????
https://www.facebook.com/anthonyartis
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This chap is really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnik-YjN_pg&list=PL26pr4T7OzVO8Ih-a27bcx8e-1fVTZ_fK
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Cloud is not designed for high-bandwidth realtime video work for the common man who is running his own business. It’s possible to have high bandwidth file delivery but you gotta pay a lot for it from companies like Signiant or Aspera. Their services are used mainly by broadcasters. You might want to check them out if cost is not a concern.
However, I will suggest the following :
1. Get your client to convert those high-res files to low-res proxies and have him upload to cloud (Google. Dropox, etc). Have him ship you a copy of all the original high-res media on a portable HDD.
2. Download those proxies to your NLE and edit from there while waiting for the portable HDD so no time is wasted.
3. When the external drive arrive, copy those high-res media to your NLE (hopefully on a dedicated raid media drive) and relink them for grading, effects and output.
5. Render the final output. Zip that rendered file with encryption and upload to the cloud if it is not too big. Or copy the encrypted zipped file onto a flash-drive and ship it to your client.