i had originally asked our consultants about Ref files since we are on a SAN and their was a redounding NO from them and post supervisors.
as for frame rate, we are encoding at 15 FPS for smaller file size, the plan starting in the next week is to change that to 24fps in encoding as that will be our editing timebase.
Mike Daniels
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