Rich Rubasch
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Anyone out there who IS converting to a standard codec (like ProRes) and having success editing with that codec? If we go Premier I want to have a tried and true workflow in place with our older MacPros. Editing native is not the option I want.
Can the Media Browser be told to convert the native footage files to a different editing codec like in FCP Log and Transfer? If so I would guess ProRes should work as good as it did in FCP on the same machine.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Call the VFX company, ask them, and report back!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
We use a JBOD drive box with four drive sleds and four SATA cnnectors on the back. Four computers get a connection so they can read/write to backup drives. We buy bare drives and have them in cases. We copy project files and media to the drives. Projects range from 50gigs to 500 gigs. A 2 terabyte drive costs about $130 US. A 500 gig project would only cost about $33 bucks for the entire backup (I also do a backup of the 2 terabyte as a double backup) so it’s up to $66. If I bill 1/2 hour of editing time it more than makes up the cost of the drives I have.
I don’t line item backups…I just do them. Clients love the quick turn we have on revisions…load the drive, make the fix, send the file. Awesome.
I use DiscCatalogMaker on the Mac to catalog all the drives so everything is searchable.
Works great.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I think a lot depends on what your client’s needs are. We do have plenty of clients with Betacam sources. We upload from them once in a while. In our setup, all our machines have Kona cards and are hooked to the Blackmagic Studio Hub. All decks and other sources are connected and routable. So for us it doesn’t matter what the system is…it gets put on the router and it has access to all the decks.
Not taking them out until I close down shop!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
We too recently received the “Best of Madison NY” award. But we are in Wisconsin.
I didn’t return an email.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Scary thing for us is we are all still Snow Leopard and cautious to move headlong into Lion (then Mountain Lion?). What is the future of the MacOS and how it relates to these high end editing packages? How about plug ins? Compatibility?
I have 6 MacPro systems with Kona cards all running Snow Leopard and FCP 7. Dangerous waters ahead….
But I’m an old AVID guy so it is tempting to go back to my roots…assuming they will be around for a while.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I suggest you find a reputable agency in your area who covers production companies. Ours here in Madison WI was M3 insurance and originally we went thru the Hartford, but now are with Travelers and they have been great.
I pay about $4500 annually for business and worker’s comp. We own our building and have 5 employees.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
40mbps is pretty high….I’ll bet if you encode one at 10mbps you won’t tell the difference between the two…but the 10mbps will actually play.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
It was the client…then the brazen CFO came in and started asking his own questions….then the COO came in over his shoulder and said they might try it this way….and so on.
We got such a jumbled mess of sound bites that we didn’t make a compelling video….but we did it with their budget (which didn’t include a director).
We saw the questions in advance, we had a DP, Gaffer sound and makeup…then the client did their best to ask the questions and make the guy (their co-worker) feel comfortable and answer the questions….they just didn’t know exactly how to make sure we got good stuff that would work in edit.
Then there is the fact that they thought they knew what the purpose of the video would be, but that changed after they saw the interview.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
According to Apple, there is a little “Pro” in all of us. So the fact that it says “Pro” just means it’s for everyone.
Except me.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com