Scott Davis
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Thanks guys. I’m not sure what format we will be working with. I think DV; so we should be ok. How does a setup like this handle DVCPRO HD ?
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Hi Charles, sorry so long to get back to you. My problem was (I captured footage on Avid DS as uncompressed SD, exported a QT file, and then took that into Squeeze) was that when I brought the compressed program stream file into DVDSP in said it was an unsoported format. Where the elementary file was fine. So I was curious as to the difference.
Scott Davis
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Thanks Alan.
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6 hours of what? DV, HD, uncompressed? You basically have three options. SCSI, Fibre Channel or SATA. SCSI and FC are the most dependable and expensive. SATA is up to the task and much cheaper; but has no redundancy.
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You’re lookinng at a little over 2Tb just to dig 150 hours of DV footage alone. This doesnt count renders, graphics, music, etc. I would get at least 3Tb. If you are allright with not having redundancy; then I would go with external SATA drives. Take a look at Sonnet’s offerings. Best situation would be a FibreChannel RAID of SCSI RAID; but you’re looking at a sizeable jump in cost from the SATA solution.
Scott Davis
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No it doesnt but you could get there SDI to component D/A.
Scott Davis
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Hi Alan, I’ve never had an agent. To be honest I’ve never thought about it. Is their payment based strictly on them getting you work? Do you think it would be usefull in a smaller market than LA? I’m in Denver and it can be really tough to keep work steady.
Scott Davis
Scott Davis
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I believe it also works on the current G5’s so if they have the software out before the hardware it might ease the adoption by the pro community of the intel desktops. Just an idle speculation.
Scott Davis
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I’ll take a stab at this. The color space is primarily detemined by the format shot. DV25 is 4:1:1/ DV50 and DV100 is 4:2:2. When going from an anlog source such as Beta to a digial one you have the option of diging using a DV coded thus 4:1:1 or you can go with a codec that has a larger colour space. In fact you could dig a 4:1:1 format using a coded with a larger color space. I am not sure what the Avid codecs use for a color space. I would guese that their “DV” codec is 4:1:1 and their uncompressed is 4:2:2
Scott Davis
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I agree with all of the above. One film I’ve seen recently with horrible “pacing” is King Kong. The whole scene where they are trying to outrun the dinosaurs down that gulley is cut fast and action packed but its so freaking boring. What in gods name does that have to do with the story? This whole movie exemplifies one of my new and growing beefs with a lot of movies. The pacing of the story is so scattershot and treated as an afterthought so they can cram in more of this inane action. The 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies are the same. Those fight scenes bored me to tears. Nothing happened and nothing changed. Good pacing/editing would have cut that crap down to a minimum. By the time you sit through a 10 minute overstylized fight scene you forget why your even watching this damn movie. A friend of mine talks about finding “the emotional line” within what you are editing. I think good pacing is when you dont stray to far from this “emotional line”.
Scott Davis