[Shawn Whiting]

awesome post Gord, really helped me a lot. But it gave me a few more questions.

if im ending up on DVD and the web for my project, is there a reason to shoot 1080? or would 720 be fine? also, what are the differences between shooting intermittent or progressive in either mode? would progressive be a better option, as it seems you prefer it.

also i didn’t understand what offline footage means in respect to PPro, as the inverse, what is online footage in PPro?
“5) Offline footage in PPro, import sequence into AE for online”

Thanks so much!

– Shawn

[Shawn Whiting]

Yeah that would be ideal, but i dont have the money to hire anyone else. Ive shot many films and videos before and had a sound team or run sound, but im still a bit shaky on what types of microphones are best in what situations. If anyone could lay that out for me it would be very helpful.

Also still need to figure out some sort of solution to my problem, i think i may just have to compromise the walk and talk for a wired lav and just have the person stand in front of their lab rather than walk us through it.

let me know what you think. Thanks!

– Shawn

[Shawn Whiting]

basically here are my main considerations.

– This will be a long project, months of shooting

– I will be doing some color correction and motion graphics in post

– I need to be able to store and backup whatever file types i end up editing in hopefully in under 4TB of space. As i think i can only add 2 more Hard drives to my PC on top of the 2TB storage i already have.

Ive read a bit about using “proxies” or down converting to SD to edit, although i dont understand this process well at all. Then also about transcoding footage to a file type that is easier to scrub through and edit with, especially if your considering color correction or effects. However it seems transcoding creates much larger files, which im not sure i would be able to store considering i may have 20+ hours of footage from this project. Im also still not clear on if you export having worked off the transcoded file all along and thats it, or if you revert back to the pre-transcoded file before export?

Someone also mentioned shooting in lower bit rates to save on space and editing troubles. Im not very tech savy on how exactly bit rates translate into quality, but would this also be an option to save space?

– Shawn