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“Dude, I’m not recommending that it be done with copying to the HD”
Sorry, I must have misread this…
“I use the Copy function on Toast all the time, in which is automatically copies the DVD to the HD”
Steve Brame
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Sounds like Toast would be doing the same thing that you could do yourself…simply copying the DVD folder to your hard drive, burning your DVD’s, then deleting the DVD folder when done. It could be no faster using Toast to accomplish this, as Toast doesn’t actually do the work, it simply tells the OS to do the copying and deleting. The burning could be done with a free tool like ImgBurn.
If you REALLY want to shorten the time spent, look at a duplicator with a higher disc ratio.
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Correct…if using a computer there would be no need for a 2nd DVD drive. Still, even if you did want to go that route, a DVD burner cost much, much less than a duplicator.
Steve Brame
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A ‘1 to 1 duplicator’ will be no faster than a computer, or at least the difference in speed certainly won’t offset the cost of the duplicator. Mainly the only advantage you’ll get is that it doesn’t require a computer, but if you DO have a computer with a DVD burner, why not use it?
That being said, we use Microboards duplicators, and have been very happy with them. They even make a 1 to 1 model.
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Oh…and I don’t have to guess what you did to purge your media in Avid. I too came from Media Composer to Premiere Pro, and fully understand the ‘intricacies’ of media management in Avid. Premiere Pro is 100 times simpler…or more!
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Premiere Pro is very flexible in this aspect, allowing you to place project media anywhere you’d like. Of course there are certain guidelines you should follow as to where you SHOULD keep your media files in order to streamline your system’s ability to handle it all, and there are a few thousand posts on here and elsewhere that can help you in that realm.
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“won’t it be necessary, in an editor (eg. Premiere), to have, at one point, all the footage on a single timeline?”
Perhaps…but that will simply to allow you to provide a final output as one single file, which may or may not be necessary – and that would generally be done only after all of the logical pieces have been completed as separate entities.
My point is that if there are serious budgetary concerns that may limit the magnitude of the editing machine you can build(or buy), then you may not need to think in terms of the length of the full program, but only on the lengths of the contiguous pieces. Editing 100 minutes of footage on a single timeline for several months would take much more computer power than editing twenty separate ‘five minute scenes’ for several months, then piecing them all together on a single timeline for a final output.
At any rate, it would be a rarity for a ‘feature film’ to be edited, composited and graded on a single machine.
Steve Brame
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No problem. I was just responding to the ‘feature film’ aspect. The only ‘physical’ difference between a ‘feature film’ and a 10 minute corporate video is the program length. A computer that can easily handle the corporate piece, should also be able to handle a feature film – IF the editor breaks the film into a logical structure. If you want to color correct a full 100 minute timeline, then you’ll need a monster machine. A 5 minute scene would be no issue. The same for twenty ‘5 minutes scenes’.
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“But After Effects is used for finishing, conforming, color correction, compositing, effects, and graphics work on many, many feature films.”
Of course it is…but not all 80-210 minutes of footage in one comp…at least it shouldn’t be! Nor should all 80-210 minutes of a feature film be on a single working timeline in an editor. While a massively constructed computer may be needed to work with such a large timeline, or comp, a much lesser one such as mine would similarly have no problem at all if the work was broken into several logical pieces, as should be the norm.
Bottom line – build the best you can, and then try to go beyond that if possible. The more powerful the machine, the happier you’ll be. It’s a logarithmic scale…
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions