Steve Wargo
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We’ve done this for years but we put the lenses right NEXT to each other and make sure the cameras are 16 feet or more away from the talent. Of course, they look at the close up camera.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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I am watching a great NASCAR race and hitting the Cow during the breaks so my attention is not quite there.
OK. It’s over. Gordon won.
So here is my actual reply. When we get jobs like this, we hire a knowledgable student to do the ingest with the director sitting with them, if possible. During ingest is the time for the director to pick his selects and it’s surprising how many shots they will suddenly find unnecessary. However, no director wants to sit in an edit bay for 4-5 weeks.
Why a student? They need practical experience in the real world. They need to understand more about the shooting experience. These are not beginner students, but rather those who are close to becoming editors. They can also stay on and do the rough cut if budget is a consideration. Some have gone on to complete the project.
As far as charges, the student gets $8-10 an hour, the edit system goes for $25 to $50 per hour and the tape decks go from $50 per day (dv) to $600 per day (hdcam). To digitize 200 hours, we would put the cost of digitizing at around $8050 and discount it to $7000 if we were also cutting the doc or $7500 if it were going elsewhere. This is considering that the student is going to run a log of the footage at the time of ingest. If the director just wants to dump it all in so he can figure it out later, we might consider a price of around $22 per tape on their drives. This would be $4400.
Keep in mind that if you digitize all of this footage for $3000, you will be working for $15 per hour. If you also do the edit at about another hundred hours, you are now working for under $10 per hour including all of your equipment, electricity, wear and tear, your workspace, your freedom, and time that could be spent seeking a job that pays better.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Sorry about that. I meant to say “Have the director bring a 2.5Tb raid”.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Have the director bring a 1 Terabyte drive to your place for you to digitize to.
About 11 years ago, one of my clients heard about computerized editing (Avid) and asked me to digitize all of their footage (around the same 200 hours) so thay could all have it on their desktop. An associate of ours had an Avid and he gave me a bid of $315,000. The client went ballistic and fired me. A week or so later, they called to apologize. They actually thought it would all fit on a 1.4Mb floppy.
We have strict rules on how much space for how long. If it’s a long term program that will take some time, we usually put th client’s footage on an isolated external drive.
When necessary, we rent hard drive space. It goes for $1 per gig per week. Billed bi-weekly.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Go buy yourself a tape deck. There’s no excuse when you can get one for $1000. Why destroy your camera?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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I got a reply back from Mr Moncrief (West Wing) and he is on a cruise and will get with us upon his return
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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And there you have it. Thanks Juan!!!
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Kind of seems like one would want to put a huge silk over everything and then blow broad spots through it. I tried to say this in non-technical terms.
I do have a friend who worked on “Wing”. I’ll see if I can get him to chime in.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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“Call me anything. Just don’t call me late for dinner”.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Alexander,
I was thinking more of your dealer than the manufacturer. I buy from BandPro and Michael bravin & Jeff Cree have ALL of the answers. Fletcher’s is the same. If you somehow bought straight from Sony than I guess you won’t have that front line of support. That’s why we buy from dealers.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!