[Tony Stampalia]

Hey, Mark. Let’s do lunch.

[Tony Stampalia]

David,

I’ve set up many RAIDS on servers connected to clients who were pulling from databases and data from shared directories. Plus, all the server RAID used hardware (like all available for FCP) to manage the array.

And my Avid is not set up with RAID, but it’s not doing HD. So, what I’m seeing is how critical it is for HD throughput to be maximized during reads with FCP.

Therefore, what I think you’re saying is IOs per second for random loads, and MB per second for sequential loads – IOPS and MBPS – are effected by the number of spindles, and secondarily the controller and cache.

It’s a matter of translating a lot of PC knowledge to Macs, and that’s the heart of my concern. RAID is RAID regardless the OS. That’s the bottom line.

Thanks.

[Tony Stampalia]

Hey, Rocco.

I’ve shot and edited many, many Docs. Keeping in mind there are no rules, I find scripting VO prior to shooting anything else pulls the piece together. I don’t record VO until the end.

This is especially true in narrator-heavy docs. Maybe a Doc using VO as links wouldn’t have to be scripted prior.

Done it both ways, but experience taught me to script VO before shooting. And this method doesn’t get in the way of Docs becoming organic – taking surprising turns – as they almost always seem to do. When a film takes an unexpected turn the VO can be re-written to suit the piece then recorded.

[Tony Stampalia]

I recently re-watched “Unfaithful” edited by the extraordinary Anne Coates. I found a few edits to be what I call ‘self-conscious’, i.e. calling attention to themselves, jumpy, unmotivated instead of adding to the rhythm and flow of the film.

I can say the same for a few edits in “The Departed” edited by Thelma Schoonmaker.

[Tony Stampalia]

Hey, Jon.

Yeah, you’ve nailed the illustrative and cosmetic reasons for inserting B. The bottom line is when it feels right and enhances the piece rather than distracting.

You mentioned ‘The Speaker’. Are you asking about cutaways in a narrative or documentary?

In a Doc clarity generally tops the list. So B should be inserted just as you said.

Narratives offer a lot more flavor due to Diegesis – simply the telling of a story by a narrator. Parts of a film can either be diegetic or non-diegetic. Mostly applying to sound, it can also apply to inserts that depict something that is not taking place in the world of the film (a non-diegetic insert). Titles, subtitles, and voice-over narration (with some exceptions) are also non-diegetic.

Here’s an example: In “The Truman Show,” while Truman sleeps soothing music plays, as is common in such scenes. However, after cutting to the control room, we see that the mood music is being played by Philip Glass standing at a bank of keyboards. The shift is from apparently non-diegetic to diegetic, and is a joke.

Whew! Aren’t you glad you asked?

[Tony Stampalia]

Thanks David.

I reposted saying I dug deeper and found some info on drives. The repost wasn’t put up.

What I find quizzical in your response is why an external array needs to be preferably 6-8 drives. In other words, if you have an 8 Bay chassis with 8-500GB drives, how is that different to Mac/FCP than a chassis with 4-1TB drives. Assuming, of course, they’re both RAID 5.