That has to be the hardest purchase of all today for a post house: a $100k TAPE machine...
In the short-form world, I have not gone to tape with anything (unless the post house was asked to do it after the fact...I don't know about it) in well over a year. With the ability to to send a file via Fast Channel or something like that, there really is no need. And with the file based work, it keeps more billable hours in my shop and out of post houses that have the "big iron" that used to be needed for ingest and output. I can even budget and bill for file conversion time. Good for the smaller shop, not so good for post houses. There still is time in each of my budgets (for broadcast) for a post facility (color, sound design, QC, fx, etc.) but that has been drastically reduced in the past 36 months. I am really glad to be out of that side of the industry.
As far as tape being a way to get to know your footage better, I disagree. I still look at and sub-clip every shot, file or tape. Those old habits stick with me and I preach them to any younger editor I am teaching or training.
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--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <markraudonis@...> wrote:
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> Who want's to buy Sony SR 5500's at almost $100K a pop? Not me!
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> We're already delivering digitally to two of the networks we work with. These are 75gig files of masters. But... here's the rub: They STILL want a tape back up!!!! So, until everyone totally goes tapeless, we're stuck making dubs.
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> Until someone cracks the "archive media" issues (Faster/better/cheaper AND more durable than Videotape), we'll be stuck with tape for the foreseeable future.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@> wrote:
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> > > Steve Pomerantz wrote:
> > > We still output everything to tape for delivery
> > > to the networks.. usually HDcamSR.
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> > That, too, will soon go away. There are already networks accepting file-based delivery. Many have already adopted that internally if not for outside suppliers. This trend will continue, because the network bean-counters will increasingly refuse to cough up the cash to repair/replace dying decks. Especially if they get used less and less in daily operations.
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> > - Oliver
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