Re: [Avid-L2] Re: The "tape is dead" thread

Now, they are bringing in in harddrives saying "it's all digitized!" Yeah, but in who knows what codec, from what camera, with how many files with duplicate names, because their camera starts every shoot with something like A000001.MOV

Donnie Rogers
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On Dec 18, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Chuck Reti wrote:

>
> On Dec 17, 2010, at Dec 17 6:43 PM, Nick Hrycyk wrote:
>
> > ...digitizing the footage is often our first chance to see it and
> > take notes. Kinda hard to edit when you have no idea what the
> > footage looks like but the client says "we shot for 4 days and I'll
> > bring my drive over at 9 and we can be ready by 9:30, right!" Then
> > you ask for script notes and the answer is "huh"!
> >
> > Nick Hrycyk
>
> You do remember, Nick, when we had clients who would bring in tapes
> by the dozen on hand trucks and in shopping carts.
> That "huh?" answer applied to notes and timecode logs back then, too.
> Often prefaced by "oh, you're gonna hate me..." and later, "why is
> this taking so long?"
>
> Chuck Reti
> Detroit MI
>

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