This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Trying to look at real costs with some file based media.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Trying to look at real costs with some file based media.

Maybe Avid needs to install a flux capacitor to process the refluxification
of the sequence.
But that would require a jigowatt of power.

Robert Alsop @
Red Truck
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----- Original Message -----
From: "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@pacbell.net>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 4:25 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Trying to look at real costs with some file based
media.

Too bad you didn't read the middle part where I quoted from my Thesis paper
on Refluxification costs. ;-) I agree there are situations where one or
the other format is advantageous. This appears not to be one of them for
file based. I like your comment, "It isn't better. It's different." What
I find is a common misconception that it's cheaper, that too depends on the
specifics of the project.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Curtis Nichols <curtisnpcs@...> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> After reading the first paragraph, I knew where this was going. So I
> skipped to the last line. Like I tell everyone about non-linear v linear:
> "It isn't better. It's different." Same statement applies to file-based
> production. Both sides have advantages and disadvantages. One or the other
> is sometimes faster or cheaper. But neither is better. What drives me
> crazy is a one-hour interview shot as a single file ("Nope, the file is
> still copying"), from which I will use two minutes. Most people do not
> consider the costs of copying, archiving, transcoding, exporting,
> transmogrifying and refluxification.
>
>
> Curtis Nichols
> Señor Editor
> PCS Production Co.
> Irving, Tx.
> ------------------
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: John Moore
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Trying to look at real costs with some file based
> media.
>
> On a project I'm involved with the decision was made to record the
> surveillance/pelco camera footage to hard drive rather than go to DVCPro50
> tape like they have in the past.
>
> I'm trying to be open minded but I'm hard pressed to see a good reason to
> go file based in this situation.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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