Re: [Avid-L2] Uncompressed or Compressed That is the Question?

From my experience, the online guys don't want 1:1. They want either 175X
or 220X. 1:1 won't even capture onto our ISIS (1Gb ethernet).

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com>wrote:

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> Sounds like someone who just wants to have a bigger d*ck than you. "I
> never edit compressed and I drive a Porsche"
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> With the exception of spot work and feature film DI, I can't see
> uncompressed HD as being that critical. I mean, if someone wants to pay the
> premium for it, that's awesome. Otherwise, why? Especially with a strong
> codec at a decent bandwidth... and ESPECIALLY since most of the crap that
> gets thrown at us is coming from highly compressed SOURCES to begin with.
> What's the point of taking 35 MegsPerSecond XDCAM up to uncompressed? Or P2?
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
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> On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:36 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
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> > Uncompressed or Compressed That is the Question?
> > I was recently told by a Post Supervisor that he had always worked
> uncompressed on his shows. My experience primarily in Avid is everyone
> works in DNX in HD which is compressed but a strong codec. In FCP I thought
> Prores was the codec of choice kinda the DNX of the Final Cut world. For
> short pieces I can see how uncompressed would be viable. In SD I always do
> 1:1 uncompressed but never in HD for my hour long projects and series.
> Beside overall drive space doesn't uncompressed put a heavy tax on
> bandwidth even if the actual processing of the data is more efficient the
> amount of sheer data seems problematic on a large series scale. Curious
> what others think.
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