Thursday, February 11, 2010

RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats

When you transfer footage onto XDCAM disks from an EX camera (EX1/3/1R), does the footage get squeezed back to 1440x1080 'thin raster' XDCAMHD or can it go to disk as the full-frame 1080i that the EX uses? Last time I checked the PDW-U1 could only do thin raster....

John McClary

--- On Tue, 2/9/10, Rupert Watson <rupert@root6.com> wrote:

From: Rupert Watson <rupert@root6.com>
Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 4:31 PM

 





Pete

You could shoot file based and use the Sony XDCAM disks as "tapes" to

archive to if you want. Sony call them ProDiscs if you use them like

that, but they sit on the shelf the same.

In that case you could use a NextoDI NVS2500 in the field, edit and lay

off what you want to keep on Sony Blu Ray ProDiscs.

Or you could get a Nanoflash and shoot CF cards which are nearly cheap

enough to be like tapes and keep the data on there all the time.

Rupert Watson

+447787554801

www.root6.com

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf

Of Peter Jay Gould

Sent: 09 February 2010 19:03

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com

Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats

I grew up on tape: shoot the tape, ingest the tape, throw the tape on a

shelf. Five years later if you need footage from a tape, throw it in a

deck, find the footage and away you go.

In a huge facility I see how cool it would be to take EVERYTHING off P2

cards or the equivalent, put them on an enormous server, and be able to

access them in perpetuity. But in my world where 5TB of online storage

is a

lot, I'm trying to come up with a workflow that works and offers the

relative safety of tape-based storage (yes, something can happen to the

tape, but typically it happens only to a short portion of the tape - if

a

hard drive fails, ALL the data is gone). And backing the drive up to

linear

data tape of some sort doesn't give you the ability to put that tape in

a

drive and VIEW the contents - it's just data files until you restore it

and

view it from the hard drive.

XDCAM discs seem to be the closest thing to the "tape" mindset: shoot

'em,

ingest 'em, put 'em on a shelf. There they are when you need something

six

months or a year later.

The alternative of P2 or other memory-chip- based acquisition, unless the

chips are inexpensive enough to serve as the permanent storage media, is

something I'm still trying to get my arms around.

Pete

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com <mailto:Avid- L2%40yahoogroups .com>

[mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com <mailto:Avid- L2%40yahoogroups .com> ] On

Behalf Of

Terence Curren

Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 6:40 PM

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com <mailto:Avid- L2%40yahoogroups .com>

Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Reality TV Formats

If you can, shoot either DVCPROHD or XDCAM Discs.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com <mailto:Avid- L2%40yahoogroups .com>

<mailto:Avid- L2%40yahoogroups .com> , "Peter

Jay Gould" <petegould@. ..> wrote:

>

> Hi All,

>

> I'm involved in a pitch for a reality tv show. Imagine something shot

in

> the style of COPS both in terms of acquisition and editorial approach

and

> also shoots that happen all over the country, multiple crews in

different

> locations, etc. An initial 26 episodes will be produced.

>

> What's the current consensus regarding a good HD acquisition format on

a

> direct-to-cable budget? Trying to steer them away from HDV although

it's

> being pushed for cost reasons.

>

> Pete

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