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

You just pinpointed the main problem I have with digital delivery.

Laying off to tape used to be the last chance to watch the master through, catch
any errors, and pickup the edit after fixing them.

When I deliver digitally it's all copying files so you have to spend time
beforehand watching everything to make sure it's all good.

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From: johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, December 17, 2010 5:07:01 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: The "tape is dead" thread

Then I want a file based deck. Something I can control from the edit bay, feed
it an SDI signal and be able to pick up along the way if I catch an error. I
haven't worked in an ISIS, Interplay environment but maybe some of this
functionality is there. I'm under the impression you take a completed sequence
and ship it of to the playback server thingy when done but it doesn't sound like
you can watch it as it goes off to the server. I just don't like surprises but
I guess I'll just have to go with the flow, work flow that is, when a file based
delivery comes my way.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@...> wrote:
>
> > Steve Pomerantz wrote:
> > We still output everything to tape for delivery
> > to the networks.. usually HDcamSR.
>
> 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.
>
> - Oliver
>

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